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2023-01-22 The Grand Turk
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Despite rapprochement with Israel, Turkey remains safe haven for Hamas
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 [IsraelHayom] Ankara proudly enables Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, and its military and financial endeavors, with Lions of Islam enjoying the privilege of Ottoman Turkish citizenship — and the ability to travel internationally and evade sanctions — to plot attacks against Israel.
President Isaac Herzog last week accepted the credentials of Ankara's new ambassador to Israel, Sakir Özkan Torunlar. The Ottoman Turkish diplomat, who served as consul general in Jerusalem (and "ambassador" to the Paleostinian Authority) between 2010 and 2013, assumed the position four years after President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
withdrew The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
's ambassador from Israel and ousted Jerusalem's top envoy amid fighting between the IDF and Paleostinians along the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
border.
On Dec. 27, Erdogan received the credentials of Ambassador Irit Lillian of Israel at the presidential complex in Ankara.
Following over a decade of tension between the two countries, a further attempt at rapprochement is underway. Yet there is a huge elephant in the room: Since January 2013, Hamas Lions of Islam have operated freely in Turkey.
On Monday, journalist Yoni Ben Menachem reported for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs that "Hamas spies on Israel for Iran
 ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both...
from Istanbul." In fact, the year 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the official establishment of the Hamas terror organization's offices in Istanbul.
In December 2021, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs published a report titled "Hamas' Istanbul Headquarters Has Directed Hundreds of Terror Attacks Against Israelis and Laundered Millions of Dollars." It states, "Turkey collaborates with terror organizations on both the ideological and operational levels. Terrorists working on Ottoman Turkish soil establish infrastructures and plan terror attacks against Israel. Hamas bigwigs (most former inmates in Israel for terrorism who were released in a prisoner exchange) are operating from Turkey against Israel....
"Despite the official Ottoman Turkish claims, not only Hamas' political activity is involved. According to the Shabak (Israeli Security Agency), [aka the Shin Bet], over the years, the Istanbul headquarters, branches and operatives have directed hundreds of terror attacks and attempted attacks in Israel and the West Bank in particular."
The report also sheds light on Hamas's companies and money laundering in Turkey.
HAMAS MONEY LAUNDERING
"The Shabak's investigation revealed extensive Hamas money laundering in Turkey under the supervision of Zaher Jabarin, with the authorities turning a blind eye to the source of the funds. The investigation also found that Hamas operatives owned a company named Imas, which served Hamas by camouflaging money-laundering activity involving sums of millions of dollars that were transferred to Gaza and different countries."
Some of the Hamas Lions of Islam who operated in Turkey and even murdered Israelis were, according to the report:
"Mahmoud Atwan, originally from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher, freed in the Shalit deal, member of the cell that kidnapped and murdered Border Police officer Nissim Toledano in 1992; Majid Abu Katish, originally from Anata, also a member of that cell; Taiser Suleiman, expelled in the Shalit deal, murdered an Israeli soldier; Fahad Sabri Barhan al-Shaludi, appears from time to time on Ottoman Turkish television; Walid Zakaria Akel, a founder of Hamas' Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, was given 21 life sentences; Haroun Mansour Yakoub Nasser al-Din, boasted in the past that Turkey grants former Hamas prisoners full freedom to come and go as they please; Ayman Mohammad Abu Khalil; Bakri Hanifa, a senior economic figure in Hamas claimed to have transferred millions of dollars from Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
to Hamas via Turkey; and Maher Abid, a member of Hamas' Political Bureau and senior financial operative, reportedly in charge of Hamas' international relations until 2016."
A ROLE IN THE PALEOSTINIAN ARENA
Khaled Abu Toameh, a leading journalist covering Paleostinian affairs for nearly three decades, told JNS, "It appears that despite the talk about Turkey imposing restrictions on Hamas, the Paleostinian Islamist group and some of its leaders continue to operate in Turkey. Turkey has not officially and publicly distanced itself from Hamas. Hamas, on the other hand, says its relations with Turkey remain strong despite the rapprochement between Ankara and Jerusalem. Obviously, Erdogan does not seem to be interested in totally cutting off his ties with Hamas, because he sees the group as a means for Turkey to play a political role in the Paleostinian arena."
During a visit to Ankara in 2022, Israel's then-defense minister, Benny Gantz, asked his Ottoman Turkish counterpart to oust Hamas from the country — a request Turkey rejected.
"We did not meet a demand regarding Hamas. We do not see Hamas as a terrorist organization," said Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu in November 2022, according to the Sözcu newspaper.
In fact, some Hamas Lions of Islam can freely travel across the world with their Ottoman Turkish passports. Ankara granted citizenship to at least 12 high-ranking Hamas members and was planning to grant it to other members, the Telegraph reported. This was confirmed by Roey Gilad, chargé d'affaires at Israel's embassy in Turkey.
