The unspoken details of Erdogan’s meeting with the Jewish rabbis in Ankara.
Following the Turkish President’s recent meeting with a group of rabbis in Ankara and his emphasis on the need for relations with Tel Aviv, the rabbis provided details of their meeting with the Turkish President, which were not mentioned in the Turkish Presidential Palace statement.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently met with a group of rabbis at the Presidential Palace, which provoked a lot of reactions.
Al-Mayadin news website recently reported that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday welcomed a group of rabbis to talk about “the importance of Turkish-Israeli relations for regional security and stability.” What surprised inside and outside Turkey.
The statement quoted Erdogan as saying that he “praised his repeated phone calls with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett” and called on the rabbis to “talk to Turkey. “And let Israel have an active presence.”
The Turkish Presidential Press Office said in a statement: “In addition to the chairman and secretary general of the so-called ‘Rabbi of the Islamic Countries’ coalition, Erdogan’s delegation included senior members of the Turkish Jewish social and religious community (20) and many rabbis. Uzbekistan, Albania, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia (with the presence of Berl Lazar, the Russian high rabbi who is said to have very close ties to Putin), Uganda, Egypt, the UAE, the Turkish part of Cyprus and the Jewish rabbi of Iran. “They lived in New York.”
According to a statement from the Turkish Presidential Palace Press Office, the President “greeted the rabbis and reminded them that after the conquest of Istanbul by Muhammad the Conqueror, the expulsion of Jews from Spain after the fall of Andalusia in 1492 and the escape of Jews from Hitler’s oppression. “The Ottoman government has always welcomed Jews.”
