A Kurdish-Israeli alliance vis-à-vis the Arab-Turkish alliance?

The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a speech a month ago, in the city of Konya, central Anatolia. Directing his comments to the Israeli government, he said that the Sixth Commandment in the Torah regarding murder says, ‘Thou shalt not kill’, and he repeated these words in Turkish, English and Hebrew. The following day, the leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party gave a response in relation to internal affairs, saying that the Eighth commandment of the Torah states, “Do not lie”.  

 

These commandments are first and foremost of relevance to everyone connected to the Turkish government, the opposition, and in the context of the recent history of contemporary Turkey. Turkish history is littered with massacres and the version that the Turkish Government relies on is false (like other countries in the region), because it fails to disclose important information, in particular in relation to Kurds and Armenians. Read more