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Israel-Palestine
Erdogan Offers to Mediate for Peace in the Middle East
2005-05-02
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to mediate for peace in the Middle East during his first official visit to Israel yesterday. The Turkish premier, who triggered a diplomatic crisis last year by accusing Israel of engaging in "state terrorism", said the two countries needed to show a united front in the global war on terror by attacking its root causes.
And no doubt he expects everybody to forget the "state terrorism" crack and pretend he's an honest broker...
Following talks late yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Erdogan and Sharon expressed confidence that the visit would help move the Middle East peace process forward. "I came here to contribute to the peace process in the Middle East," Erdogan said at a joint press conference with Sharon. "I believe this visit will certainly help the creation of a positive atmosphere in the Middle East and will allow the advance of political processes and, with God's help, we will reach peace," said Sharon. Sharon said he believed Turkey could play a role in helping the Palestinians economically following Israel's withdrawal of all troops and Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip this summer. "Turkey has the capacity to help the Palestinians after the redeployment in the economic field," he said, suggesting that Ankara could contribute by building power stations, desalination plants and high-rise buildings to house refugees in the territory.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Who's next? Probably Chavez and Zimbabwe Bob, tag-teaming it to Jerusalem.
Posted by: thibaud (aka lex)   2005-05-03 00:14  

#9  RWV - Nor do their ham-handed (eat it, Muzzies, lol!) threats about crossing the border, yadda3. Fucking nitwits. Blow it out your stacking swivel, as an old Mstr Sgt of mine used to say.
Posted by: .com   2005-05-02 23:15  

#8  ''Erdogan attempt at relevancy - take two!''
Posted by: Pappy   2005-05-02 22:59  

#7  Is it me, or is he starting to _look_ like Putin?
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-05-02 20:39  

#6  Debka offers a different perspective on the sudden attention of the Turks:

DEBKAfile’s political sources reveal that the real purpose of Turkish leader’s sudden arrival was a request to Sharon to intercede with top Bush administration levels to ease Washington-Ankara relations strained by dispute on US policy in Iraq, especially on Kurdish question

Don't know what it is with muslims and cause and effect. Most Westerners would have realized that deliberately sabotaging the US invasion of Iraq by denying passage to the 4th ID would not generate an invite for a weekend in Crawford.
Posted by: RWV   2005-05-02 3:50:24 PM  

#5  Oh, and Hitler copied this Turkish mass murder when he made the Jewish Holocaust. His famous comment was "who remembers the Armenians?"

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SENATOR RUDY BOSCWITZ, R-Minn. (CR-Senate, 4/25/84, p. S4852): When Hitler first proposed his final solution, he was told that the world would never permit such a mass murder. Hitler silenced his advisers by asking, "Who remembers the Armenians?"
Posted by: sea cruise   2005-05-02 8:38:16 AM  

#4  Sorry, but whenever I think of Turkey I think of denial of their bloody Jihad against the Armenians and Greeks. Their Armenian Holocaust denial
Posted by: sea cruise   2005-05-02 8:35:10 AM  

#3  But I've seen where they'll stay - the new Wynn hotel. Boggle doesn't cover it. Ya gotta wonder why folks don't figure it out - all those lights, all that opulence, and all that luxury - the money has to come from somewhere... Lol, suckahs!
Posted by: .com   2005-05-02 6:43:00 AM  

#2  That's 'cause you're living in Las Vegas, .com. So you can't be on the International Moron mailing list. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-05-02 6:27:37 AM  

#1  ROFLMAO!!!

First Tsar Putty, now Yippie. WTF?

Must be International Moron Reputation Rehabilitation Month.

I didn't get the memo. *sniff*
Posted by: .com   2005-05-02 1:56:07 AM  

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