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Archiv: Türkei / Turkey
Türkiye leads joint call to UN Security Council to halt arms shipments to Israe
The letter, led by Türkiye‘s initiative, was signed by 52 countries and two international organizations, and submitted to the UN on Nov. 1, calling for a cessation of arms supplies to Israel.
“We must reiterate at every opportunity that selling weapons to Israel amounts to complicity in genocide,” Fidan said at a news conference in Djibouti, where he attended the third Ministerial Review Conference of Türkiye-Africa Partnership.
Erdoğan urges Arab League to impose arms embargo against Israel
(October 16, 2024)
The president told the Arab League chief that Israel is trying to spread the flames of conflict across the region as it aims to occupy Palestinian lands to leave them without a homeland.
He continued by saying that Türkiye continues its initiatives to hold Israel accountable for its crimes, as he highlighted the importance of an extensive arms embargo to increase pressure on Tel Aviv.
Mikati confers with Turkish Foreign Minister over current situation
Prime Minister Najib Mikati received a call today from Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan during which they discussed the current situation in Lebanon, especially on the humanitarian level and the relief for the families who were forced to be displaced from areas exposed to Israeli aggression.
During the call, Minister Fidan reiterated Turkey‘s readiness to support Lebanon in its humanitarian needs.
Fahrettin Altun: A shameful chapter for humanity is being written in Gaza
Fahrettin Altun, Head of Communications for the Turkish Presidency, expressed strong condemnation of the ongoing violence in Gaza, describing the situation as a „shameful chapter for humanity.“
In a statement shared via social media, Altun criticized the global silence in the face of what he labeled as genocide, calling for immediate international action.
Türkiye urges UN states to support Palestine‘s resolution in ‚pursuit of justice‘
„As a co-sponsor of resolution, introduced by Palestine, and a committed advocate for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) proceedings, Türkiye regards this session as both timely and essential,“ said Turkish envoy to the U.N. Ahmet Yıldız during an emergency UNGA session on the legal consequences of Israel‘s activities in occupied Palestinian territories.
„The resolution is not merely procedural; it is emblematic of a broader movement within the international community to rectify long-standing injustices,“ he said about the significance of the resolution.
Europäische und arabische Staaten dringen auf Zweistaatenlösung
An dem Treffen in der spanischen Hauptstadt nahmen der palästinensische Regierungschef Mohammed Mustafa, die Außenminister Katars, Saudi-Arabiens, Ägyptens und der Türkei sowie die Generalsekretäre der Arabischen Liga und der Organisation für Islamische Zusammenarbeit teil.
Die EU war durch ihren Außenbeauftragten Josep Borrell vertreten. Zudem nahmen die Außenminister Irlands, Norwegens, Sloweniens und Spaniens an den Gesprächen teil. Alle vier Länder hatten vor einigen Monaten offiziell einen eigenständigen palästinensischen Staat anerkannt.
Israel Just Killed Another American in the West Bank. Will the U.S. Ever Respond?
Earlier this year, two 17-year-old Palestinian Americans were killed in the West Bank: Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, a Louisiana native who was shot in January by an off-duty Israeli officer and a settler, and Mohammad Khdour, a high school senior from Florida who was shot in the head by an Israeli gunman several weeks later. In both cases, the U.S. government decried the killings but have yet to launch investigations.
Saif Sharabati, friend of activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi killed by Israel, recalls their last phone call
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Footage shows moments after American woman fatally shot in the West Bank
Eygi was a volunteer with the anti-occupation International Solidarity Movement. Witnesses and Palestinian officials said she was shot by Israeli troops.
Recent University of Washington graduate killed during protest in West Bank
UW Professor Aria Fani told KOMO News Eygi graduated from the university in June and said she had studied psychology and Middle Eastern languages and cultures. He described Eygi as kind-hearted and deeply curious.
“She had smiling eyes that just recognized the humanity of whoever she spoke with,” Fani said. “She had earned the admiration and respect of all of her peers and professors.”
Video released of first interrogation of suspected terrorist
The man also said that the curators, whom he supposedly does not know personally, had contacted him via Telegram messaging app, and arranged an arms cache for the assailants.
According to the suspect, he had been “listening to sermons… by a preacher” on Telegram for some time before being approached by the supposed masterminds of Friday’s attack “around a month ago.”
Simonjan veröffentlicht Videos der Terrorverdächtigen: Sie töteten für 500.000 Rubel
Aus dem aufgezeichneten Verhör geht hervor, dass alle vier Verdächtigen am 4. März aus der Türkei nach Russland eingereist sind. Einer von ihnen spricht gebrochenes Russisch, kann sich aber ohne Dolmetscher verständigen. Bei einem anderen wurde eine Dolmetscherin, offenbar für Tadschikisch, hinzugezogen. Die massenhafte Tötung von Menschen in der „Crocus City Hall“ am Freitagabend haben die Männer ohne Umschweife gestanden.
