Turkey in the Middle East Wars > Is Erdogan beginning to rouse his people for war?

 

Does Erdogan see an opening to begin reassembling the Ottoman Empire under his Caliphate?

Erdogan ally says Aleppo is ‘Turkish

and Muslim to its very marrow’

Uzay Bulut

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Erdogan's ally, and the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Devlet Bahceli, declares that Aleppo "is Turkish and Muslim to its very marrow. It is not just us who says so, history says so, geography says so. The Turkish flag that was hoisted over Aleppo citadel says so." Bahceli thinks so because he’s a Muslim who has an Islamic “understanding” of history and geography. According to Islam, all history is in fact Islamic history, and that all major figures of ancient history basically are Muslim - including Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus. This Islamic concept could be called the “Islamization of history”. Through "Islamization of history," there is also an "Islamization of geography," explains Professor Moshe Sharon: "Anywhere which was connected with these people or with these prophets who were all Muslims becomes a Muslim territory. And therefore, when Islam was not in that area before Mohammed came to it, it should have been there. By that area, I mean the Middle East or other parts outside of the Middle East which are now Muslim. So any place like this had to be freed, not to be conquered. They had to be liberated. So, Islam appeared in history in the time of Mohammed -- or reappeared in history from their point of view -- as a liberator. And therefore, there is no Islamic occupation. If somebody occupies anything, it will always be somebody else, not the Muslims. So, there is no Islamic occupation. There is only Islamic liberation."

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Devlet Bahçeli: Halep, iliklerine kadar Türk ve Müslümandır. Bunu sadece biz söylemiyoruz, tarih söylüyor, coğrafya söylüyor, hakikat söylüyor, ecdad söylüyor, Halep Kalesi’ne çekilen Türk Bayrağı söylüyor. Ankara Kocatepe Camiinden yükselen ezanlar ile Halep Ulu Camiinden

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Turkish Muslim preacher: “The Prophet said:

‘Allah commands of you…to wage jihad'”

Dec 6, 2024 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Osman Akın clearly has violent jihad in mind, as he refers to the “disbelievers” supposedly having “struck” the Muslims repeatedly. Will any of the Muslim spokesmen in the West kindly undertake to refute Osman Akın’s understanding of jihad, and explain to him the true, peaceful Islam? No? And why not?

Turkish Pro-ISIS Preacher Osman Akın, Following His Release From Prison: Allah Commands Us To Wage Jihad; The Disbelievers Attack Muslims Again And Again, We Do Not Accept This

MEMRI, November 4, 2024:

On November 4, 2024, the Ahlak ve Sünnet Magazine YouTube channel uploaded a video of a sermon delivered by pro-ISIS Turkish preacher Osman Akın, also known as Mamoste Osman El-Kurdi. Akın had been arrested in May 2023 during an anti-ISIS crackdown by Turkish authorities, and he was released from prison in May 2024. During his sermon, Akın said that Allah has commanded the Muslims to wage Jihad, he condemned the disbelievers for attacking Muslim societies, and he condemned Muslims who work alongside these disbelievers.

Osman Akın: “We remain today at the same point we were at when this [criminal] case [against me] began. Whatever our creed was, our thought, our ideas, our method… Whatever we said yesterday, we today repeat those same things, and we say them clearly.

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“The Prophet [Muhammad] said: ‘I am commanding you five things that Allah commands of you: one, to hear; two, to obey; three, to be a congregation; four, to make hijra; and five, to wage jihad.’

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“We have gone through a difficult process. The disbelievers have struck us again, and again, and again. We cannot accept this. We cannot accept, simultaneously and parallel with the disbelievers, the striking of Muslims. When the disbeliever are attacking the Muslims this much, and you consider yourself a Muslim and say ‘I am a Muslim’ – how is it that you are [working] in parallel with the disbeliever? Why are you, along with the disbelievers, trying to strike a Muslim society?

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“We do not think with good intentions about those who strike Muslims alongside the disbelievers. Nor do we see good intentions there.”

