Another 'Zionist plot' - Tulip seeds imported from Israel for gardens of Erdoğan’s lavish palace.

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Another 'Zionist plot' - Tulip seeds imported from Israel for gardens of Erdoğan’s lavish palace. (Bugun).

The gardens of the lavish 1000-room 1.4 billion TL Presidential Palace Ak Saray has been decorated with tulips seeds originating from Israel, claims Chamber of Architects Ankara President Candan, in the latest controversy surrounding the palace.

According to Chambers of Architects Ankara President Tezcan Karakuş Candan over 100,000 seasonal tulips costing TL 400,000 have been planted at the gardens of the Presidential Palace Ak Saray. “We believe that the seeds of these are from Israel," he said, noting that 90% of the landscaping -- fruit trees included -- imported from other countries also come from Israel.

The Chamber of Architects Ankara President also noted that the gardens of the palace are decorated with seasonal plants, changing every three months. “We only looked at the tulips planted at the gardens for three months, but the cost other plants, and the requirements for different seasons we estimate the cost to cost over TL 1.5 million.”

Aside from being a budget hog, the presidential palace was built on a preserve forest area, in spite of a court order against the construction. Citing a lack of disclosure on the exact expenditures of AK Saray, Candan expressed, “We will continue to share the information we get to the public.” Hmmm.....If it is indeed seeds they planted it will take years to bloom, I expect the 'Zionist plot' theories to bloom way faster........On the other hand if they bought bulbs......G_d knows whats hidden in those things by the Mossad?

Dutch Justice Ministry Employee Claims ISIS is a Zionist Conspiracy to give Islam a bad reputation.

Dutch Justice Ministry Employee Claims ISIS is a Zionist Conspiracy to give Islam a bad reputation.HT: Forward.

An employee of the Dutch Justice Ministry said the jihadist group ISIS was created by Zionists seeking to give Islam a bad reputation.

Yasmina Haifi, a project leader at the ministry’s National Cyber Security Center, made the assertion Wednesday on Twitter, the De Telegraaf daily reported.

“ISIS has nothing to do with Islam. It’s part of a plan by Zionists who are deliberately trying to blacken Islam’s name,” wrote Haifi, who described herself on the social network LinkedIn as an activist for the Dutch Labor party, or PvdA.

She later removed her original message, explaining, “I realize the political sensitivity in connection with my work. That was not my intention.”

Two right-wing lawmakers have asked the ministry how a person with such views reached a prominent position within the ministry. The lawmakers, Joram van Klaveren and Louis Bontes of the VNL faction, asked whether the minister thought Haifi’s employment constituted a security risk.

ISIS, which is considered a terrorist organization in many Western countries, has been in the news in the Netherlands because of a series of pro-ISIS demonstrations in the Hague in July and earlier this month. Some demonstrators called for violence.

,, I did not invent it myself, I've read articles about it. There is enough evidence for a link between ISIS and Israel, "said Haifi in The News BV. They would not comment on whether her theory is not just a hoax. ,, I want to play no-yes-no game."

Haifi invoked the freedom of expression: ,, certain things obviously should not be said. I have taken the liberty to express myself. I'm not someone who runs away to his own opinion. I stand for what I say.

An officer also has the right to express his opinion "Haifi is shocked by what has come down on her since her infamous tweet: ,, I had no idea that my tweet would cause such reactions.".

The employer of Haifi, the Ministry of Security and Justice, said she has been suspended with immediate effect.

On Radio 1 she said she was not informed of the suspension by the Ministry. Haifi works at the National Cyber ​​Security Center.

Video - Lebanese Sunni Journalist: Salafists are the Children of Israel !

Media director, entrepreneur and journalist Salem Zahran in a heated debate with Salafist cleric Omar Bakri on Lebanon’s OTV. Zahran emphasizes that visiting shrines such as the Zainab shrine in Damascus is a traditional Sunni custom in stark parallel with Salafism which seeks to destroy them. He further goes on to cite the early founder of Sunni Islam, Imam al-Shafi’i on Shiites.

Iranian parliament debating 'leggings are not pants'.

Iranian parliament debating 'leggings are not pants'.(IranWire).

Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli was summoned to parliament to answer questions about why more measures have not been taken to prevent women from wearing leggings in public.

In the open session, members of parliament were shown pictures of women in leggings, called “support” in Iran. The elastic, skin-tight garments, typically worn by women who loosely observe Iran’s modesty and hijab laws, have irked some religious conservatives.

Parliament members Ali Motahhari and Mousavi Largani summoned Rahmani Fazli today, June 24, to answer two questions:

1.Why has he been indifferent toward leggings-clad women in Tehran and other cities?

2.Why has he been lax in implementing the law to expand the culture of modesty and hijab use, and why has the small budget to enforce this law been eliminated?

