[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
has said his only concern is Islam, while slamming the defenders of
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
.
"We have only one concern. It is Islam, Islam and Islam. It is impossible for us to accept the overshadowing of Islam. Islam is damaged from what is all being done now. We all have to show the will to categorically deny terrorism without looking at its basis or identity," said Erdogan in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta as part of a visit to the Far East and Southeast Asia.
Erdogan also said some people in Turkey who belong to different sects even defended atheists and
"When it comes to speaking, they say 'We are Moslems.' But on the other hand, we see those who defend both
Erdogan also added Islam was at a turning point with sectarianism being the primary problem.
Turkey does not have a problem with different sects, but terrorist organizations attempt to take advantage of differences in sects under the guise of Islam, he said. In this regard, he named the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as a terrorist organization and said it was damaging Islam and the perception of Moslems in the world.
"The footage disclosed to the world by the hand of this organization greatly damages the perception of Islam and Moslems in the world. We all have to defy this as Turkey does. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
there are some dark powers spreading propaganda that Turkey supported this organization. Turkey has never been involved in that support," Erdogan said, adding that the actions of ISIL had no place in Islam.
Erdogan also said the cost of Syrian refugees to Turkey had now exceeded 6 billion dollars, while criticizing the West over its failure to show as much sensibility as Turkey in terms of refugees.
"They [European nations] are even giving opportunities to refugees coming from the Aegean and Mediterranean to drown in the sea," Erdogan said.