Turkish opposition leader blasts Erdogan over Israel
Turkish Opposition Leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu blasted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to downgrade relations with Israel, calling the decision 'pointless.' "No good can come of it and there is no need for us to risk our interest with petty actions," he told the Turkish news agency on Sunday.Indeed. But Erdogan and Davutoglu are too busy throwing a temper tantrum to notice.
Turkey's decision, which included expelling the Israeli ambassador to Ankara and suspending military contracts, was in response to the UN's Palmer Report, which it dubbed as biased.
Kilicdaroglu agreed with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that the Palmer Report was damaging to Turkey, but insisted that downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel would only work against Turkey.
Kilicdaroglu defined the UN-commissioned report on the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid as an "impediment" to Ankara, adding that he was more concerned with the overall tone implied by the report, which he said was "negative towards Turkey," and less with its overall conclusions.
"There was a Turkish delegate on the Palmer commission, but I guess his minority opinion was not expected," Kilicdaroglu said. "Turkey should have known this could happen. It you forge ahead without assessing the situation properly, you hit these kinds of walls. We have to find a way around this now."
The leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) has so far refrained from joining others in his government who were quick to bash Israel over the report.
By expelling the Israeli ambassador and downgrading the diplomatic relations between the two countries, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's has effectively painted himself into a corner, Kilicdaroglu explained.
"This is a blow to our foreign policy and no one wanted to see this happen. What's the use? Tomorrow Israel will claim that the UN has sided with it on the Gaza blockade. Who brought about the (raid's) results? The Marmara. We should have thought about that in advance. There was no need to risk Turkey's interests like that," he concluded.
Labels: Ahmet Davutoglu, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Mavi Marmara, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish obsession with Israel
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:16 PM
2 Comments:
Just makes you wonder what Hillary, Obama and their Code Pink posse said to these Turkish people. I think the Community Organizer In Chief has agitated for attacks on Israel and is agitating still in the Arab Spring, Libya, etc. So I bet these Turkish govt people thought that meant that they should organize and send the Flotilla and that the U.S. govt would stand behind them after they attacked the Jews. It's just so nauseating.
Do Erdogan blames Israel for the Palmer report he demanded???
LOL! He and his chronies really are like children.
Latma should have fun with this.
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