Once only worn for aerobics classes, leggings have become standard fashion in cities across Iran, showing up in clothing stores everywhere, sold in home legging shows, and spawning a domestic market in Iranian-made leggings and a glut of imports from both Turkey and China. As Iranian women continue to push the boundaries of what can be worn within the state's strict dress codes, looks that were risque even a decade ago are becoming, by sheer force of mass determination, ordinary today.

The nationwide popularity of leggings however, is provoking a backlash from hardline bloggers and religious websites, who fear the onslaught of tight pants is perilous for the country's morals. “This year women's fashion has changed yet again,” laments the conservative website Fater News. 

“They are now wearing leggings instead of pants altogether, not even tight jeans!” The website News Base of Supporters of Velayat blames the trend on “spy agencies of the enemy and anti-revolutionaries.”

The newest front in Iran's long-running fashion wars is also being waged on social media, where devotees and angry critics are battling it out on Facebook pages like Supporters of Leggings-Wearers and I Hate Leggings, which worries that “what we're seeing now with leggings is only the first phase of a horrifying project intended to denude Iranian women and normalize such an effort before officials.” The page also uses a play on words for the Persian term for leggings (“support”) to suggest that wearing them is equivalent to supporting free sex.

It's not only modern women who are into leggings. A survey of religious sites affiliated with the seminaries of Qom suggests that traditional women are also fans, and often wear leggings with their families' approval. One woman enquired on a religious site as to Islam's view on leggings: “I've been wearing leggings outside the house instead of pants for a couple of weeks now, and my husband doesn't mind. I wanted to ask, is it all right to wear leggings, and these new tight manteau that are figure hugging?”

The response of religious sites to such questions is usually pretty clear, and bears the authority of senior clerics who are considered sources of emulation: “Apparel that provokes lust, the attention of men who are not direct relatives, clothes that are vice-inducing, or that pave the way for sin, wearing such clothes outside the house, before non-relatives, is not correct or permissible. A manteau that is figure revealing, in that it reveals the outline of limbs, is also haram before a man who is not your husband, father, or brother.”

Hardline and conservative bloggers and websites are recently besides themselves. One blogger, writing on Facebook, sought to find out how leggings caught on in Iran, and concluded that satellite television was to blame, specifically the popular Googoosh Music Academy show.

 “I sat and watched the entire season, and I noticed that in every sequence, on every show, the women are wearing leggings! Now I know from where we've been struck.”

He goes on to write about two women arrested in Tehran's Vanak Square for wearing leggings patterned with the Israeli flag.

Iran's religiously radical blogosphere, from news sites to blogs, is rife with such legging hysteria.Read the full story here.

'Mission Impossible' for Turkey's Ambassadors

'Mission Impossible' for Turkey's Ambassadors.(AL Monitor). By Cengiz Candar.

For some six years, Turkey's ambassadors in all corners of the globe have been coming to Ankara in the second week of January to listen to top officials of the country and other speakers deemed appropriate by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

Since the tendency in Turkey is to see the diplomatic elite as "Westernized," after the Ankara meeting, the ambassadors are taken on a tour of Anatolia. This is the way the AKP government has come up with to train this group of people, who are seen as removed from national values or over cosmopolitan because of their Westernized orientation to the realities of their homeland.

This time, the ambassadors first met in Ankara Jan. 15 before traveling to the Adana and Mersin provinces, not far from the Syrian border. The feature of this sixth session that set it apart from earlier ones was Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's lecture, which sounded like an appeal for help from the ambassadors.

Erdogan faces lots of dilemmas these days. Although he uprooted and reassigned thousands of policemen in the middle of the winter in reaction to the graft probe launched in December, an investigation he labeled a "coup" against his government, and took suppressive and restrictive actions against prosecutors and judges and reassigned some prosecutors, the prime minister has not been freed from his troubles.

While the graft probe was inhibited, the police refused to carry out instructions to pursue the investigations and the prosecutors responsible for the investigations were transferred to other posts, the media began receiving tapes of Erdogan's telephone conversations. The tapes were obviously leaked to give the impression of illegal or dubious acts. They seem to be working.

The course Erdogan chose to combat these developments is a tough one. He has been able, by the exhaustive use and even abuse of executive powers, to carry out his "bureaucratic cleansing," but he couldn't find any way to change the structure of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) and fully control the judiciary. 

The structure of HSYK was changed with a constitutional referendum that won 58% support in 2010. It won't be easy for Erdogan to again change the structure of the HSYK three years later without amending the constitution. The European Union sees his efforts as Turkey giving up on the supremacy of law and the independence of the judiciary.

And what did Erdogan come up with to prevent the leaking of his telephone conversations, which could lead to questions about the legitimacy of his actions? He decided to enact an "Internet law" that would put Turkey in the same category as China, Saudi Arabia and Iran, which will not be well received in Europe.

