{"id":3214,"date":"2014-12-28T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T11:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2015-01-03T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T12:13:44","slug":"turkey-source-of-power-for-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkey-source-of-power-for-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey \u2018source of power\u2019 for Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Turky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3215\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Turky.jpg\" alt=\"Turky\" width=\"406\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Turky.jpg 406w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Turky-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a>Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal on Saturday praised Turkey as a \u201csource of power\u201d for all Muslims in gratitude to Turkey\u2019s leaders for supporting the Palestinian cause.<br \/>\n\u201cA democratic, stable and developed Turkey is a source of power for all Muslims,\u201d Mashaal said in an address to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) annual congress in the conservative central Anatolian city of Konya.<br \/>\nMashaal said a \u201cstrong Turkey means a strong Jerusalem, a strong Palestine,\u201d voicing hopes to \u201cliberate Palestine and Jerusalem,\u201d according to the state-run Anatolia news agency.<br \/>\nHis brief address was interrupted repeatedly by cheering crowds in the hall waving Turkish and Palestinian flags and chanting: \u201cAllahu Akbar (God is greatest)\u201d and \u201cDown with Israel!\u201d<br \/>\nThe Hamas chief often shows up at the ruling party\u2019s events. He also attended the AKP\u2019s congress in 2012 when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was serving as prime minister.<br \/>\nCurrent Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, in his speech said Turkey\u2019s red flag featuring a crescent with a star was a \u201csymbol of the innocent in the world.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cGod is witness &#8230; we will make this red flag a symbol of the innocent. This red flag will fly side by side with the flags of Palestine, free Syria and all other innocents\u2019 flags anywhere in the world,\u201d he told the congress.<br \/>\nA staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, Erdogan has often blasted the Jewish state over its military assaults on the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Hamas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkey-source-of-power-for-muslims\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal on Saturday praised Turkey as a \u201csource of power\u201d for all Muslims in gratitude to Turkey\u2019s leaders for supporting the Palestinian cause. \u201cA democratic, stable and developed Turkey is a source of power for all Muslims,\u201d Mashaal said in an address to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) annual congress &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,25,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}