Erdogan: Jerusalem is our city

The parliamentary session, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, opened with a long speech referring to Jerusalem as our “city”, a definition that was quickly reported by Israeli media.

Erdoğan referred to the reign of the Ottoman Empire over Jerusalem, which lasted four centuries, from 1517 to 1917, to justify his claim. In this city, which we had to leave in tears during World War I, you can still find traces of Ottoman resistance.

So Jerusalem is our city, a city from us”, the head of the Turkish state said. Erdogan mentioned that the walls of Jerusalem still standing today, as well as the Old Town Rock Cup, were rebuilt and restored by the Great Suleiman, who ruled in the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to his death in 1566. Jerusalem's” question is not a common geopolitical problem for us,” said Erdoğan.

The first “, the current image of the Old Town, which is the heart of Jerusalem, was built by the Great Suleiman, with his walls, the marketplace, and many buildings. Our ancestors showed respect for centuries by keeping this city so valued”, Erdogan said, adding that Sulejman was known for protecting the Jewish subjects of his empire through unprecedented reforms for the time, and is believed to have had a Hebrew mother.

After that, the Turkish president turned to the Palestinian issue, claiming that the “considers honour in the name of the country and our nation expressing the rights of the oppressed Palestinian people, with whom, as he said, we have lived for centuries.