You're Not Really Going to Trust This Man, Are You?

This man:-



He wants to hold on to Iran's uranium reserves in a:-

...uranium swap proposal that Iran intends to submit to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)...Iran signed the nuclear swap deal on May 17th after three days of mediation involving Turkey and Brazil. Under the deal, Iran will send 1,200kg of low-enriched uranium to Turkey, in exchange for 120kg of more highly-enriched uranium within a year.

This is what he says about Israel:

“No one should test Turkey’s patience. Our hostility is as strong as our friendship. It is a serious harm to lose Turkey’s friendship,” he said.

Calling Israel’s raid on the ships carrying aid to the Gaza Strip a “bloody massacre”, Erdogan said: “The bloody massacre deserves every kind of curse. This massacre is against the international law, the conscience of humanity and peace. Israel must end its blockade of Gaza and be punished for the attack on the aid ships. We will go till the end. Turkey is not a young state, or a tribal state. No one should test Turkey’s patience,” he said.

And more:-

In 2004, Erdogan called Israel a “terrorist state” after we eliminated Sheikh Yassin. In February 2006, he hosted Hamas leader Haled Mashal in Ankara. In January 2009, he staged a temper tantrum at the Davos Conference calling Shimon Peres an expert killer. In October 2009, the Turkish state television channel started airing a fiction series showing Israeli soldiers intentionally murdering Palestinian children. In November 2009, Erdogan declared that he’d rather meet with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (accused of war crimes and genocide by the International Criminal Court) than with Benjamin Netanyahu. In March 2010, Erdogan claimed that the Temple Mount, Hebron and Rachel’s tomb were never Jewish sites. The list goes on.

Catholics should be wary:

A Roman Catholic bishop was stabbed to death in eastern Turkey on Thursday, a day before he had planned to travel to Cyprus for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI...In recent years, several priests have been attacked in Turkey; one was shot to death in 2006 amid widespread Muslim anger over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Of course, Argentina needs to be careful, too:-

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan canceled a trip to Argentina on Sunday [May 30] after Buenos Aires authorities halted the display of a bust of Turkey's founder, a move Turkey blamed on Armenian lobbyists.

The row over the statue, due to be unveiled in a park, comes during a high-profile trip to South America by Erdogan. Turkey's Foreign Ministry said in a statement the two-day visit, which was to have begun Sunday, had been canceled, and it hoped Argentina would take steps to remove the shadow cast on Turkish-Argentine relations.