On Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to threaten military intervention against Israel, saying Turkey could “enter” Israel as it did in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh.
“We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do similar to them,” Erdogan said in a televised address. “There is no reason why we cannot do this … We must be strong so that we can take these steps.”
Starting in 2020, Turkey, a NATO member, began deploying military advisors and thousands of Syrian mercenaries to Libya to support the UN-backed Government of National Accord.
Turkey also strongly backed Azerbaijan’s 2020 assault on Nagorno-Karabakh by providing weapons and political support. The conflict ended in 2023 with Azerbaijan completing the ethnic cleansing of the over 100,000 ethnic Armenians who lived in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Turkey denied that it intervened directly in Nagorno-Karabakh, but during the 2020 war, there were allegations that Ankara sent mercenaries recruited from Syria to fight for Azerbaijan.
In response to Erdogan’s comments about intervening in Israel, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned the Turkish leader could be the next Saddam Hussein, who was toppled and later executed following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
“Erdogan follows in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein and threatens to attack Israel. Just let him remember what happened there and how it ended,” Katz wrote on X.
What a dumb statement by Erdogan. If Turkey "enter" Israel, a small number of devices would enter Turkey from Israel. Each device would have either U-235 or Pu-239 or mixture of both.
The ASI attacking a NATO member ?
Boy wouldn't THOSE Article V discussions in various NATO capitals take a real interesting turn. "As to mutual defense obligations, ah, for fear of appearing antisemitic AND because of what might be in the basements of Israeli embassies in our countries…we, um, have decide NOT to retaliate, invoking the USS Liberty Doctrine."
Article 5 does applies when a NATO nation is attacked. But it a NATO nation starts a war, that is a different story. For example, Vietnam. NATO was not under obligation to joint the USA in that war.
"For example, Vietnam."
Vietnam didn't attack the United States. Your example isn't relevant.
What you should have pointed out, as I alluded to, is that individual NATO nations have the option to decline to participate in mutual defense. And if the ASI attacked Turkey and Turkey turned to NATO, as I suggested above, watch as everyone looks away & casually whistles.
Well they could enter Gaza? Gaza isn't Israel so far as I understand
It would be good to see Turkey occupy the West Bank and move all the refugees from Turkey and Syria home again.
Turkey has a great history of occupation…let me see…Armenia,Kurdestan, Cypress…
And how would Turkey accomplish that?
Azerbaijan isn't banned from the Olympics, but Russia is.
Turkey isn't banned after aiding Azerbaijan and invading northern Syria and Iraq, and arming Turkmen in Syria.
Ukraine isn't banned after shelling Donbass for eight years before Russia finally intervened.
The U.S. isn't banned after illegally invading Afghanistan, Iraq and eastern Syria.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE aren't banned after bombing Yemen for years, with U.S. weapons and aid, and blockading its ports, starving hundreds of thousands.
Burma isn't banned after the military took power and ended democracy. Nor are the western African states where the same thing happened.
But Russia is banned. Because the U.S. Left hates them. A conservative European country, that forbade homosexual propaganda in the schools, so that Hillary's campaign then used them as the bogeyman in the 2016 election. The fanatic hate campaign went on for years, and was believed by 84 percent of Democrats.
That is the real reason why Russia is banned, but Azerbaijan isn't.
Nagorno-Karabakh Is an Azerbaijan territory.
The Olympics suck anyways. If they ran events with competitors nude like ancient Greeks did, THEN I'll care about m.f.-ing Pickleball or that ribbon-twirling s**t.
Here we go again blaming "leftists" for things they have NOTHING to do with. Clinton and the democrats are not leftists. There are no "leftists" in power. The democrats are center right capitalists.
Both parties have lead us to this point.
A million upvotes.
Yeah-Maduro in Venezuela,the Sandanistas…..
Venezuela and Nicaragua are not US territories, much as that may shock you.
But the international power those two countries project ! (giggle)
Might as well Erdogan says: Blah blah blah blah blah blah. At least that would be truthful.
He rants a lot like Trump…!
Great minds think alike.
😂 you guys are killing me today!
Will Israel trick the USA to attack Turkey as It did in Iraq?
Will Turkey, in possession of Gaza, create a Rat Line to smuggle Hamassian armaments from Gaza to Daeshi'i fighters in Iraq to torment the Kurdistanians ?
Turkey doesn't need to annoy the Kurds, they make up 20% of the population of the country. They do need to defend themselves from terrorists, which the Kurdish separatists unequivocally are. They want to carve their homeland out of pieces of four countries and force all Kurds to live there and no one else. It would be an ethnic cleansing unequaled since the Indian Wars.
I thought the Turks viewed all Kurds as PKK members or sympathisers? Or am I applying Israeli logic to a tangentially related issue ?
That’s the impression that the media would like to leave since it makes the narrative so much easier to manage, “Muslim country bad, always oppressing someone.” In actuality Kurds are the second or third largest group in Turkey, about a fifth of the population, and integrated into the culture. There’s a lot more tolerance in the world than there is hatred, of course it’s the latter that always gets the headlines. (Rightfully so.)
Ray McGovern : Iran and a Pretext for War
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sZBkUN6n_XY
McGovern seems to think they would enter only if there was full blown war.
Turkey said blah blah in the past many times. I will believe by their deeds not by their blah.
Erdogan talks about religion and turns the Hagia Sofia Church into a mosque. Attacking Christians is always easy, leftists like Biden approve of that. But he doesn't do anything that would be a real risk, like helping the people starving to death in Gaza.
If he really believed in all the religious rhetoric Turkey would have intervened as soon as it could, taken control of the border crossings and the area inside them in Gaza.
"Attacking Christians is always easy…"
Indeed. The Christian "persecution complex" is so wired into many of its denominations that actual persecutors don't even need to exist !
All one need do, especially in the USA, is just either decline Christianity unquestioned supremacy over all other religions and/or give other religions the same rights as Christianity enjoys, and POOF, "we're being persecuted", whines the biggest & most influential religion in America.
Someone has to save the Palestinians and if Turkey goes in, they won't be alone. People of the World have been watching the double standards the EU, UK, USA apply to the Sodomite Nation of Israel, know that they will do ZERO to save the Palestinians. They call themselves "Democracies", "Civilized", "Humanitarians", has anyone seen proof of that?
WOW, antiwar blogger endorses more WAR!
Well, the site is about opposing US intervention. If Erdogan were to enter, it would hinder what the US could enable Israel to do.
What’s going on is unusually bad, and the third holiest Muslim site needs defending. Erdogan sees himself a bit like a caliph.
Sounds like you are rooting for war.
Um, my only position is I want the US out. If the Israelis wish to torture children, the US shouldn’t be involved.
At the same time, the US shouldn’t get involved in Kashmir were India to do the same there. China might take an interest, or not. The US is too far away.
I am endorsing STOPPING a Genocide. Turkey or any Nation strong enough, can go into Gaza, to stop more atrocities from happening. Israel can only attack defenseless people, they are too weak, to take on Turkey, USA, UK, etc. So it is a matter of FORCING Israel to stop and it can be done without a war, when other Nations tell Israel they will not back them up. The USA should be doing this, or the UK, since they are the ones supplying the LETHAL Weapons to slaughter unarmed human beings. What is you solution, please share?
Hamas immediately releases all hostages and surrenders, easy.
Erdogan will end up like Saddam! Will he now team up with Iran? Is that possible? (No.)