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Biden apologizes to Erdogan for saying he acknowledged Turkey’s mistake in allowing jihadis to cross into Syria

Oct 5, 2014 6:45 am By Robert Spencer

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An update on this story. “Biden apologizes to Turkey president in phone call,” by Suzan Fraser, Associated Press, October 4, 2014:

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden apologized Saturday to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was angry over comments in which Biden said Erdogan had admitted that Turkey had made mistakes by allowing foreign fighters to cross into Syria.

Erdogan denied ever saying that and told reporters in Istanbul before Biden’s apology that he “will be history for me if he has indeed used such expressions.”

Biden spoke with Erdogan by phone on Saturday, the White House said.

“The vice president apologized for any implication that Turkey or other allies and partners in the region had intentionally supplied or facilitated the growth of ISIL or other violent extremists in Syria,” the White House said, referring to an acronym for the Islamic State group.

The spat comes as Turkey, a NATO ally, is expected to define the role it will play in the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic state militants who have captured a swath of Iraq and Syria, in some cases right up to the Turkish border.

Responding to questions following his speech at the Harvard Kennedy School on Thursday, Biden described Erdogan as “an old friend.” Biden added: “He (Erdogan) said: ‘You were right. We let too many people through.’ Now they’re trying to seal their border.”

Erdogan said: “I have never said to him that we had made a mistake, never. If he did say this at Harvard then he has to apologize to us.”

“Foreign fighters have never entered Syria from our country. They may come to our country as tourists and cross into Syria, but no one can say that they cross in with their arms,” Erdogan said….

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  1. Mustapha exmuslim says

    Oct 5, 2014 at 7:22 am

    That guy is a fanatic nuthead, why apologize a fanatic?

    • Bamaguje says

      Oct 5, 2014 at 8:18 pm

      I’m not surprised that a groveling dhimmi like Biden is easily cowed by a Muslim loudmouth like Erdogan.

    • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

      Oct 6, 2014 at 9:53 am

      Welcome Mustaffa to the 21st Century, great to read your comment.

  2. Steffen Larsen says

    Oct 5, 2014 at 7:47 am

    When Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, the then Secretary-General of the Organisation of islamic Cooperation, was asked by Danish Television whether the OIC did not carry part of the blame for the Muhammad cartoon troubles – extreme offendedness, general mayhem and deaths – and he threatende to walk out unless he received an immediate apology, then I knew he really was saying “guilty as charged, m’lud” by putting some blame elsewhere..

    • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

      Oct 6, 2014 at 9:55 am

      Remember this well, a great cartoon nevertheless!

  3. Sam says

    Oct 5, 2014 at 8:07 am

    Clueless dhimmi….

  4. RichardTheLionheart says

    Oct 5, 2014 at 9:45 am

    I must say, The notion that this “Radical/Militant/extremist/fundamentalist islam” (any other PC compliant terms?) is mostly to blame on the west.

    For a different reason however than the MSM espouses… We should have finished the job after WW2 instead of allowing this evil to reappear once again.

    Turkey is once again on the rise and yet our leaders are curtailing to their every demand, we did not create the idealogy which they follow and have for thousands of years, nor do we take blame for their historical slaughter of hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and yet so many within the west equate our past as if it is in some form of relevance. We have killed fewer using far more deadly and destructive weapons as opposed to the mass slaughter commited throughout Islams dark past let us not forget it was the Turkish Ottomon Islamic caliphate which was knocking in europes door last before being stopped by the King of Poland at the gates of vienna on 9/11 (not sure on the year in all honesty).

    We must not let the notion of moral equivelance even be in the conversation, or use it to highlight the difference which should be obvious to all with an honest study of history.

    • pumbar says

      Oct 6, 2014 at 1:12 am

      1683, if my decrepit memory serves me correctly.

    • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

      Oct 6, 2014 at 9:52 am

      Couldn’t agree more. The fall of the Ottoman Empire has never been forgotten by Islam and certainly we should have finished them off in WWII. How many of the younger generation are aware of the full impact on the world during WWII?

  5. Salah says

    Oct 5, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    Allowing ISIL recruits to flow in (Turkey, a NATO member)
    Financing ISIL (Qatar, 2 U.S. military bases)

    Both close U.S. allies.
    Where is the U.S. responsibilty in all this mess?

  6. TH says

    Oct 5, 2014 at 1:33 pm

    Such denial by the likes of Edrogan are simply confirmation of the the fact. Of course, Biden just showed that he is a miserable wimp.

  7. GP says

    Oct 5, 2014 at 3:00 pm

    Biden should apologize, because if it is done knowingly, repeatedly, and willingly, it is most certainly not a mistake.

