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Erdogan urges world to recognize Hamas
Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:24:15 GMT
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for recognition of Hamas which won a landslide victory in Palestinian elections.
In an interview with The Washington Post published Saturday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said isolating Hamas is the reason for the ongoing tensions in the region.
He criticized world leaders for failing to respect the political will of the Palestinian people who voted for the Palestinian resistance movement.
Erdogan said Hamas would have been in a different situation if the world had given it a chance in politics after winning elections.
The Turkish prime minister said Hamas would not be able to change the situation as long as Palestine was "an open air prison".
Hamas won the 2006 Parliamentary elections with 74 of the 132 available seats. The rival ruling Fatah faction got only 45 seats.
Western-backed Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah however fired Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya's unity government in June 2007.
Erdogan's remarks came after his recent public spat with Israel's President Shimon Peres, over the Israeli massacre in the Gaza Strip, in the world economic forum meeting on Thursday.
On Thursday, Erdogan stormed out of the world economic forum in Davos, Switzerland after a heated debate with Shimon Peres on Gaza.
Erdogan told Peres in the Forum, "Mr. Peres, you are a senior citizen and you speak in a loud voice. I feel that your raised voice is due to the guilt you feel.
"But be sure that my voice will not be raised as yours,"
"When it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill."
"I know very well how you hit and killed children on beaches."
Erdogan walked off in front of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other panel members complaining that his comments on the conflict were cut short by the Washington Post's moderator David Ignatius.
Israel launched the military campaign against the impoverished coastal strip after an Israeli National Security Council assessment urged Tel Aviv to hinder 'elections in the Palestinian Authority at all costs' because it may lead to another Hamas victory.
Sallahddin
01-02-09, 19:52
Erdogan urges world to recognize Hamas
Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:24:15 GMT
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for recognition of Hamas which won a landslide victory in Palestinian elections.
In an interview with The Washington Post published Saturday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said isolating Hamas is the reason for the ongoing tensions in the region.
He criticized world leaders for failing to respect the political will of the Palestinian people who voted for the Palestinian resistance movement.
Erdogan said Hamas would have been in a different situation if the world had given it a chance in politics after winning elections.
The Turkish prime minister said Hamas would not be able to change the situation as long as Palestine was "an open air prison".
Hamas won the 2006 Parliamentary elections with 74 of the 132 available seats. The rival ruling Fatah faction got only 45 seats.
Western-backed Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah however fired Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya's unity government in June 2007.
Erdogan's remarks came after his recent public spat with Israel's President Shimon Peres, over the Israeli massacre in the Gaza Strip, in the world economic forum meeting on Thursday.
On Thursday, Erdogan stormed out of the world economic forum in Davos, Switzerland after a heated debate with Shimon Peres on Gaza.
Erdogan told Peres in the Forum, "Mr. Peres, you are a senior citizen and you speak in a loud voice. I feel that your raised voice is due to the guilt you feel.
"But be sure that my voice will not be raised as yours,"
"When it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill."
"I know very well how you hit and killed children on beaches."
Erdogan walked off in front of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other panel members complaining that his comments on the conflict were cut short by the Washington Post's moderator David Ignatius.
Israel launched the military campaign against the impoverished coastal strip after an Israeli National Security Council assessment urged Tel Aviv to hinder 'elections in the Palestinian Authority at all costs' because it may lead to another Hamas victory.
Thanks Erdogan : ; :fpetaf:
This Goddamned hypocrit world gotta recognise the legetimate democratically elected palestinian resistance movement = Hamas :
they have too : otherwise there will be no peace :
u cannot achieve real peace if u do not talk to the democratically elected leaders of the resistance, unless this hypocrit world want to impose some kindda forced "peace" 's terms on palestinians which will never work of course as history of mankind itself shows !
Ik moest aan dit artikel denken van vorige maand:
Van Bommel (SP): vrijheid van meningsuiting voor Koerdische politica - Hoofdinhoud
Met dank overgenomen van Socialistische Partij (SP) i, gepubliceerd op 9 december 2008.
SP-Kamerlid Harry van Bommel i heeft minister Verhagen i (Buitenlandse Zaken) met klem verzocht protest aan te tekenen tegen de veroordeling van de Turks-Koerdische politicia Leyla Zana. Zana kreeg van een Turkse rechtbank tien jaar gevangenisstraf opgelegd wegens openbare uitspraken die zij het afgelopen jaar heeft gedaan over de Koerdische kwestie in Turkije.
De Turks-Koerdische politica stelde dat de gevangenzittende leider van de verzetsbeweging PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, een leider van de Koerden is. De rechter concludeerde op grond van deze uitspraak dat Zana lid is van de PKK. Omdat dat een verboden organisatie is, veroordeelde hij haar tot tien jaar. Volgens Harry van Bommel is dat een schending van de vrijheid van meningsuiting. “Leyla Zana heeft geen misdaden begaan, zij heeft de Turkse regering onwelgevallige uitspraken gedaan. Dat is geen uiting van democratie. De minister moet dit aan de Turkse regering laten weten”, aldus het SP-Kamerlid.
Het is niet voor het eerst dat Zana een gevangenisstraf van tien jaar krijgt. In 1991 werd zij gekozen in het Turkse parlement voor een pro-Koerdische partij. Ze sprak de eed uit in het Koerdisch en overtrad daarmee de wet. Dat had tot gevolg dat zij haar zetel moest opgeven, de partij verboden werd en zij tot tien jaar gevangenisstraf werd veroordeeld. Een straf die zij uitzat en die bovendien tussentijds nog werd verlengd omdat zij vanuit de gevangenis een brief naar de pers schreef in het Koerdisch. In 2004 kwam zij vrij.