For today's Turkey to totally turn its back on Europe is not that easy an option, even if Erdogan is willing to let his country turn away from the European model and become more like the rest of the Middle East.

For Erdogan, the best way to preserve and sustain his rule is to persuade the outside world, especially the West, that the corruption probe is nothing but a coup attempt by disciples of Fethullah Gulen's faith community.

This is why he is now trying to enlist Turkey's diplomatic elite. When lecturing the ambassadors, he said the changes the government is trying to make in the judiciary do not amount to intervention, but a struggle against the "illicit structure" within the judiciary. 

He explained, "The real nature of this organization must be deciphered and exposed also outside of this country. It is important for your audience to well understand this unlawful organization whose structure, activities, goals and desires are clearly known and whose perils have become obvious. 

The empire of fear this organization has been building within the state security and judiciary bodies in such areas as politics, economy, finance and trade must be well explained. We want you to especially emphasize that the systematic conveying of information in English and other languages to foreign countries is nothing but disinformation and should not be given credit. We will of course do our part to discredit that disinformation. But the real burden, the real responsibility is undoubtedly on your shoulders, the ambassadors."

Erdogan has thus placed an extremely heavy burden on Turkey's ambassadors. The same ambassadors for many years have been under instructions to promote the schools and activities of the Gulen movement as Turkey's "biggest and most effective lobbying operation" and to support them.

At this point, an article by Abdulrahman al-Rashed under the title "Erdogan's Arab allies disappointed" seem applicable. Rashed wrote, "Using his jurisdiction as prime minister, Erdogan fired those who investigated him, his ministers and their sons in the case of the Iranian funds. He also presented a bill to place the judiciary under the supervision of the head of the government -- that is under his supervision! 

If the judiciary, police and media are all corrupt, then what state did Erdogan govern? If the Gulen movement is under suspicion and taking orders from the US government, then how did he ally with it and achieve governance all these years?"

If the ambassadors are asked these questions, how are they to answer?

The alleged coup is alternately referred to by Erdogan and his spokesmen in the Turkish media as a "global assassination," "international conspiracy" of US, US-Israeli, or Western origin in general. The Gulen movement -- according to such allegations -- is no more than a heinous domestic instrument used to implement the international plot against Erdogan or Turkey itself.

But then, aren't some of the listeners our ambassadors are to brief representatives of this "international conspiracy?"

Erdogan saved his strongest ripostes for accusations that Turkey had been assisting al-Qaeda elements in Syria. As expected, he denied those charges outright, saying in his speech to the ambassadors, "The gangs of treachery are carrying out a dastardly campaign to spread the perception that Turkey is aiding international terror ... with al-Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra or whatever. All of those are actually against us, and we are against them."

The same day Erdogan was saying this, The Wall Street Journal and the BBC reported that some European intelligence services had been to Damascus several times since November, although Syrian government sources claim the conversations dealt with counter-terrorism cooperation on jihadists coming to Syria from Europe.

Also on the same day, the Erdogan government reassigned within hours the anti-terror police official who carried out an operation against al-Qaeda network in the town of Kilis. A day before, the Syrian town of Tal Abiyad, right on the Turkish border, and its provincial capital Raqqa had fallen under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS).

It is true that Turkey has taken a position against ISIS. But how firmly Turkey opposes al-Qaeda's other Syrian extension, Jabhat al-Nusra, and the Islamic Front, which have been clashing with ISIS, needs to be elaborated.

At least, we now know that Western intelligence services have chosen Turkey's key foe, Damascus, as a partner in cooperation against al-Qaeda.

This outlook will make it difficult not only for Erdogan to find support for his claims of a coup, but also for our ambassadors, who the prime minister has designated as the real carriers of the burden.

Erdogan's 'Islamic Turkey' enforces Internet & news censorship off protests across Turkey.

Erdogan's 'Islamic Turkey' enforces Internet censorship off protests across Turkey. Istanbul,Izmir,Ankara,Samsun,Bursa,Antalya,Mersin,Denizli,Eskisehir,Izmit,Antakya.

EU may halt negotiations with Erdogan's Turkey, but does not want to.

EU may halt negotiations with Erdogan's Turkey, but does not want to.(Taz).

European Union Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Füle has warned that the EU may halt negotiations with Turkey but that the EU does not want to do it because it would be a difficult process to restart once you halt the negotiations, according to sources, Today's Zaman reported.

Füle had a meeting on Tuesday with the members of the Friends of Turkey in the European Parliament (EP), and his warning about the possibility of halting Turkey's EU negotiations came up during this meeting, Today's Zaman has learned. Friends of Turkey is an informal group founded by members of the EP with the main interest of following the negotiation process between the EU and Turkey through a critical and constructive approach.

According to EU sources, Füle said the EU does not want to halt the negotiations with Turkey because once you freeze the process it would be very difficult to restart.

