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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish Islamists hold anti-Israel rally outside Istanbul synagogue |
| 2017-07-21 |
| [IsraelTimes] Protesting installment of metal detectors at Temple Mount, demonstrators hurl stones at Jewish house of worship, decry ’terror state’ Israel A group of The group from the Alperen Hearths, a far-right ultranationalist and Islamist youth group, said in a statement read outside the Neve Salom synagogue in central Istanbul that Israel was a "terror state" seeking to block freedom for worship to Moslems. "If you prevent our freedom of worship there then we will prevent your freedom of worship here," said the statement, read by the group’s local chairman Kursat Mican. The Foundation of the "We condemn the provocative action outside the Neve Salom synagogue tonight. We expect that the relevant authorities will take the necessary measures," it said in a statement. According to Dogan, some protesters kicked the doors of the synagogue and threw stones. They later dispersed. The synagogue usually has a heavy police guard. It was targeted by deadly attacks in 1986 by Paleostinian forces of Evil and again in 2003, which was attributed to Islamists. While nationalists protest occasionally outside Israel’s diplomatic missions in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , a demonstration outside a synagogue is unusual. Tensions were high in Jerusalem on Thursday, following days of festivities between police and Moslem worshipers protesting the metal detectors. President Reuven Rivlin spoke by phone to ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Thursday in a bid to help calm tensions surrounding the Temple Mount despite objections from the Israeli Foreign Ministry to involving Ankara in the dispute. The call, reportedly at Erdogan’s request, came following nearly a week of unrest in Jerusalem in the wake of a deadly terror attack last Friday by three Arab Israeli assailants who emerged from the Temple Mount and fatally shot two Israeli coppers. Police footage released Thursday showed how the weapons were smuggled onto the site with the assistance of a fourth, as-yet-unidentified man. In the phone call, the president told Erdogan that Israel expected Turkey to condemn the terror attack, just as Israel condemns terror attacks in Turkey, "with the understanding that terror was terror wherever it took place; in Jerusalem, in Istanbul, or in Gay Paree," according to a press statement issued by his office. Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick...... The "Within the framework of freedom of religion and worship there can be no impediment for Moslems" entering the holy site, the Anadolu news agency quoted Erdogan as telling Rivlin. "Given the importance that Haram al-Sharif carries for the whole Islamic world, the metal detectors put in place by Israel should be removed in the shortest possible time and an end put to the tension," Erdogan added. Erdogan expressed "sadness" in the call to Rivlin over the "casualties in the incident." |
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