Einer der Vernommenen gab auf die Frage, warum er die Konzertbesucher ermordet hat, an, die Tat für Geld verübt zu haben. Als Summe nennt er 500.000 Rubel (etwa 5.000 Euro).
Public sitting held on Monday 26 February 2024, at 10 a.m., at the Peace Palace
60. In view of the foregoing arguments and recalling the relevant resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council, the Republic of Türkiye respectfully calls upon the nternational Court of Justice to declare the policies and practices of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, illegal under international law. Israel must also respect the historical status quo in the holy places in Jerusalem.
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The PRESIDENT: I thank the delegation of Zambia for its presentation. I invite the next participating delegation, the League of Arab States, to address the Court and I call Mr Abdel Hakim El Rifai to the podium.
Mr EL RIFAI:
1. Thank you, Mr President, honourable Members of the Court, it is a great honour and privilege to appear before you today, on behalf of the League of Arab States.
2. I would like to read a statement by His Excellency Mr Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States.
3. The League of Arab States attaches high importance to the present proceedings, hoping that they contribute to safeguarding the principles of international law, to uphold the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, and end the last oppressive, expansionist, apartheid, settler-colonial occupation, still standing in the twenty-first century.
4. The persistence of this occupation, acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, crimes against humanity, displacement of populations, imprisonment of Palestinians behind illegal segregation walls, expansion of illegal settlements, creating new political realities on the ground aiming at complicating the dismantling of the occupation ⎯ all ⎯ will never discourage Palestinians from claiming their legitimate inalienable rights.
5. The insistence on placing Israel above the law, through the politicization of accountability and adopting double standards in the application of justice is a direct threat to international peace and stability.
6. Ending Israel’s total impunity, and subjecting it ⎯ like any other State ⎯ to the universal rules of international law, will help annul its pretexts to systematically reject peace initiatives, the most serious of which is the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002, which offered full normalization of relations with all Arab States, in exchange of Israel only respecting its already established obligations, under the bodies of international law, human rights law, and the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.
Arab states, Turkey ask World Court to declare Israeli occupation illegal
Arab states urged international judges on Monday to rule the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories illegal and Turkey described the occupation as „the real obstacle to peace“ on the final day of hearings in a case examining its legal status.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been hearing arguments from more than 50 states following a request by the U.N. General Assembly in 2022 to issue a non-binding opinion on the legal consequences of the Israeli occupation.
US deploys more troops to Syria despite Turkish outcry for PKK support
Troops will be part of Operation Inherent Resolve, a U.S. military campaign against Daesh from Iraq and Libya to Syria. Last year alone, the U.S. sent more than 3,000 soldiers to Syria and Iraq for the campaign. The website Axios reported that U.S. military presence in the region reached about 45,400 as of October 2023 and most are stationed in Kuwait.
Secretary Blinken’s Travel to Türkiye, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank, and Egypt
Secretary Antony J. Blinken will travel to Istanbul, Türkiye; Crete, Greece; Amman, Jordan; Doha, Qatar; Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates; Al ‘Ula, Saudi Arabia; Tel Aviv, Israel; the West Bank; and Cairo, Egypt from January 4-11, 2024.
BREAKING: Jordan endorses South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel. They join Malaysia, Turkey, and and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) who’ve also endorsed
Newly released diplomatic cables reveal Israel desperate to get countries to publicly reject the case
This article by prolific journalist Sam Husseini was published on December 14, 2023. Since then, South Africa has invoked the Genocide Convention, and Malaysia has endorsed that application.
(03.01.2023)
But we have yet to see any action from most of these states…..
War on Gaza: Turkey backs South Africa ‚genocide‘ case against Israel at ICJ
(03.01.2024)
Turkish foreign ministry spokesperson Oncu Keceli said in a statement that Ankara welcomes the South African case, which says Israel has violated its obligations under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
“Israel‘s murder of more than 22,000 Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom were women and children, in Gaza for nearly three months should not go unpunished in any way,“ Keceli said.
Read this Turkey, Jordan, and Qatar could invoke the Genocide Convention against Israel and its co-conspirators. But not one of these states has called out the genocide [by invoking the Convention].
Why?
Turkey recalls envoy to Israel, ‚writes off‘ Netanyahu
Palestinian ally Turkey had been mending torn relations with Israel until last month‘s start of the Israel-Hamas war.
But its tone hardened against both Israel and its Western supporters — particularly the United States — as the fighting escalated and the death toll among Palestinian civilians soared.