At the meeting in which eight deputies from the Friends of Turkey group and many bureaucrats attended, Füle said 2014 has not started well for Turkey and that the Dec. 17 corruption operation is a "highly complex investigation," without elaborating much.

According to sources talking to Today's Zaman, Füle also said what the Turkish government is doing with regards to the corruption investigation is damaging the independence of the judiciary and the separation of powers.

A police operation was launched on Dec. 17 in which state-run Halkbank General Manager Süleyman Aslan, Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab and the sons of two Cabinet ministers were arrested along with 20 other suspects.

When the corruption investigation erupted, the prime minister sought to discredit the investigation by calling it a "foreign plot" and "an attempt to damage the government made by a parallel state nested within the state."

He immediately ordered the removal of hundreds of police officers who had contributed to the probe. The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) initiated an investigation into four prosecutors involved in the corruption probe, and two of the prosecutors were removed from the case.

In addition, the government issued a proposal to restructure the HSYK. If adopted, the bill will give the government a tighter grip on the judiciary, according to legal experts.

Füle tweeted on Monday he had asked the Turkish "authorities [to] consult relevant amendments to laws before adoption to make sure they're in line with principles of EU legislation."

Speaking to Today's Zaman on Thursday, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks also said that adopting a government-endorsed bill to restructure the HSYK is a huge step backwards for Turkey that not only undermines the independence and impartiality of the judiciary and transfers certain powers to the executive but will also undermine public trust and confidence in the judiciary.

When speaking to the Friends of Turkey group, Füle said he talked to President Abdullah Gül and Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan on the phone recently and highlighted the issues about which EU is concerned, such as police reassignments, HSYK restructuring and removing certain prosecutors from the investigations.

Liberal Democrat member of the EP for the Southwest of England Graham Watson, who was in the same meeting with Füle, also said center-right parties may ask to halt the EU negotiations with Turkey in the coming days and the center left may support it.

"Turkey will not give up pursuing EU membership," said Turkey's EU Affairs Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Friday at the plenary session of the Economic Development Foundation (İKV).
"The EU is the biggest modernization project for Turkey. In order to have success in Turkey's EU process, we need a timetable rather than good will remarks. The process should not be open ended," Çavuşoğlu added.
Çavuşoğlu said that the messages coming from the EU in 2013 were positive, and what Turkey wants from EU officials is to approach Turkey without any prejudice, see the positive progress and talk about the shortcomings openly.Hmmmm.......Turkish foreign Minister: Democracy strengthening is priority for Turkey......yeah sure.

Video - History Flashback 1996 - Turkish Pm Erdogan : "Democracy is like a train. We shall get out when we arrive at the station we want."

Video - Historical Vid 1996 - Turkish Pm Erdogan :"Democracy is like a train. We shall get out when we arrive at the station we want."

In this chilling speech Tayyip Erdogan explains how to manipulate democracy to pave the way towards an Islamic State governed by the laws of Sharia. 

As he explains his vision of the changing future, Erdogan reveals that for him democracy can never be a goal, rather, it can only be considered a useful tool, with which to re-shape a society from one that secular-democratic, to one that is Islamic.

Since then, his political party through various interpretations of "democracy", arrested more than 16,000 thousand secular academics, journalists, scientists, and military officers. More recently his administration proposed certain changes to the Turkish Constitution where words like "democracy" and "secular" be removed. This hair-raising video serves as a perspective on understanding the wave of changes occurring in during his administration.

Deputy chairman of Republican People’s Party (CHP) files criminal complaint against PM Erdoğan.

Deputy chairman of Republican People’s Party (CHP) files criminal complaint against PM Erdoğan.(TZ).

Muharrem İnce, a deputy chairman of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has filed a criminal complaint against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for failing to prove the existence of -- or do what is necessary against -- what the prime minister calls “a gang within the state.”

In his complaint, İnce called on Erdoğan to submit evidence to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office to prove his claims of a shady parallel state that is allegedly working to disrupt the democratic progress of the country by conspiring against the government.

Otherwise, the prime minister should be brought to trial, either over his attempts to influence judicial officials and the judicial processes or for protecting criminals.

“If he avoids these duties, it will be certain that he committed the crime of ‘influencing a person performing official duties’ as defined in the Turkish Criminal Code’s [TCK] Article 277 or ‘slander’ as defined in TCK Article 267,” he said. “Based on these considerations, I kindly request the court to prepare a summary of proceedings about the defendant and send it to the Turkish Parliament,” he added.

Extralegal practices are everywhere, he continued, adding that governmental intervention will likely end the judicial independence eventually.

In his petition, İnce said that “it is quite obvious that a system in which the principle of the separation of powers is almost completely ignored and all power is being accumulated in the hands of the executive is not a state where rule of law prevails.”

