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The Grand Turk
Ex-Hezbollah leader hails Turkey’s Mideast policy
2018-01-29
[AA.TR] Former Secretary-General of Leb’s Shia Hezbollah movement, Subhi al-Tufayli, has praised The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
’s policy in the Middle East region.

"Turkey is the only country that cares about Syria's security and unity and its foreign policy is in accordance with the expectations and will of the Syrian people," al-Tufayli, 70, said in an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency on Sunday.

He hailed the Ottoman Turkish position regarding recent anti-government protests in Iran.

"Turkey announced that they would refuse any sort of foreign interference in Iran and emphasized that peace and social stability should be preserved in its neighbor," he said.

"Ankara has successfully overcome all troubles and handled regional problems appropriately," he said. "Iran, however, was not that sensitive to some incidents that took place in Turkey."

Hezbollah and Iran are main supporters of Syria’s Bashir al-Assad regime, whose forces have put down pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity in 2011, triggering a deadly civil war that killed tens of thousands and displaced millions.

After leading Hezbollah from 1989 to 1991, al-Tufayli is now a vocal critic of the group’s current leadership, especially its policy on Syria.
There it is. I wondered what he had become after stepping down.
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