{"id":18998,"date":"2015-05-18T11:08:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T09:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=18998"},"modified":"2015-05-19T09:20:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T07:20:29","slug":"turkish-president-wants-focus-on-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=18998","title":{"rendered":"Turkish president wants focus on Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing in the western media covered what the Turkish Anadulu Agency released, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/shoebat.com\/2015\/05\/15\/erdogan-of-turkey-just-gave-a-speech-asking-his-people-to-elect-his-party-because-he-aims-to-invade-jerusalem\/\">speech <\/a>this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan called on all Turks to refocus on the Ottoman goal to re-conquer Jerusalem for Islam:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately we the Muslims lost our aim to head towards Jerusalem. The water of our eyes froze making us blind, and our hearts that was destined to beat for Jerusalem is now instead conditioned for rivalry being in a state of war with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan\u2019s desire to end strife and unite Sunnis and Shiites to aim towards Jerusalem was made in the state of Erzincan, central Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish president called on citizens to \u201craise their hands in supplication for this blessed night towards Allah to restore the Al-Aqsa Mosque [Jerusalem] to be re-owned by Muslims, and to remove the mist from their eyes, to see Jerusalem in their hands at every moment and at every opportunity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan added: \u201cWhen you mention the word ascension; the first thing that comes to mind is Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque,\u201d while he expressed deep regret for the condition of Muslim heedlessness for Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Such reflections were also made by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu recently, that \u201cJerusalem belongs to the Muslims, not to the Jews,\u201d while criticizing the leader of the co-party Peoples Democratic opposition, Salahuddin Dmirattash, in which he said in opposition to the Islamist rhetoric of Davutoglu.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan also said that he wanted Spain. Tariq Bin Ziad, the conqueror of Spain, the tyrant Alp Arslan, and Saladin are the Muslim leaders who fought Christendom and Saladin was the one who conquered Jerusalem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing in the western media covered what the Turkish Anadulu Agency released, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a speech this Friday. Erdogan called on all Turks to refocus on the Ottoman goal to re-conquer Jerusalem for Islam: \u201cUnfortunately we the Muslims lost our aim to head towards Jerusalem. The water of our eyes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=18998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turkish president wants focus on Jerusalem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":19000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[70,914,178,5558,11735,1632],"class_list":["post-18998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-eu","tag-islam","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-ottoman-empire","tag-turkey"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/erdogan2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19001,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998\/revisions\/19001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}