One of the main tasks of a prime minister is to take measures to prevent crimes and launch investigations into those who are involved in such actions, the petition said.

At a later press conference İnce held on Wednesday at Parliament in Ankara he said that the government’s main goal is to block an investigation into bribery and corruption that went public with a series of raids on Dec. 17, 2013 from reaching “Number One.”

“They have removed or replaced over 2,000 police officers, and what is this endeavor all about?” he said. The answer, he continued, was that officials were trying to protect the prime minister. Erdoğan now wants “to create a gang within the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK),” he added. “If there is really a gang, Erdoğan is its chief,” İnce added.Hmmm……Erdogan: “Democracy is like a train. We shall get out when we arrive at the station we want.”

Turkish PM Erdogan "“Nobody from outside or inside can stir up troubles in my country, nobody can set up ugly traps,”

Turkish PM Erdogan "“Nobody from outside or inside can stir up troubles in my country, nobody can set up ugly traps,” (HD).

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan avoided commenting on the detention of three ministers’ sons, several public servants and a number of well-known businessmen over corruption allegations, saying the end of the legal process should be concluded first.

“It would not be right for me to speak before the legal process is finalized,” he said, while answering reporters’ questions after a mass opening ceremony in the Central Anatolian province of Konya.

In a speech he delivered at the ceremony earlier in the day, the prime minister had defied “some dark circles” that he claimed to be “threatening the nation.”

“Turkey is not a country that can have operations or surgeries performed on it. The AK Party [the Justice and Development Party] leadership will not permit that,” Erdoğan said, possibly referring to the morning’s operation.

The prime minister was not informed about the operations and learned about it only when the detainments started, daily Hürriyet reported, quoting an unnamed source from Ankara.

“Some people have guns and weapons, tricks and traps, but we have our God and that is enough for us. The nation is enough for us,” Erdoğan said in his speech.

“They can stoop to whatever ugly methods they would like or engage with dirty alliances, but we will not bow to any threats, I will repeat this one more time here,” the prime minister said, reasserting his confidence in the “nation’s will.”

He went on to slam “some people backed by dark circles, gangs, media or capital owners,” saying they “will not manage to draw the direction of Turkey.”

“The seal is in the hands of the nation,” Erdoğan said, also challenging groups to “attend the elections” if they intend to defeat the government.

“Whoever has a score to settle and feels confident, there is a [local] election on March 30. They shall enter elections and encounter the nation there. Neither the nation, nor we, will give permission to those who seek to settle their scores outside the ballot box. Turkey is not a banana republic,” he said.

“Nobody from outside or inside can stir up troubles in my country, nobody can set up ugly traps,” Erdoğan added.Hmmm....'My country' Turkey is his personal property now?

"It's a Zionist plot" - Iran: 'Israel, Saudis plotting new computer worm to sabotage our nuclear program.'

"It's a Zionist plot" - Iran: 'Israel, Saudis plotting new computer worm to sabotage our nuclear program.'(Haaretz).

Israel and Saudi Arabia are reportedly collaborating to create a new destructive computer worm to “spy on and destroy the software structure” of Iran’s nuclear program, the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars said over the weekend.

Fars, the outlet of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, quoted “an informed source” close to the Saudi secret service as saying that Saudi spy chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan and Mossad head Tamir Pardo each sent a representative to Vienna on November 24 with the purpose of increasing the “‘two sides’ cooperation in intelligence and sabotage operations against Iran’s nuclear program.”

“One of the proposals raised in the meeting was the production of a malware worse than the Stuxnet to spy on and destroy the software structure of Iran’s nuclear program,” the source was quoted by Fars, referring to a computer virus unleashed in 2010 targeting Iran’s uranium enrichment facility at Natanz. American whistleblower Edward Snowden told Der Spiegel this year that the U.S. and Israel cooperated to produce the virus.

Arab media reported last week that Prince Bandar took part in a meeting in Tel Aviv with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Francois Hollande to discuss U.S. relations with Iran.Read the full 'story' here.

Turkey sees Israel behind campaign against pro Iran spy chief Hakan Fidan.

Turkey sees Israel behind campaign against pro Iran spy chief Hakan Fidan.(HD).

“We see this media campaign as an attack and there might be an Israeli effort behind it,” a Turkish intelligence source said on the phone yesterday. “Especially after the Washington Post story on Oct. 17 and the follow-ups with Jerusalem bylines.”

This is a bold claim and the source was referring to a story by seasoned journalist David Ignatius who claimed that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) had given Iranian intelligence the names of 10 Iranians who had been in contact with Israel’s intelligence service, MOSSAD, upon the orders of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan.

The story was based on “knowledgeable sources,” without giving any details about the leak while noting that Israel had seen Hakan Fidan, the head of MİT, as someone who had “friendly links with Tehran.”

