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Turkey and Israel need each other, says President Erdoğan
[Hurriyet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 and Israel are two countries in the Middle East that need each other, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
"Israel is in need of a country like Turkey in the region. We have to admit that we also need Israel," Erdogan said on his return from an official trip to Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
Speaking to a group of journalists aboard the presidential plane returning to Turkey from Riyadh, where he met with Saudi King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians....
 bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Erdogan said the mutual need "is a fact of the region."

"We need to see that. If we can take steps in reciprocal sincerity, then normalization will continue," he added.

Relations with Israel have been tense since May 31, 2010, when Israeli forces raided a Gazoo-bound flotilla of mainly Turkish activists, killing 10 people aboard the Mavi Marmara, the largest of the six vessels in the flotilla.

Presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said on Dec. 28, 2015, progress was made with Israel on the issue of compensation for Mavi Marmara victims, adding that Turkey had not changed its three conditions for normalization of ties between the two countries:

"There has been progress made about the second condition, the one with compensation, but we have not reached a point where we can ink it," Kalin told news hounds at a presser.

He said Israel has met first condition by apologizing to Turkey, and added that two more demands were still on the table: Compensation for Mavi Marmara victims and the "lift or bend" of an embargo implemented by Israel on Gazoo Strip.

Erdogan reiterated Turkey's stance.

"On the embargo, they [Israel] said 'goods, construction equipment can enter [Gazoo] via Turkey.' We will wait for the written text so that they do not back down," said Erdogan, adding that another important point for Turkey is the Israeli aggression on Al Aqsa Mosque.
Sneaking in a fourth condition? How terribly clever, and surely Israel will not notice.
'Kurdish strip' in Syria not acceptable
In addition, the president said Ankara would "not allow a Kurdish strip" to be formed in northern Syria.
Another thing to discuss with Russia, it appears. Good luck with that.
"Jerablus was one of our targets there in order to clear the region of Daesh [Islamic State]," said Erdogan, using an Arabic acronym for ISIL, referring to the Kurdish People's Protection Units' (YPG) possible crossing to the west of the Euphrates after Syrian Kurdish and Arab rebel forces backed by a U.S.-led coalition captured part of the Tishrin Dam.

"Watching the YPG come to that place is unacceptable. We will hold a meeting.
Golly -- a meeting. With who?
[If we allow the YPG to cross to the west of Euphrates], a Kurdish strip will be formed to the south of us and in the north of Syria. We cannot say 'yes' to this," he added.
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-03
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