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The Middle East War > Strike 5 - day 2 - Israeli planes hammer south Lebanon for another day

 

More than 550 killed, 1,800 injured as Israel

continues air campaign against Hezbollah

By Paul Godfrey

Rescuers at work Tuesday in a six-story residential building after an Israeli military strike on the Ghobeiry district in the southern suburbs of Beirut, where a number of people were said to have been injured. Media in Israel and Lebanon reported that Israel Defense Forces were trying to kill the head of Hezbollah's missile unit, but the IDF said only that it had conducted a "targeted strike" in Beirut. Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA-EFE

Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The death toll in Lebanon from a major outbreak of cross-border conflict between Israel and Hezbollah climbed to 558 including at least 50 children and 94 women, with more than 1,800 injured as the fighting entered a second day.

"We remain in the war and remain in the throes of the attacks. Our responsibilities have not ended," Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad told a news conference in Beirut on Tuesday.

Abiad said four first responders were among those killed after 14 ambulances and firetrucks were hit by Israeli forces with the total number of people injured on Monday alone standing at 1,835.

So, does that mean that more than 1800 were injured on each day?

Lebanese government coordinator of emergency preparedness Nasser Yassine told CNN that airstrikes had forced 16,500 people to flee their homes in the past day with 150 schools being converted into temporary shelters for the displaced.

The grim statistics came as Israel said it had completed a second wave of airstrikes across the Bekaa Valley, east of Beirut, and southern Lebanon designed to degrade Hezbollah's capability to fire rockets into its territory.

"Among the targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization were buildings in which weapons were stored, command centers and additional terrorist infrastructure sites," Israel Defense Forces said.

The IDF pointed to secondary explosions that it had identified as proof that "large amounts of weapons were stored in the buildings."

Israeli fighter squadrons had flown hundreds of "attack sorties" over the past day targeting 1,500 terrorist infrastructures in the interior and south of Lebanon with almost 2,000 weapons to "remove a threat and harm the capabilities of Hezbollah," the Israeli Air Force said in a post on X.

However, Hezbollah continued firing at Israel throughout Monday with more than 100 rockets fired at the north.

Incoming rocket sirens went off in Afula, Nazareth and other communities across northern Israel around 2:40 a.m. local time on Tuesday.

In Lebanon, reports emerged mid-afternoon local time of people injured in an airstrike on a residential block in the Beirut suburbs that was supposedly directed at the head of Hezbollah's missile unit, the Times of Israel reported.

Times of Israel reported that it was unknown if the commander was caught in the attack on the known Hezbollah stronghold in the suburb of Dahiyeh but noted that it was the fifth time Israel had struck the capital since the current upsurge in the conflict.

The Guardian reported the National News Agency as saying a number of people had been hurt in the attack that targeted a six-story building in the Ghobeiry district of the capital.

Rescue teams were working to reach residents trapped in the building in which three floors were destroyed with footage circulating online showing an angry crowd in a smoke-filled, debris-strewn road in the city with a body atop a car that appeared to have been blown out of the building by the blast.

Aides to U.S. President Joe Biden said he was working around the clock to de-escalate the situation.

Biden has never really contributed anything to the resolution of the Middle East conflict. As long as he, or Harris, think a two-state solution will solve anything, they will never contribute anything useful.

Ahead of an address he was scheduled to make to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday in New York, the BBC reported that the administration was planning to take the opportunity presented by having world leaders in one place at the same time to "try to find an off-ramp."

Washington had "concrete ideas" to head off the crisis, a senior official was quoted as saying.

The developments came as the Pentagon responded to the crisis with the announcement on Monday that it was deploying a "small" but unspecified number of additional U.S. troops to the region to "augment" forces already there on the ground.

EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell warned Monday of full-fledged war.

"Escalation is extremely dangerous and worrying. I can say that we are almost in a full-fledged war. We're seeing more military strikes, more damage, more collateral damage, more victims."

Civilians in Lebanon were paying an "intolerable, unacceptable price," he added.

Israel launched what it called "extensive strikes" targeting Hezbollah weapons hidden inside people's homes early Monday issuing warnings to civilians living in or near buildings used by the Iran-backed group to leave, in what it said was a response to signs Hezbollah was preparing to fire toward Israel.

However, it later said the strikes were part of an operation to stop an Oct. 7-type invasion by Hezbollah of northern Israel called "Conquer the Galilee" that would see its fighters infiltrate communities and massacre civilians.