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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a human rights-themed event hosted by his Islamist AKP political party in the Turkish capital of Ankara, August 5, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Türkiye Canlı, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 15, 2025, 4:08 pm
Israel rebuffs ‘imperialist’ Turkey after Erdogan says it must withdraw from Syria
Turkish leader warns of an ‘unfavorable outcome for everyone’ if IDF troops don’t leave buffer area they entered after fall of Assad regime
By Amy Spiro, ToI Staff and Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands as they pose for photos during a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 3, 2024. (Sergey Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
December 20, 2024, 7:41 pm
With Syrian regime’s collapse, Turkey gains the upper hand in rivalry with Russia
Despite mutual respect, Putin and Erdogan find themselves on opposing sides of conflicts across the globe, with the score now ‘Sultans 1 and Czars 0’ after Assad ousted
By AP
In this handout picture released by the Iranian presidential office, heads of state and delegates pose for a group picture during the D-8 summit in Cairo, on December 19, 2024. (IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP)
December 19, 2024, 11:01 pm
At Cairo summit, Muslim leaders envision Syria free of ethnic tensions, and of Israel
At D-8 conference of Muslim nations, Iran’s Pezeshkian blames Israel for regional turmoil, PA’s Abbas demands Jerusalem be ‘held accountable and punished’ for actions across region
By AFP and ToI Staff
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (C-R) gestures to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (5th-R) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C-L) after a group picture during the D-8 summit in Cairo on December 19, 2024. (IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP)
December 19, 2024, 2:36 pm
Egypt hosts Turkish, Iranian leaders as part of Muslim summit; Abbas also to attend
Special sessions on Gaza and Lebanon to be held; event will be first meeting between leaders of anti-Assad Turkey and pro-Assad Iran since overthrow of Syrian regime
By AFP and ToI Staff
Troops of the Israeli Air Force's elite Shaldag unit are seen atop the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, in a photo published December 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 13, 2024, 2:46 pm
Katz says IDF troops will stay atop Syrian side of Mount Hermon during winter months
As Syrians celebrate first Friday since Assad’s downfall, US and Turkey agree to keep ensuring Islamic State won’t ‘rear its head again,’ amid international gestures to rebel leader
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (not pictured) at the Ministry headquarters in the Turkish capital Ankara, December 13, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)
December 13, 2024, 2:15 pm
In Turkey, Blinken reports ‘encouraging signs’ Gaza hostage-truce deal is possible
Secretary of state says DC appreciates Ankara’s ‘voice with Hamas’ after terror group reportedly agrees to temporary IDF presence in Gaza, provided list of hostages to be released
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a press conference during the G20 Leaders' Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 19, 2024. (Luis Robayo/AFP)
November 23, 2024, 6:10 pm
Erdogan calls ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant ‘courageous’
Turkey’s Islamist president, who has been outspoken in support of Hamas, says warrants ‘renew the trust of humanity in the international system’
By AFP and ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog (left) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential complex in Ankara, on March 9, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)
November 20, 2024, 12:41 am
Erdogan admits to barring Herzog’s flight to COP29 from using Turkish airspace
Turkey’s decision prevented president from attending UN climate conference in Azerbaijan, as other route would have meant crossing over Syria, Iraq and Iran
By ToI Staff
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, shake hands during their meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, April 20, 2024. (Turkish Presidency via AP)
November 18, 2024, 11:36 pm
US warns Turkey against harboring Hamas leaders who left Qatar
‘We don’t believe the leaders of a vicious terrorist organization should be living comfortably anywhere,’ especially in a major city of a US ally, says State Department spokesman
By Reuters and Jacob Magid
Besiktas midfielder Ekrem Dag (R) vies with Maccabi Tel-Aviv's forward Roberto Colautti (L) during an UEFA Europa League Group E football match at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv on December 1, 2011. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)
November 4, 2024, 10:22 pm
Turkish soccer club moves home game against Maccabi Tel Aviv to ‘neutral country’
Besiktas says seeking suitable location for match, considered high-risk given Erdogan’s attacks on Israel and its leaders since Hamas massacre in Israel and start of Gaza war
By AFP and ToI Staff
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends Outreach/BRICS Plus format session at the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, October 24, 2024. (Maxim Shemetov, Pool Photo via AP)
November 3, 2024, 6:33 pm
Turkey presses UN for arms embargo on Israel in joint letter with 52 countries
Russia, China, Iran among signatories of missive, which comes a month after Erdogan’s similar demand to UN; Turkish FM: ‘Selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide’
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this July 2016 photo, Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen speaks to members of the media at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Chris Post)
October 21, 2024, 12:51 pm
Turkish cleric Gulen, accused of orchestrating coup against Erdogan, dies in US at 83
Website affiliated with the influential Islamic leader, who lived in self-imposed exile in the US since 1999, says he died Sunday at the hospital where he was being treated
By Daren Butler
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) shake hands following a joint press conference after their meeting at the Dolmabahce Presidental Office in Istanbul on October 19, 2024. (Ozan KOSE / AFP)
October 19, 2024, 10:24 pm
Scholz, Erdogan clash over Mideast war as they progress on sale of fighter jets
German chancellor rejects Turkish leader’s claim Israel committing genocide in Gaza, asserts Jewish state has right to defend itself, calls for ceasefire-hostage deal
By AFP
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas leads a prayer in memory of those killed in Gaza at the start of a Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee meeting in Ramallah on October 17, 2024. (Wafa)
October 19, 2024, 1:55 am
Abbas’s PLO mourns ‘martyrdom’ of Hamas chief Sinwar, a ‘great national leader’
PA president’s Fatah also offers condolences to terror group; so does Turkish foreign minister as he hosts Hamas representatives
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a human rights-themed event hosted by his Islamist AKP political party in the Turkish capital of Ankara, August 5, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Türkiye Canlı, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 12, 2024, 8:11 pm
Erdogan: Russia, Iran, Syria must take measures against Israel after alleged Damascus strike
Turkish president says Israel ‘most concrete threat to regional, global peace’ after airstrike targeted top Hezbollah official from unit tasked with delivering weapons from Iran
By Reuters and ToI Staff
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