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Turkey deports Israeli soccer star over gesture to hostages; Israeli ministers irate
[IsraelTimes] Sagiv Jehezkel lands in Israel, with FM Katz blasting Ankara as ‘dark dictatorship’; Gallant: Ungrateful Turks acting as ‘executive arm’ of HamasAn Israeli soccer player detained in ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... over an on-field gesture to hostages held by gunnies in 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 Hamas with 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 oppressionand disproportionate response... rushed to leave the country on Monday, as Israeli ministers blasted Ankara as an accomplice of Hamas  ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,..., Ottoman Turkish 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 in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... as a "full-on Nazi," and Turkey as a "dark dictatorship." Sagiv Jehezkel celebrated his equalizer goal in Sunday’s 1-1 draw against Trabzonspor in the top Ottoman Turkish league by making a heart sign with his hands to the camera and showing his wristband, which had the words "100 days. October 7" along with a Star of David symbol. The 132 hostages remaining in captivity in the Strip have been held there for 100 days after being kidnapped by Hamas-led gunnies on October 7. The gesture did not go down well in Turkey, a country that hosts top Hamas officials and whose leaders have taken a highly hostile approach against Israel during the ongoing war. Ottoman Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Sagiv Jehezkel, 28, a player for Antalyaspor, flew out of the country after being detained Sunday, appearing in court and being released earlier Monday pending trial. Proceedings will continue against the Israeli, but Ottoman Turkish authorities allowed him to leave. "Turkey is always on the side of all the oppressed and the Paleostinian people," Yerlikaya said in a social media post. Israel furiously condemned Jehezkel’s detention, sending already strained relations between the two regional powers to a new low. The Antalyaspor club, which at first feted Jehezkel’s goal and posted photos of the celebration on X, formerly Twitter, deleted the post a short while later after being met with a torrent of criticism and demands to oust him from the team. The club promptly suspended Jehezkel, and its president Sinan Boztepe said it would terminate his contract since he had "acted against the sensitivities of Antalya, Antalyaspor and our country" — a move that Israel’s Channel 12 news said would cost the team over $1 million. It’s only right that they pay for their pleasures, though Jew-hating can turn out to be shockingly expensive — as Harvard and Spain have discovered the hard way. The Ottoman Turkish Football Federation (TFF) condemned the "completely unacceptable behavior" of Jehezkel, and said it found Antalyaspor’s decision to exclude him from the team "appropriate."“When there was an earthquake in Turkey less than a year ago, Israel was the first country to stand up and extend aid that saved the lives of many Turkish citizens,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant wrote on X. “The scandalous arrest of the soccer player Sagiv Jehezkel is an expression of hypocrisy and ingratitude. Through its actions, Turkey serves as the executive arm of Hamas.” This is not the first time the Gaza war has been an issue for Israeli players in the Turkish soccer league. Weeks after the outbreak of the war, Jehezkel and his Arab Israeli teammate Ramzi Safouri sat out a game after the league held a moment of silence in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza — without any mention of Hamas’s brutal onslaught on Israel that triggered the war. Second Israeli soccer player detained and released by Turkish authorities, slated to return to Israel [IsraelTimes] A second Israeli soccer player in Turkey has been detained by Turkish authorities over expressing solidarity with the hostages in Gaza. Eden Kartsev has subsequently been released and is slated to return to Israel, Hebrew media reports. Istanbul’s top-flight side Basaksehir said earlier that it was launching a disciplinary investigation into Kartsev for reposting a social media message about the hostages reading: “Bring Them Home Now.” Posted by: trailing wife 2024-01-17 |
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