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Sudan: Stumbling Along
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Sudan recently announced that it will give Turkey a lease on land on Suakin Island in the Red Sea. Suakin is about 60 kilometers south of Port Sudan. The deal will pay Sudan about $650 million. Turkey says it wants to build a dock on the island capable of handling civilian and military ships. It also wants to rebuild part of the old Ottoman city on the island as part of an economic development project. Suakin does have some Ottoman-era archeological sites, which Turkish officials say they want to restore. The implication is the restored "old town" would be a tourist attraction. It would also be a transfer point for Muslim pilgrims going to Mecca. Egypt opposes the lease and so does Saudi Arabia. Egypt and Saudi Arabia contend Turkey is acquiring a naval base.
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more at:
https://strategypage.com/qnd/sudan/arti ... 80123.aspxLook the place up on google maps, it just slightly to the south off and across the Red Sea from Jeddah, the port close to Mecca.
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Israel Orders Deportation of Turkish Nationals Arrested During Jerusalem Protests
Three were arrested on Friday during anti-Trump protests near the Temple Mount, and were released the next day despite a police request to extend their detention
A photograph circulated on social media showed them among a group of fez-wearing men and boys outside Al-Aqsa. One is seen wearing a Turkish flag T-shirt and waving a Palestinian flag, while two hold up pictures of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/isr ... -1.5629622Erdogan´s boys playing defenders of the Umma
I looked up the story after reading this article on the Frankfurter Allgemeine:
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/d ... 23299.htmlwhich says Erdogans AKP party and it´s various associations having been campaigning for Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa mosque onTemple Mount as a worthy pilgrimage destination, with some of those pilgrims stirring up trouble there, many bringing Turkish flags and displaying them ... well a lot.
Also mentioned are AKP rallies where there is much jihadist-sounding rhetoric about the need to defend the Al-Aqsa, and the terror and oppression inflicted by the evil occupiers on the "Palestinians".
It´s three pages in the original German and has decent detail. Wonder how long the Israelis will take this.
Anyway, someone seems to think the Ottoman Empire was a great idea.
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