There is a background to all of it. Ignatius was the moderator at the World Economic Forum panel in Davos on Jan. 29, 2009, when Erdoğan had his “One minute” storm against him for failing to give a chance to reply to Israeli President Shimon Peres who was also a panelist. And Israelis started to accuse Fidan almost at the same time as he was the Turkish sherpa during the U.N.-sponsored efforts on Iran’s nuclear program, before becoming MİT’s head.

Ankara thinks the WP story is part of a campaign that started with a Wall Street Journal story printed on Oct. 9 saying Fidan was acting “independently” on Syria operations, jeopardizing Western interests there.

The story also noted that the discomfort of the U.S. administration was increased during a May 16 lunch at the White House put on by U.S. President Barack Obama for Erdoğan in the presence of Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Obama’s national security adviser, Tom Danilon. The WSJ story said Fidan was responsible for Turkey’s soft stance regarding al-Qaeda-affiliated opposition groups in the Syrian civil war.

Both of the stories were refuted by Davutoğlu on Oct. 17. “The claims attributed to Hakan Fidan are both untrue and an example of very bad, black propaganda. Fidan is doing his job,” he said.

But the feelings in the Turkish government regarding the “campaign” are stronger than those on-the-record words of Davutoğlu. One government official pointed to the timing of the media reports “targeting” Fidan. The official said the campaign coincided with approaching Syria talks in Geneva, which are expected to take place in late November, and a dramatic change in Iran’s relations with the West under its new president, Hassan Rouhani.

When asked about the WP story on the claim of “revealing the Israeli spy ring in Turkey to the Iranians,” U.S. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki did not make any comment but said the U.S. had been working with the Turks as an ally on a range of issues and that the report had not changed relations with Turkey.

Sources in Ankara believe that besides trying to defame Turkey in U.S. eyes as a country tolerating terrorists like Iran – and because of its “independent tack” on Syria, amid an effort to try and corner it in a possible move in the U.S. Congress – Israel might have had another motivation. 
That might be, according to those sources who asked not to be named, an attempt to avoid paying compensation for the nine Turks killed by Israeli commandoes on May 31, 2010, on board the Mavi Marmara on its way to carry humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

After the official apology from Netanyahu (which was brokered by Obama) on March 24, talks started for compensation to the families of the victims, albeit with no result, as Israel does not want to make the payments in the form of “compensation,” according to Israeli diplomatic sources talking to HDN. (MFS : Lie - Turkey wants more money)

Also, Erdoğan’s close relations with Hamas are another source of disturbance between the two. By coincidence, Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas, was received by Erdoğan in his office in Ankara on Oct. 9, the same day that the WSJ story published.

It is unclear whether an Israeli “plot” is behind the obvious campaign against Turkey’s intelligence chief and whether it is aimed at Erdoğan’s foreign policy choices, especially regarding the greater Middle East. 

Turkey is criticized at home and abroad for being distanced from the European Union and getting too involved with the uncertainties of the Middle East. Both the recent EU Progress Report, which calls for Turkey to foster higher standards of democracy to keep up with its European venture, and the Geneva Conference on Syria might be chances to fine-tune Turkish foreign policy.Hmmmm.....I KNEW IT'S A ZIONIST PLOT. :) Read the full 'story' here.

Related: Intelligence chief accused by US newspapers for doing duty: Turkish FM

Iranian Supreme Leader’s Office Blames US and Israel for Chemical Weapons Attack.

Iranian Supreme Leader’s Office Blames US and Israel for Chemical Weapons Attack.HT: EA Worldview.

Tehran Accuses Israel of Killing IRGC General in Lebanon.

Tehran Accuses Israel of Killing IRGC General in Lebanon.(INN).Iranian news media on Thursday were full of reports that Israeli forces have killed a senior Iranian official. According to the report, “Zionists” assassinated Commander Haj Hassan Shateri, a member of the Revolutionary Guards who was in charge of Iranian construction efforts in Lebanon.
Shateri reportedly oversaw reconstruction in south Lebanon after the 2006 Israel-Hizbullah war. He had returned to Iran, but was on a visit to Lebanon this week when he was allegedly killed.
According to a report on Al Jazeera, Shateri landed in Damascus this week and traveled towards Beirut. At one point, while he was still in Syrian territory, Shateri's vehicle was ambushed, and he was killed. Iran insisted that the killers were Mossad agents, either themselves Israelis or Syrian rebels “who are working on behalf of the Zionists.”
Shateri is to be buried Thursday in Tehran, Iranian reports said.Earlier, AP quoted Iranian website mashreghnews, that IRGC General Ghasem Soleimani, the head of IRGC's Quds Force, visited Shateri's family to express condolences.Hmmmmm....It's a Zionist plot i tell you, the Juice did it.Read the full story here.

Salafi Leader Sheikh Gamal Saber Blames US, Zionists for Recent Unrests in Egypt .

