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The Grand Turk
Radical Turkish publication calls for a neo-caliphate
2020-08-11
[Jpost] Erdogan, who became president in 2014 and ruled The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
since, has sought to strengthen Turkey's regional role as well as a leading state in the Islamic world.


A Ottoman Turkish magazine, Gercek Hayat, (True Life) praised the Islamic restoration of the Hagia Sophia church back into a mosque and declared the need to re-establish a Ottoman Turkish caliphate, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.

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...
, who became Ottoman Turkish president in 2014 and has ruled Turkey since, has sought to strengthen Turkey's regional role as well as a leading state in the Islamic world.

The magazine described the remake of Hagia Sophia into a mosque as a step in the direction of establishing a caliphate that will reach Jerusalem.

"After Hagia Sophia Church opened to worship as a mosque, discussion returned to the Caliphate, along a route from Mecca to al-Quds (Jerusalem) and beyond," the magazine stated. "The shining landmark along the way is Istanbul, through the shrine of Hagia Sophia... The Philippines, Niger, Indonesia are the Land of the Caliphate, coordinating the world’s Moslems..."

The recent decision to turn the 1,500-year-old cathedral back into a mosque was another important victory for Erdogan, who is seeking to bring back the glory of Ottoman Empire.

Dr. Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations at the Wiesenthal Centre noted that "the Hagia Sophia takeover as a mosque was also led by a more worrying Ottoman Turkish NGO - the IHH (International Humanitarian Relief Foundation)."

The organization was responsible for organizing a humanitarian flotilla, which included ten ships, with the clear intention of breaking the legally imposed Israeli blockade on 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...
back in May 2010.

Curiously enough, perhaps in another act of usurpation the magazine included the famous saying by Hillel the Elder: "If I am not for myself, who will be? / If I am only to myself, what am I? / If not now, when? - likely reinterpreting it to support Erdogan's expansionist agenda.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  So after the ongoing abattoire of the 20th century there is an emperor in China, a Tsar in Russia and a sultan in Istanbul.
Posted by: Cesare   2020-08-11 08:13  

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