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Turkish anti-Israeli sentiments

by HAMID52 | January 25, 2009 at 02:03 am

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In Turkey, angry spectators shouted at Israeli basketball players and shoved them to escape from the sport complex during a basketball match. They clashed with police that was trying to calm down the crowd.

At the same time, Turkish parliament announced the Turkish-Israeli parliamentarian friendship group dissolved.

Hurriyet daily Turkish news paper disclosed that leaders of five American Jewish groups sent a letter to the Turkish prime minister expressing their concern on the rise of anti-Zionist sentiments in Turkey.

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Uwe Paschen

at 05:14 on January 25th, 2009

We do not hear much about Turkey and where it does stand on a great many issues with global implications. Thank you for the post.

Could you please include the source of this news. Thank you.

tikun

at 06:21 on January 25th, 2009

This basketball incident is a few weeks old. It got play in Israel. Also, the Turkish PM was very upset that Israel did not warn him before hand about the Gaza war. He was involved in Syria-Israeli talks and he felt personally caught by surprised and got real testy about it. As a result, he made some statements that have strained relations. But we will see what happens. Turkey and Israel share billions in economic ties.

tikun

at 06:23 on January 25th, 2009

Tha basketball match was a Euro-league match and it appeared to be a set up. the accounts from the incident felt that most of the raucous were not from regular fans of the basketball team. Usually the international competition stays out of politics.