Salafi Leader Sheikh Gamal Saber Blames US, Zionists for Recent Unrests in Egypt.(Fars).A senior Salafi leader took the US and the Zionist regime responsible for the recent unrests in Egypt, in which dozens of people have been killed, saying that they intend to repeat Syrian and Libyan events in Egypt.
"Blocking the roads and destroying state assets (facilities) is a crime confronted by the law and such acts are carried out to implement the Zionist-US plot and they want Egypt to turn into another Syria or Libya," Sheikh Gamal Saber, the founder of a Salafi party called Ansar affiliated to the Sheikh Hazem Abu Ismail front, told FNA on Monday.
He expressed regret over the recent events in Egypt which caused the death of tens of people and destruction of a large number of governmental assets, and said the Egyptian revolution was peaceful from the beginning but "the current events are unacceptable".
Relatives and angry young men rampaged through the Egyptian city of Port Said on Saturday in assaults that killed at least 38 people following death sentences for local fans involved in the country's worst bout of soccer violence.
Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi said late Sunday that he won't stand by in the wake of recent violence, declaring a limited state of emergency and suggesting more such moves could be in the offing.
"I will act, and now I am acting," Mursi said in a nationally televised speech.
Egypt imposed a 30-day curfew in Port Said, Ismailia and Suez. Under Mursi's order, people in those governorates cannot go out between 9 pm to 6 am. The three Northeastern Egyptian cities, all of them along the Suez Canal, have been sites of deadly violence in recent days.
It began Friday and so far 38 people died and more than 630 were injured in Port Said, where a riot broke out. Hmmm....I knew it, it's a 'Zionist plot'.Read the full story here.

A 'Zionist Plot' - Palestinian Minister warns of Israeli threats to bomb Dome of the Rock.

A 'Zionist Plot' - Palestinian Minister warns of Israeli threats to bomb Dome of the Rock.(MEM).The Palestinian Minister of Religious Endowments in Gaza has warned of Israeli threats to Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Ismail Radwan said that this is happening through a deliberate Judaisation policy by the occupation authorities. He stressed that his ministry is taking very seriously the latest threat by the Jewish Home Party to bomb the Dome of the Rock in order to build a temple on its ruins. 
Speaking at the Third Conference of the Scholars of Palestine and Egypt, held in Gaza, Radwan said that this threat requires the Arab and Islamic nations to stand against Israel's threats and actual violations of the sanctity of the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa, which occur on a daily basis. This includes, he pointed out, an attempt to impose a timetable for Jewish prayers in the mosque, which is the third holiest site in Islam. Israel has already succeeded in doing this at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron.Hmmm.....That didn't take long.Read the full story here.

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Video - Egyptian Media Mogul Goes on a Rant about Syria: All Free Syrians Should Back Assad.

Egyptian media mogul, Tawfik Okasha, owner of the anti-Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian channel al-Fara’een, went on a loud rant about the Syrian crisis, blaming the Mainstream Media of being complicit with the Muslim Brotherhood in feeding the Egyptian people lies about the Syrian crisis.
He calls for all free Syrians to back President Bashar al-Assad as the issue is not about him but goes beyond to include the destruction of Syria and its transformation into three weaker states incapable of confronting Israel.

Egyptian Media claims existence of an US-Israeli Plan to Build Separation Wall in Sinai.

Egyptian Media claims existence of an US-Israeli Plan to Build Separation Wall in Sinai.(Fars).The Egyptian daily, al-Watan, quoted an informed source as saying that a group of American experts have leveled off the bordering areas in Rafah city in the North to the city of Taba in the South and parallel to the borders of the occupied Palestinian lands, drew the needed sketches for constructing a 200-km-long wall of separation and worked out a plan to evacuate the people from the region.
According to the source, the plan has been devised to guarantee Israel's security and separating a part of the border to control and monitor the area, prevent missile attacks against Israel and deploy modern systems in the region to confront the dangers posing Israel.
The plan which will be implemented after convincing the Egyptian officials and it requires forced displacement of residents in the region
Earlier reports also said that Israel is exercising a new plot to completely Judaize the Sinai desert and separate it from Egypt.
Newly obtained documents show that the purchase of Sinai lands by Israeli Arabs who had a Palestinian nationality in 1948 is considerably on the rise replacing others who bear a non-Israeli citizenship, the Al-Fajr news website reported in November.
The selling of Sinai lands to the Israeli citizens takes place at a time when Egyptian citizens themselves are prevented from buying them on different false pretexts posed by the Egyptian government, the report quoted Egyptian pundits as saying.
The same sources said that Israel is pursuing two objectives by pushing its Arab citizens to the Sinai desert; firstly, to separate the desert from Egypt in order to obviate its security concerns caused after Egyptian revolution on January 25, and secondly, to get rid of its Arab population who have settled in Israel since 1948.
The Israeli military occupied Sinai during its Six-Day war with Arab states in June 1967.
By 1982, all of the Sinai was returned to Egypt. The central government divided the Sinai desert into two governorates, North Sinai with al-Arish as its capital and the South Sinai with At-Tur as its capital.
Israeli has long been pursuing a Judaization plot to change the identity of the region. Ever since the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel has been increasingly exercising its Judaization scenario all across the occupied lands in Palestine and the Golan Heights (in Syria). Hmmmm.....Another'Zionist plot' i guess?Read the full story here.

