“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Zechariah 4: 6)
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AFP—Turkey’s Erdogan in Saudi on Gulf tour:
Riyadh (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived for talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday to further strengthen ties as part of a Gulf tour.
The two Sunni powers have become increasingly close over the past year, sharing in particular a backing for the opposition in Syria’s war.
Before beginning his Gulf trip in Bahrain on Sunday, Erdogan said Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies had entered the centre of Al-Bab, the Islamic State group’s last stronghold in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo.
In Bahrain, Saudi Arabia’s island neighbour and close ally, Erdogan met King Hamad and other officials.
Since Saudi King Salman ascended the throne in 2015, Riyadh and Ankara have repaired ties strained over the 2013 ousting of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi, a Turkish ally.
Saudi Arabia has been one of the main supporters of Egypt’s current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who as army chief overthrew Morsi.
In April last year Salman visited Erdogan, who awarded him a rare honour, the Order of State.
Turkey then began hosting Saudi warplanes at its Incirlik air base as part of the US-led coalition against IS jihadists, who are among an array of factions fighting in Syria.
Ankara has taken on an increasingly important role with Moscow and Iran as a powerbroker in the Syria conflict.
Analysts say the capture late last year by Syria’s army of the country’s second city Aleppo, backed by Russian air strikes, was a setback for Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The Gulf states have supported rebels whose struggle to oust President Bashar al-Assad seems increasingly fruitless.
In January Turkey, along with Assad allies Russia and Iran, sponsored talks in Kazakhstan between Syrian rebels and government officials.
There was no breakthrough, but Kazakhstan has proposed another round in Astana this Wednesday and Thursday, before United Nations-sponsored peace talks resume in Geneva on February 23.
On Monday in Manama, Erdogan called for a “safe zone” in northern Syria where people displaced by the war could go.
The positions of Saudi Arabia and Turkey are “absolutely identical” on Syria, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said last week in Ankara.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
My advice, for what it’s worth: Be careful when dealing with President Erdoğan. He is not a man of honor. Stated simply, he can’t be trusted.
President Trump needs to be especially careful.
See “Erdoğan v free speech: how does it feel to live in Turkey right now?”:
“Turkey, once held up as an exemplar of secular democracy in the Muslim world, is now the world’s biggest prison for journalists. Since he came to power in 2014, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slowly tightened his grip on freedom of expression, choking his critics. Editors of national newspapers now face life sentences for working “against the state”. People have been arrested for Facebook posts criticising the government and last week over 4,400 public servants were sacked in an act branded by critics as a witchhunt targeting the political opposition.”
Things ain’t what they used to be in Turkey.
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“If My people who are called by My Name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7: 14)
Change that Yahweh calls “good” begins in the hearts of believers—people who are recognizable because they are different.
We are different because we belong to Him and are called by His Name. We are Yahweh’s people, His followers.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
