The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated the Orthodox church of St. Ephraim in Istanbul, as reported by Manolis Kostidis.

It is the first Christian temple built in the history of the Turkish republic, said the director of communication of the Turkish presidency, Fahrettin Altun.

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Erdogan’s threats to the US

Erdogan’s threats to the US for shooting down the Turkish drone. “We recorded it in our national memory, when the time comes we will do the right thing,” he said while accusing the US of cooperating with terrorists under the pretext of fighting ISIS.

Erdogan said: “And in this operation, the biggest problem we experienced was with our allied country, which finds the fight against the Islamic State as an excuse and supports the terrorist organization.

For years we have been warning the forces close to terrorist organizations to stay away from them. And in this operation we made the same warnings through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense and also the MIT.

And we proceeded with this business with such sensitivity as if we were ‘pulling white hair out of milk’. But we could not prevent an ugly event that our allies described as ‘regrettable’. There is no doubt that this event was recorded in our national memory and when the time comes, the right thing will definitely be done.”

“Jerusalem is calm under our leadership”

“Jerusalem was calm and peaceful under our leadership. Now it is full of conflict and blood,” Erdogan said, blaming Israel for the bombing of Gaza. However, he added: “If similar events happened in the cities of Israel, it is not possible for us to approve it.”

Said Erdoğan: “In the greater Jerusalem area, people of all faiths lived calmly and peacefully under the leadership of our forefathers. After the First World War and our forced withdrawal, this area turned into one that is not without blood, occupation, tears, tension and conflict. The destruction of Gaza with the asymmetric bombings, the bombing of mosques and the death of children, women, civilians is something that is unacceptable. If similar scenes were created in the attacks against Israeli cities, we also do not approve of it. And war has a morality and a way of behaving. All sides have an obligation to respect it.”

Protests in Turkey and satisfaction over the terrorist attack by Hamas

Demonstrators donned shrouds and marched outside Israel’s consulate in Istanbul.

“The police that always prevent the gatherings, now they simply did not exist,” wrote Cumhuriyet commenting.

“Strike, strike Israel. Strike Israel again.
Israel was murdered. Long live Palestine!

Salih Turhan, president of the Anatolia Youth Union said: “Today, thank God, when we woke up, as Ismail Haniyeh had stated, our Palestinian brothers gave us the news of the Fall! On the one hand, the blood of the Palestinians was spilled, but on the other hand, our brothers entered Zionist Israel in such a triumphant way that they brought down their castle with the sounds of Allah Akbar. They said that they cannot deal with them, that they have powerful intelligence services.”

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken deleted his X message about the phone conversation with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. The expressions “truce and exchange of hostages with Hamas” angered Washington.

The HaberTurk host reported: “Blinken had posted a message about his conversation with Hakan Fidan and had talked about the possibility of a truce and encouraging Turkey to exchange hostages. He wrote this after the terrorist attack by Hamas. A hope was created as soon as we saw the word of truce. But Blinken saved this message on twitter and that doesn’t happen often. Yes, there were reactions in the Republican Party. As a part of them could not accept a truce with the terrorist organization of Hamas. So Anthony Blinken was forced to delete their message as, apart from the truce, he was also talking about the exchange of hostages”.