Live transcript - 'I don't insist on keeping Article 6 of draft constitution': Morsi.

Silence the Copts

Live transcript - 'I don't insist on keeping Article 6 of draft constitution': Morsi.(AO).

“I feel a responsibility for every Egyptian, whether they oppose or support me. The nation is united. All citizens enjoy the right to security.”
“There is no difference between citizens in terms of their right to safety.”
“These painful events happened due to political differences. The only solution is dialogue.”
“The ex-regime used thugs and rigged elections … such methods will never be used in Egypt ever again.”
"Violence is not the solution. Wisdom, rationality, peace must be used to solve the current situation."
“Whoever has come to defend legitimacy and paid with his life, I say it with honesty: while we respect peaceful expression, I will never allow anyone to kill and vandalize, I will not allow plans to murder and vandalize and terrorize citizens.”
“Investigations and confessions have shown that some of those arrested have connections to political forces. Other armed assailants were paid.”
“Yesterday was worse than Tuesday. Peaceful protesters were attacked by armed infiltrators.”
“Protesters were violent on Tuesday. Some of them attacked the presidential cars; a driver was badly injured and is still in the hospital as a result. This is not an acceptable way of protesting.”
“Assailants used shotguns and teargas while attacking protesters … calls for more violence continued until this morning.”
“The prosecution will announce the results of its investigations, for those who committed the attacks, those who incited them and those who paid the perpetrators.”
“I differentiate between all stripes of political opposition and those who spend their corrupt money to destroy the nation.”
“The 22 November constitutional declaration was met with opposition and this is normal, but those who attacked, incited and paid for attacks - this is something else altogether.”
“The issuing of the constitutional deceleration stirred up opposition, which was acceptable. But those who brought arms and hired thugs to wreak havoc must be punished.”
“The declaration wasn’t meant to prevent the judiciary from doing its work, or take away citizens’ rights.”
“The judiciary has protected rights and freedoms so long as it stayed away from politics. I’m sure it will carry on doing its duty.”
“I am not insisting on keeping Article 6 of the declaration if dialogue with political partners leads to that. What is included in the article is already mandated, as some have pointed out.”
“I will meet with legal experts on Saturday at 12:30 [local time] at the presidential headquarters to come up with a solution that shall save the nation; Some decisions will be discussed, such as maintaining the Shura Council.”
“We shall also discuss the roadmap after the referendum, whether the people reject or approve it.”

Hmmmm.......Roughly translated 'It's a Zionist plot and i'll go on doing things my way.'

Iranian IT Analyst Enumerates Video Games Insulting Islam.

Bin Laden's Death Recreated in Video Game : Kuma Games.

Iranian IT Analyst Enumerates Video Games Insulting Islam.(MET).An Iranian IT analyst criticized Western countries and American firms for developing anti-Islam video games. He also urged the local government to take action against these video games produced and distributed by ‘Jewish’ companies. “Unfortunately we have seen a series of video games developed by U.S. based companies which are clearly insulting Islam and show negative face of this divine religion. The producers of these games distribute them at no cost to their clients.” said Mehdi Haghverdi, Iranian IT analyst. “Prophet Wars video game is among computer games developed by United States which is completely free for clients. The player must act the roles of Noah (AS), Hazrat Musa (AS) and Hazrat Maryam (pbuh) in this game. According to official announcements, the creators of this video game are affiliated with the government of the United States.” Mehdi Haghverdi continued.
“The enemies of Islam also design the tables and rooms of terrorists based on Islamic culture and they usually grave the name of Prophet Muhammad on different elements. In ‘Hitman’ game, the characters have Islamic names such as Muhammad, Ahmad, Ali and etc. Terrorists in Hitman are headquartered in Grand Mosque of Isfahan.” Haghverdi reiterated. “The same process is happening in ‘Covert Stick’ video game. When player enters into Libya to fight with insurgents you can hear the voice of Azan and Quran from mosques in the game. Americans are trying to show a fake image of Islamic symbols. The gates and doors in ‘Resident Evil’ are designed like the gates of the prophet Muhammad shrine in Madinah.” Mehdi Haghverdi also urged the Muslims to combat with these actions taken by Western countries.Hmmm...... Another one in the 'Zionist plot' series.Read the full story here.