In 1995 kreeg zij, toen zij in de gevangenis zat, de Sacharov-mensenrechtenprijs van het Europees Parlement. Naast de gevangenisstraf is haar het kiesrecht ontzegd. Ze mag niet deelnemen aan verkiezingen, noch mag zij zich kandidaat stellen. Deze veroordeling komt kort voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen in Turkije, in maart 2009. Zana werd genoemd als kandidaat voor het burgemeesterschap van de belangrijkste Koerdische stad Diyarbakir. Van Bommel: “Turkije moet voldoen aan de universele normen voor de vrijheid van meningsuiting en andere burgerrechten. De Nederlandse regering moet er op toezien dat Turkije die regels naleeft.”
Ben benieuwd wanneer hij weer op straat gaat met leuzen als
"Vrijheid vrijheid vrijheid voor Abdullah Öcalan
Vrede in Kurdistan"
't is wel stil rond Van Bommel nu. Ja...zo maar wat in me op kwam na het lezen van "hypocriete wereld".
Thanks Erdogan : ; :fpetaf:
This Goddamned hypocrit world gotta recognise the legetimate democratically elected palestinian resistance movement = Hamas :
they have too : otherwise there will be no peace :
u cannot achieve real peace if u do not talk to the democratically elected leaders of the resistance, unless this hypocrit world want to impose some kindda forced "peace" 's terms on palestinians which will never work of course as history of mankind itself shows !
Misschien kan hij beginnen de PKK te erkennen, en Koerdistan?
:)
Sallahddin
02-02-09, 13:18
Misschien kan hij beginnen de PKK te erkennen, en Koerdistan?
:)....
.....& diplomatiek & andere banden met de zionazis te verbreken ....
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.....& diplomatiek & andere banden met de zionazis te verbreken ....
Hij voerde gewoon een grote act op en een heel volk haalt hem binnen als held. Hoe dom kun je zijn? Enfin...voor de komende Turkse verkiezingen zit hij nu al gebakken. Of dit de banden tussen Israel en Turkije heeft geschaad? Ik geloof er geen bal van. Politieke spelletjes waarmee het volk wordt bezig gehouden en het als brood naar binnen krijgt gevoerd. Wat is nu zo'n volk dat zijn leiders kiest? Dom. Zelfs jij gelooft erin zie ik.
tr_imparator
02-02-09, 13:59
Hamas needs to be part of peace process, Blair says
Hamas should be part of the Middle East peace process, Tony Blair, envoy to the region of the international “quartet” of powers, said in comments published over the weekend.
“I do think it is important that we find a way of bringing Hamas into this process, but it can only be done if Hamas are prepared to do it on the right terms,” Blair said in an interview with the Times newspaper, published on its website. “If you do this in the wrong way it can destabilize the very people in Palestine who have been working all through for the moderate cause.”
In Gaza, Hamas official Mushir al-Masri said Blair’s comments were proof that the West was acknowledging that Hamas could not be dismissed, although he added that the envoy’s demands were unacceptable to the movement.
“Blair’s statement ... repeated the same obstacles set by the West: to reject the recognition of Palestinian democracy, to impose the siege, to provide cover for the Zionist enemy’s crimes against our people and to refuse to deal with the legitimate government and parliament,” Masri said.
He added that Hamas was a strong and popular political entity and that Blair’s repeat of “the same old ideas” would solve nothing.
Hamas won a 2006 election but Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sacked its government led by Ismail Haniyeh after a few months because it refused to honor agreements signed by the previous government, recognize Israel and renounce violence. Hamas wrested control of the Gaza Strip from Abbas’ Fatah faction in 2007 which largely holds sway in the West Bank.
With a shaky cease-fire in place after the war in Gaza, efforts are under way to restart negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. The West supports the Fatah administration in the West Bank and says it will not talk to Hamas unless it renounces violence and recognizes Israel’s right to exist. Former British Prime Minister Blair is the Middle East envoy for the quartet of Middle East peace negotiators -- the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union.
Israel threatens more massacres
In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert threatened on Sunday a “disproportionate response” to the continued firing of rockets into Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. There have been sporadic rocket attacks by militants on southern Israeli communities and several Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip since a truce came into effect on Jan. 18 following a 22-day Israeli offensive in the territory.
At least two rockets struck southern Israel on Sunday, causing no damage or casualties. A wing of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group belonging to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, claimed responsibility.
02 February 2009, Monday
REUTERS LONDON/JERUSALEM
tr_imparator
02-02-09, 14:17
Ik moest aan dit artikel denken van vorige maand:
't is wel stil rond Van Bommel nu. Ja...zo maar wat in me op kwam na het lezen van "hypocriete wereld".
:zozo: Ik wist niet dat jij de EU onderhandelingen enzo van Turkije in de gaten hield.
Waarom niet?
Maar dan ook de PKK inderdaad.
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.....& diplomatiek & andere banden met de zionazis te verbreken ....
Nee, dan raakt hij zijn rol als bemiddelaar kwijt. Hij was nou net zo lekker op weg met Syrië. Dat zal nou ook wel over zijn.
Turkije is de ideale middle man tussen Israël en Hamas, de PLO, Syrië etc. Maar nu ff niet meer, vrees ik.