Visiting US senators: Hamas must be destroyed, war was opened to prevent Saudi peace
Delaware Democrat Chris Coons also said that the Abraham Accords and progress toward normalization were among Hamas’s reasons to attack now.
Graham added that 10 percent of the US Senate is currently in Israel “because we care… I come here because I love Israel. I do not hate Palestinians. I hate Hamas.”
Graham also had stark words of warning for Tehran: “We’re here today to tell Iran, we’re watching you. If this war grows, it’s coming to your backyard. There won’t be two fronts, there will be three.”
Protests & fireworks in front of the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.
Turkish foreign minister discusses release of hostages with Hamas politburo leader
During the phone call, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed “the latest developments in Palestine and the possibility of release of civilians” with the exiled Haniyeh, the foreign ministry says in a readout.
Drone attack on Syria military college kills at least 89 and wounds hundreds more
Five children and 31 women were among the dead, Syria’s state-run news agency SANA reported.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Turkey Urges US End Working With Kurds Amid Airstrikes on Syria
Turkey called on the US to stop working with Kurdish YPG militants in Syria, vowing to maintain its cross-border offensives against America’s Kurdish allies in Syria after the US shot down a Turkish drone in the region.
US shoots down Turkish drone over Syria after attacks near Hasakah
Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu, reporting from Istanbul, said the UAV did not belong to the Turkish military, according to a statement.
“It is not only the Turkish military that conducts counterterrorism operations in northern Iraq and Syria,” she said.
She said that the Turkish intelligence and interior ministry’s gendarmerie also joined operations.
A Saudi Deal Could Set the Mideast Nuclear Domino Effect in Motion
(Oct 5, 2023)
For many years, the United States, Israel, Middle East analysts and nuclear experts have all warned that the region could be on the brink of a nuclear domino effect.
Turkey Launches Airstrikes on Kurdish Militant Targets in Iraq Following Explosion Near Parliament
This incident occurred on the day when the Turkish Parliament was set to reopen after a summer recess. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in his address, labeled the attack as “the last stand of terrorism” and reiterated the government’s commitment to establishing a 30-kilometer safe zone along Turkey’s border with Syria to enhance border security.
The second person near the car fires a light anti tank weapon. That’s how explosion happens
(01.10.2023)
Here is the footage from a different angle in Ankara attack #Turkey
NEW: Ankara attack footage from this morning. #Turkey
(01.10.2023)
#TerrorAttack ; Nine years after the deadly terror attack at Berlin‘s Breitscheidplatz, Berlin Christmas Market terror attack. Explosions and gunfire near the Turkish Parliamentary Building in Ankara, Turkey.
(01.10.2023)
Netanyahu meets Zelensky, Erdogan on sidelines of UNGA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
On encountering the Israeli delegation, the Ukrainian leader made note of the „very big team“ receiving him, which included Israel‘s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan and Mossad chief David Barnea.
Insider: Treffen zwischen Erdogan und Putin nächste Woche
Das von der Türkei und den Vereinten Nationen vermittelte Abkommen zur Ausfuhr von Getreide aus der Ukraine über das Schwarze Meer wurde von Russland im Juli nicht mehr verlängert.
Erdogan says plans talks with Putin for extension of Black Sea grain deal
„The termination of the Black Sea Grain Initiative will have a series of consequences, ranging from an increase in global food prices, famine in some regions, to potential new waves of migration,“ Erdogan told reporters on his flight back to Türkiye.
„I believe we will ensure the continuation of this humanitarian movement by discussing the issue in detail with Mr. Putin,“ he said.
Turkish, Ukrainian presidents discuss extension of Black Sea grain deal
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed the extension of the Black Sea grain deal over a phone call on Friday.
„The leaders discussed in detail the extension of the Black Sea Grain Corridor Agreement during the phone call held at the request of President Zelenskyy of Ukraine,“ the Turkish Communications Directorate said on Twitter.
By pulling out of the Ukrainian grain deal, Russia risks alienating its few remaining partners
The Black Sea deal allowed Ukraine to ship 32.9 million metric tons of grain and other food to global markets. According to official data, 57% of the grain from Ukraine went to developing nations, while China received the most — nearly a quarter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that 60,000 metric tons of grain destroyed by Russia’s strike on the port of Odesa on Wednesday were bound for China.
Blockade: Kein NATO-Beitritt Schwedens auf Gipfel
Schweden kann seine Hoffnungen auf einen NATO-Beitritt auf dem Gipfel des Verteidigungsbündnisses Mitte Juli begraben.
Das ungarische Parlament habe die Ratifizierung des Beitrittsprotokolls nicht auf die Tagesordnung seiner letzten Sitzung vor der Sommerpause gesetzt, teilte die oppositionelle Abgeordnete Agnes Vadai heute nach einer Sitzung des parlamentarischen Hauptausschusses mit.