  8. mortimer says

    Oct 5, 2014 at 3:44 pm

    But Biden was telling the truth.

    Erdogan lied. The Turks are waiting for the Kurds to be exterminated before joining in.

  9. bobm says

    Oct 5, 2014 at 4:04 pm

    Turkey is presently standing within spitting distance of a besieged Kurd town and blocking Kurd escape… they could destroy the isis easily but just watch.. there are some dark agendas a work today..

  10. epistemology says

    Oct 5, 2014 at 5:07 pm

    Very strange. People in Europe are full of self-reproach, because radicalised young guys and some women as well are going to Iraq/Syria in order to fight for ISIS. In Britain 500, in Germany 450 and in France even more have joined the jolly jihad tour. Our European politicians give the wrong answers, as usual, they blame the conditions under which Muslims in Europe have to to live. They’re disenfranchised, marginalized the usual blabla. But at least our politicians think about it.

    But Erdogaga is a different type of dude. He’s innocent like all muzzies, a matter of principle. By definition muzzies can never do anything wrong and the new sultan of the new Ottoman empire is superior to everything. It’s disgusting that Biden apologizes without having to, Western surrender, business as usual.

    • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

      Oct 6, 2014 at 9:56 am

      Yep just look at Sweden backing Hamas and Fatah!

  11. Jerry says

    Oct 5, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    The Kurds are being exterminated by ISIL and the Islamist Turks are preventing them from receiving assistance let alone helping them.

    Turkey is fake ally of the West and should be expelled from NATO.

    Vice President Bide is FOS lacky of the Islamist POTUS HBO.

    Both should be impeached and charged with treason.

  12. Lookmann says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 3:15 am

    Now UAE wants ‘clarifications’ from Biden,as per reports.

    Once (you’re) Biden, always foolish.

    • Vostro says

      Oct 6, 2014 at 10:34 am

      Open mouth, insert foot. Way to go Joe!

      • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

        Oct 6, 2014 at 10:37 am

        Good one

  13. fair_dinkum says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 6:53 am

    Turkey has never contributed anything to the world.. id like some one to name one thing.. besides genocide, corruption and now, more genocide.

    albanians.. Kurds.

    and this Biden idiot stumbling around apologising.

    • Falsafa says

      Oct 6, 2014 at 5:37 pm

      “….id like someone to name one thing…”

      For your education:

      http://www.turkishculturalfoundation.org

  14. ApolloSpeaks says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 7:19 am

    IF TURKEY DOESN’T DE-ISLAMIZE

    Then it must be de-NATOized.

    How’s that for an anti-jihad bumper sticker?

    http://www.apollospeaks.com

  15. Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 9:47 am

    No one needs to apologise to Turkey. Turkey is planning to introduce a strict Islamic state on its people! How can Turkey be allowed to enter the EU? Furthermore how can Turkey be trusted as an ally in the fight against ISIS and extreme Islam. Note IS has changed its name from ISIS to ISL. For those who are unaware ISIS was a Pagan fertility goddess. Her vulva is sculpted in silver around the black & red stone in the Kaaba, kissed by Islamic potentates during the Haaj. Mohammed conjoined this ancient pagan worship within Islam hence the waning crescent moon and star of the flags of Islam. ISIS was also worshiped in Egypt and anyone who has been there will have been offered little pictures of ISIS suckling her son Osiris the brightest star in the ‘constellation of Orion’. My last visit to Egypt was December 1988/89. Some of us will have seen the close proximity of Venus in relation to the cycles of the moon generally this appears during the waning crescent phase. Under Pagan myth the death moon, reborn again under the waxing crescent. There are many scholars out there who seem not to have made this connection to the Star and Waning Crescent moon! The fertility goddess is often portrayed with three breasts. Upon the domes of Islamic mosques there are what could be interpreted as three nipples on a domed breast mounted by the dying crescent moon. Too me this is all quite obvious and the 72 Virgins would seem to me to be the Warriors daughters of Wotan the Scandinavian Pagan God (featured in the Wagner’s Ring Cycle). Valhalla was Pagan Scandinavian Paradise. Scandinavia did not turn from Paganism until 500 years after the rest of Europe!

  16. Luciano says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 9:47 am

    At one time, in the 80’s, I thought Biden to be a reasonable, articulate, stand up guy…..although I do not cotton to the Democratic philosophy. However, since he groveled to his last chance at ‘high office’…that is VP….he has become a thorough sycophant to Obama and his ideology. The man is truly an empty suit and fortunately for America he has absolutely no chance of getting elected in 2016.

    One man’s opinion,
    The Cycling Tuscan

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