Turkey refuses U.S. mediation in crisis with Israel

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Turkey does not need United States’ mediation to solve a long-lasting crisis with Israel over a deadly 2010 flotilla raid, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday.

“We do not need mediation ... for Israel in any way,” Davutoglu said during a televised press conference in the central province of Konya when asked to comment on the possibility of the U.S. helping to resolve their differences.

“There is no such situation in which mediation is needed. The demands of Turkey are clear” if its former ally Israel wants to improve relations, Davutoglu said.

Turkey refuses U.S. mediation in crisis with Israel ? Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

 

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Turkey does not need United States’ mediation to solve a long-lasting crisis with Israel over a deadly 2010 flotilla raid, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday.

“We do not need mediation ... for Israel in any way,” Davutoglu said during a televised press conference in the central province of Konya when asked to comment on the possibility of the U.S. helping to resolve their differences.

“There is no such situation in which mediation is needed. The demands of Turkey are clear” if its former ally Israel wants to improve relations, Davutoglu said.

Turkey refuses U.S. mediation in crisis with Israel ? Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

It's not as though Erdogan hasn't been crystal clear.

He's been saying a lot for a long time. Now he's much quieter as he's doing.

CBC News Indepth: Turkey's Erdogan

In eight short years since taking the reins, though, he has moved Turkey from West to East, from NATO ally to Iranian ally, from close Israeli ties to support for terror groups seeking to break Israel’s blockade of Hamas.

Before Erdogan’s image was rehabilitated by many of the same people who insist that the GZM is a wonderful idea and that opposition to it is a form of racism, he did a four-month stretch in Turkish prison for inciting religious hatred. As the BBC reported, he had stoked
his fellow Islamists by reading a poem that proclaimed:

• The mosques are our barracks,
  
• The domes our helmets,
  
• The minarets our bayonets,
  
• And the faithful our soldiers.

Yes, by all means, let’s let Muslim Brotherhood-connected Islamists, who won’t condemn Hamas and won’t tell us where their money is coming from, build a mosque named for the caliphate that conquered Spain on the site where almost 3000 Americans were murdered by Islamist terrorists.

Mosques, Barracks and Bayonets - By Andrew C. McCarthy - The Corner - National Review Online