![\"\"](\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Turkeys-President-Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan-300x169.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Emily Jones<\/a> – October 2, 2020<\/p>\n JERUSALEM, Israel \u2013 Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested that Jerusalem belongs to his country during an address to Turkish lawmakers in Ankara on Thursday,\u00a0The Times of Israel<\/em>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n \u201cIn this city that we had to leave in tears during the First World War, it is still possible to come across traces of the Ottoman resistance. So, Jerusalem is our city, a city from us,\u201d he said. \u201cOur first qibla [Islamic direction of prayer] al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem are the symbolic mosques of our faith. In addition, this city is home to the holy places of Christianity and Judaism.\u201d<\/p>\n The Ottoman Empire ruled Jerusalem from 1516-1917 until Great Britain took over after World War I. Erdogan is increasingly pushing the constitutionally secular country towards conservative Islam and considers Jerusalem an extension of Turkey.<\/p>\n Shortly after converting Istanbul\u2019s Hagia Sophia church into a mosque in July, Erdogan set his sights on the holy city.<\/p>\n He said in a Facebook post that the \u201crevival of the Hagia Sophia is a sign towards the return of freedom to the al-Aqsa mosque\u201d in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www1.cbn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emily Jones – October 2, 2020 JERUSALEM, Israel \u2013 Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested that Jerusalem belongs to his country during an address to Turkish lawmakers in Ankara on Thursday,\u00a0The Times of Israel\u00a0reported. \u201cIn this city that we had to leave in tears during the First World War, it is still possible to come … Continue reading Erdogan Tells Turkish Leaders: \u2018Jerusalem is Our City’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[5023,175,4304,15118,55,463,961,14797,1773,221],"class_list":["post-18980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning","tag-al-aqsa","tag-christianity","tag-dome-of-the-rock","tag-hagia-sophia","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-judaism","tag-ottoman-empire","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4W8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18982,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980\/revisions\/18982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}