In 2020, a Czech member of the European Parliament, Tomáš Zdechovský, submitted a question to the legislature regarding Turkey's granting citizenship to Hamas operatives, saying, "This information raises concerns that the Paleostinian group will have greater freedom in planning attacks on Israeli citizens around the world. Ottoman Turkish citizenship will allow Hamas members to use Turkey as a base for their operations. At the same time, the USA and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization, and so the security of the entire EU is at stake.
"1. In light of the foregoing, is the [European] Commission aware that the security of the European Union is at stake?
"2. Is the EU conducting a debate with Turkey in this regard?" Zdechovský asked.
The presence of Hamas companies in Turkey has been confirmed by the US government. On May 24, 2022, the United States imposed sanctions on a Hamas finance official as well as a network of financial controllers and companies that generated revenue for the terror group. The sanctions target Hamas's Investment Office, which holds assets estimated to be worth more than $500 million. This includes companies operating in Turkey, Sudan, Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates.
"Today's action targets the individuals and companies that Hamas uses to conceal and launder funds," said Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Elizabeth Rosenberg while in Israel to discuss countering terror financing.
ACQUIRING OTTOMAN TURKISH CITIZENSHIP
Since the European Parliament has left Zdechovský's question unanswered, more news has come out about Hamas operatives acquiring Ottoman Turkish citizenship and assuming Ottoman Turkish names to avoid global scrutiny. The news site Nordic Monitor reported on June 6, 2022, that a Jordanian Hamas financier, Hisham Younis Yahia Qafisheh, who co-owns a Ottoman Turkish real estate company sanctioned by the US Treasury, has acquired Ottoman Turkish nationality and changed his name to a Ottoman Turkish one:
"Hisham Yunis Qafisheh, who played an important role in the transfer of Hamas funds and managed several companies on behalf of the holy warrior organization, is listed as one of the board members of Ottoman Turkish real estate investment firm Trend Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi A.S." In 2021, he "apparently assumed the Ottoman Turkish name Hasmet Aslan and obtained a Ottoman Turkish national identification number, which means he acquired citizenship in Turkey."
Financial and military cooperation between Turkey and Hamas also involves the Iranian regime and  Hezbollah. According to a 2021 report by the Nordic Monitor, "A Ottoman Turkish company set up by Hamas operatives to funnel funds from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) and Hezbollah to the Qassam Brigades dissolved itself after it was designated by the US Treasury as a sponsor of terrorism."
JUDGMENT DAY
Turkey seems to be the main lifeline for Hamas terrorists. This alliance appears to stem from the ideological affiliation between the government of Turkey and Hamas, as Erdogan openly declared in 2017 when he targeted the Jewish people by referring to a hadith (a traditional account of Islam's prophet Muhammad's deeds and sayings) about Judgment Day.
Erdogan at a "Human Rights Day" event in Ankara on Dec. 10, 2017: "Those who think they are the owners of Jerusalem today will not even be able to find trees to hide behind tomorrow." His comment came in response to the Trump administration's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. According to the hadith, for "the coming of the hour," "the Jews must suffer a violent mostly peaceful death to the last one."
The Hamas Charter refers to the same hadith, "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."
| To be fair, both President Erdogan’s political party and Hamas are the local branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in their particular geographies. It seems reasonable that they would share philosophy as well. |
In line with their genocidal ideology, Hamas Lions of Islam have carried out attacks that include shootings, suicide kabooms and standoff mortar and rocket attacks against civilian and military targets.
Yet Hamas, which has the blood of hundreds of innocent people on its hands, is not a terrorist organization according to Erdogan, who posted on Twitter in 2018, "Reminder to Netanyahu: Hamas is not a terrorist organization and Paleostinians are not terrorists. It is a resistance movement that defends the Paleostinian homeland against an occupying power."
Turkey, whose president openly issues threats against Jews, also rewards antisemitic officials with promotion. For instance, Kenan Yasar, a judge who was elected by Turkey's parliament to the Constitutional Court, had posted an antisemitic statement on Twitter. In 2012, Yasar wrote on Twitter that Jews are "people who can burn the [whole] world to cook two eggs."
The government of Turkey proudly enables Hamas in its military and financial endeavors. Its Lions of Islam then go on to plot attacks and kill Israelis in an attempt to destroy the Jewish state. Those Lions of Islam enjoy the privilege of Ottoman Turkish citizenship, adopting Ottoman Turkish names, traveling internationally with their Ottoman Turkish passports, opening Ottoman Turkish bank accounts, operating under the cover of Ottoman Turkish companies or offices, and laundering millions of dollars. Hamas leaders are received by Turkey's president in official meetings before the eyes of the whole world and speak at congresses of Turkey's ruling party.
Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist formerly based in Ankara. She is also a research fellow for the Philos Project. 
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