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Western intelligence source to 'Post': Turkey aims to activate the Syrian T4 air base

This comes amid the growing cooperation between Ahmed al-Sharaa's regime in Syria and the government of Turkish President Erdogan.

 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa (L) shake hands as they hold a joint press conference after their meeting at Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkiye on February 4, 2025.
 Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a press briefing during NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington, US, July 11, 2024.

There he goes again: Erdogan threatens Israel to suit domestic agenda - analysis

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, October 25, 2023.

‘Jews not allowed’: As Erdogan praises Hamas, antisemitism rises on the ground in Turkey

President Isaac Herzog met with Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara March 9, 2022.

President Isaac Herzog congratulates Turkey's Erdogan on election victory


Turkey’s media radicalizes anti-Israel voices - analysis

Unlike Iran, where there is not an outpouring of online anti-Israel hate, Turkey has a huge social media presence, some of it linked to the ruling party

Supporters of Turkey counter-protest members of the Armenian diaspora as they rally in front of the Turkish Embassy after U.S. President Joe Biden recognized that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide in Washington, US, April 24, 2021.

Katz to UAE official: Erdogan hates Israel, relatives benefit from trade

“I said that in this region there are ‘frenemies,’ and that it is possible to disagree on one thing, but cooperate on another.,” Katz said.

TURKISH PRESIDENT Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a protest against the recent killings of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza-Israel border and the US embassy move to Jerusalem, in Istanbul, Turkey on May 18.

Netanyahu channels Martin Luther King to rebuff 'anti-Zionists'

“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking antisemitism.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Know comment: Thwart Turkey's Jerusalem incursion

Turkish flags today fly everywhere in eastern Jerusalem and prominently on the Mount, too. Photos of the fiercely anti-Israel and openly antisemitic Erdogan adorn shops throughout the Old City.

TURKISH PRESIDENT Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a protest against the recent killings of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza-Israel border and the US embassy move to Jerusalem, in Istanbul, Turkey on May 18.

Erdogan: 'Time for us to take a physical stance on Israel'

In a wide-ranging speech, Erdogan encouraged Muslim unity as a force to defeat the 'occupation of Jerusalem, the violation of the rights of the folks in Palestine.'

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during a ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey May 4, 2018

Erdogan’s alliance

Erdogan’s attack on Israel and the US is his way of shifting attention away from his many political problems.

TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife, Emine, arrive for the G-20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany.

Erdogan: Turkey seeking to annul Trump decision on Jerusalem at UN

"We will work for the annulment of this unjust decision firstly at the UN Security Council, and if a veto comes from there, the General Assembly," Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said.

Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, in Istanbul, Turkey December 8, 2017.

Turkey's Erdogan expected to spit fire at OIC meeting on Jerusalem

FM Cavusoglu: "Some countries are very timid about the US."

US President Donald Trump alongside Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan: US is 'partner in bloodshed' with Jerusalem move

"The ones who made Jerusalem a dungeon for Muslims and members of other religions will never be able to clean the blood from their hands," he said in a speech in Ankara.

TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets the audience during a ceremony to mark the 16th anniversary of his ruling AK Party’s foundation in Ankara, August 14.

Netanyahu says Israel will not be lectured to by the likes of Erdogan

“I am not used to receiving lectures about morality from the leader who bombs Kurdish villagers in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, who helps Iran go around international sanctions..."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan