Islamist pres Erdogan: Israeli "attack" on al-Aqsa is an attack on Turkey

Islamist pres Erdogan: Israeli "attack" on al-Aqsa is an attack on Turkey. (TZ).

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reiterated Ankara's stern position on an Israeli incursion into the Temple mount, which houses al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest place, declaring that the Israeli attack on the mosque is tantamount to an attack on Turkey.

Speaking in Algeria, Erdoğan said, "Israel's barbaric attack on al-Aqsa Mosque is tantamount to an attack on Turkey and Algeria because al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to all of us."

Addressing Turkish and Algerian businessmen at a joint business forum, the president said they cannot remain indifferent to both the Israeli incursion as well as the "Palestinian cause." In a bid to justify his Middle East policies, often regarded as an intervention into domestic affairs of neighboring nations, Erdoğan said the problems of Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Syria, similar to Palestine, need to be handled "as a whole" and in a "brotherly sense."

Turkey had previously strongly condemned the Israeli incursion into the Noble Sanctuary and called on other Muslim countries to display a joint position to protest the actions of Israel, currently at odds with Turkish government. Hmmm....The 'Muslim Brotherhood Caliph' is giving the Sign for the final attack on Israel.