Posts Tagged: Turkey
US Jewish Leaders Meet With El-Sisi in Egypt, Following Talks With Turkey’s Erdogan
US Jewish leaders met in Cairo with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Thursday, Israel's Channel 10 reported. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations delegation was led...
Expert: Israel-Greek-Cyprus Group Puts Pressure on Turkey to Reach Breakthrough With Jerusalem
The trilateral meeting between leaders from Israel, Greece and the Republic of Cyprus put pressure on Turkey to reach a diplomatic breakthrough with Israel, Gallia Lindenstrauss, a...
Report: Hamas Accelerating Its Tunnel-Digging Operations Toward Israeli Border Towns
Hamas has accelerated its tunnel-building operations near the Gaza border towards Israeli towns and villages, Israeli military officials said according to Walla news. Less than two years after Israel delivered Hamas' tunnel...
Iran Warns Turkey Against Renewing Ties With Israel
Iran warned Turkey against rapprochement with Israel, semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Monday. "The Turkish government shouldn’t pursue a different path with the Quds Occupying regime [Israel]" at the...
From Flotilla to Friends? Turkey-Israel Reconciliation Not So Simple
JNS.org - Israel and Turkey are close to signing a deal to normalize diplomatic ties following a secret meeting in Switzerland between senior officials. Reports indicate...
First-Ever Public Menorah-Lighting Ceremony Held in Muslim-Majority Turkey
It may be the only public menorah-lighting ceremony ever held in the Muslim world, and on Sunday night, hundreds of people gathered in Istanbul's waterside Ortakoy...
Senior IDF Commander: ‘We Never Dreamed We’d See Russian Missile Systems in Our Back Yard’
A senior Israeli Army official said that Russia's deployment of an advanced anti-aircraft defense system in Syria took Israel slightly by surprise, Israel's Channel 2 reported...
Why Turkey’s Erdogan Won a Surprise Election Victory
The shouts ricocheted across cyberspace, on Twitter and Facebook, in e-mails and messages and banners: "Turkey votes for Islam!" "Islam wins! America loses!" This is how the...
Erdogan Landslide No Threat to Country’s Jews, Says Turkish-Jewish Journalist
The stunning victory of the conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey does not pose a threat to Turkish Jewry, Turkish-Jewish columnist and blogger Karel Valansi told The Algemeiner on Thursday. Valansi, the political...
President Erdogan: The Bully of Istanbul
Almost everyone at some time during their youth has seen and experienced a form of bullying; some may have even been a bully themselves. It might...
Opportunistic Erdogan Tries to Leverage EU Membership From Refugee Crisis
He has called for a new, religious Muslim generation and is building it. He has said that women are not equal to men, imprisoned dozens of journalists, and has...
Ankara Inspecting Jewish-Turkish Business Mogul for Support of ‘Parallel Movement’
The Ankara Public Prosecutor is inspecting claims that the chairman of one of Turkey's largest business conglomerates has provided financial and moral support to the so-called "parallel structure," Turkish media reported...
Report: Tangible Improvement in Israel-Turkey Relations Since Lieberman’s Departure From Foreign Ministry
Relations between Turkey and Israel have seen a marked improvement since the formation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government and his assumption of...
Seizure of Hamas Operatives Possibly Carried Out With US-Israel Cooperation
Pro-Hamas websites on Wednesday published correspondence between the Palestinian Authority and Egypt, detailing the seizure of four Hamas operatives in the Sinai, indicating it was carried...
