Istanbuls Bürgermeister zu CNN: „Hamas ist eine Terrororganisation, die Terror verübt“
https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-798988
Istanbuls Bürgermeister zu CNN: „Hamas ist eine Terrororganisation, die Terror verübt“
https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-798988
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Well well what do we have here
Finally someone with the balls to say the truth
He won the Istanbul elections this year by a landslide against Erdogan’s party. It is expected that he will become president in 2028.
In other words, he told the truth.
Did Erdogan officially leave the Democracy tram to fly Hamas airways to jihad paradise ?
İmamoğlu is the Turkish opposition’s best hope for winning the presidential elections in 2028.
Unfortunately he’s been sentenced to 2 years in prison last year and banned from politics for life.
> In November 2019 Imamoglu answered a question of a reporter over the Minister of the Interior calling him a “fool” for criticizing the dismissal of elected mayors of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) and their replacement with appointed trustees before the Council of Europe. He answered that those responsible for cancelling the first mayoral elections of Istanbul in March 2019 were “foolish” as it would tarnish the international reputation of Turkey. In May 2021, Ekrem İmamoğlu was indicted for insulting public officials.
An appeal is still pending.
Wow, they cut the rest of the interview just like that?
Why are there so many posts from “The Jerusalem Post” lately? Isn’t this kind of like a post from “The Russian Post” saying “Ukraine Bad.”?
There are no good guys in the Middle East, it’s been a cluster fuck of religious violence for millennia and that isn’t going to change anytime soon, no matter how many arms the rest of the world funnels into the area.
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I am shocked that he would hold that view given that all they did was use brutal violence, intimidation, and rape against civilians, publicized it and said they would do it again, to try to achieve a political aim.
Imamoglu is a social democrat and probably most left leaning politician in his party, CHP.
Shouldn’t even be a controversial thing to say…
Is the official pro Palestinian stance that Hamas are not terrorists ? I didn’t think this was a controversial statement.
Erdogan, take note, that’s the right way to talk about Hamas
It is what it is
Why is this news? Everyone knows this.
You may say, “This is plain, obvious, public information anyway, what is the news value of him saying this?”, but keep in mind that Erdogan actively supports Hamas under his Islamist policies ve Erdoğan is a fierce enemy of this man. Additionally, due to the Islamist policy of the AKP in Turkey and the resulting propaganda, there is so much misinformation circulating about the current Israel-Hamas War. Most people here in Turkey think of Hamas as a peaceful organisation that picks daisies with one hand and raises a protest banner against Israel and its anti-Arab policies with the other. In other words, it is important for Türkiye to speak the truth about this organisation out loud.
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Roses are red
and Turkey didn’t just meet with the leader of Hamas? how are we supposed to take the leadership seriously when they are so clearly playing both sides?
“…and thus the continued Israeli offensive in Gaza resulting in horrendous collateral damage is justified,” the mayor added (actually he didn’t).
“On a related note did you know that Istanbul is in Turkey?”
Good to know someone in Turkey understands that
Tell that to the people chanting support for them on the streets and universities of the west.
Interesting how the full quote is omitted.
“Of course, Hamas carried out an attack in Israel that we feel very sad about. And any organized structure that carries out these terrorist practices and kills people en masse is a terrorist organization in our eyes. Today, unfortunately, the same thing is being done to innocent Palestinian people in Israel. I demand that both issues be evaluated in this context as soon as possible and that Palestinians be prevented from being subjected to such oppression. Generally speaking, the West does not see the big picture on this issue, it only looks at this issue from the eyes of one side or the other. I think we look at it more realistically. We interpret the Hamas attack as a bad attack, a very bad situation and a terrorist attack. But we represent an understanding that stands against the cruelty suffered by the Palestinian women and children killed there today.”