Press Release
O Erdogan! How Do You See Someone as Friend Whom Allah and His Messenger See Him as Enemy?!
(Translated)

Yesterday, the spiritual leader of the Catholic Christians, Pope Francis and his entourage were on official visit to Turkey. Bilateral meetings took place at the delegations level between the Pope and the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President of Religious Affairs Mohammed Gurmez, where at the end President Gurmez and Pope Francis issued a joint press statement. The Pope was greeted with an official ceremony of the highest level in the Muslim country of Turkey, as in previous visits of the popes before him. Again, the war on terror and the idea of interfaith dialogue were at the forefront of the issues addressed in the press release.

In a press meeting, which was carried out jointly by the President of the Republic with the Pope Francis, Erdogan said: "We held a very productive meeting. There is hardly any issue we have different views on. Our view on terror, and fight against terror is the same. Our view on violence and on the sovereignty of money is the same. I really consider the visit of our honourable guest to Turkey as very important. I believe it is a very important step in contributing to increasing the hopes of peace in our region and across the world. This scene that comes into existence in Ankara today is undoubtedly a scene of hope for the world." However a few days ago, in his speech addressing the 30th meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), he said the following: "Those who come from outside [the Muslim world] only like the oil, gold, diamonds, cheap workforce, conflicts and disputes of the lands of Islam. Believe me, they do not like us, they love seeing our children die. How much longer will we stand that fact?"

So O Erdogan! Does not what you have said yesterday have any value today? A few days ago you said the Kaffir countries come to the Islamic countries for its riches, oil and its gold, and they do not love us, but they love seeing our children die, and today you receive the Pope, the spiritual leader of the Kaffir West upright at your door and greeted him like how you greeted the presidents of the United States and other Western countries with praise. Have you forgotten that the Pope who drank from the blood of Muslims was the commander of the Western savages during the days of the Crusades? How you can be in agreement in every opinion, with the spiritual leader of the Crusader coalition, which America had formed to kill the sons of Muslims in Syria and Iraq? How can you not find anything that you differ with him in it? Although you are a Muslim, and he is a Kaffir!

O Erdogan! How do you see someone a friend, whom Allah and His Messenger see him as an enemy?! And how could you deliberately deceive Muslims as you try to show that the Pope is visiting Turkey as a messenger of peace and tolerance, and that he respects the Deen of Islam? When Salahuddin freed Jerusalem from the Crusaders' abomination, the Pope in that era died from defeat. So how can you expect from behind the Pope who spill the blood of Muslims by abstracting the Crusades in Jerusalem, yes how can you expect him to call for a solution for Al-Aqsa Mosque? How do you still boast to be the descendant of the great hero Salahuddin?

O Muslims! Until when we will remain insensitive in front of this humiliation in which we live? And for how much longer you will remain silent before the hypocrisy of the rulers who are lying on what they said yesterday, and construct friendly relations today with whom they yesterday described an enemy? What more incidents you should witness for you realize the betrayal of these rulers in the issuance of the resolution by the Parliament for the occupation of Iraq by the crusaders American Gangster for a handful of money?!

Enough O Muslims! Wake up and open your eyes, and look at this scene of humiliation of your rulers, does this scene, which angers Allah, not anger you?

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Turkey