heads of state: middle east.docx - Rejep tiap...

● Rejep tiap urdiwan--president of turkey
● Turkey itself spans regions and continents..is it mostly euro or middle east?
○ Most put it in the middle east but inc people are putting it in europe bc
■ it is the bridge between the two regions and
■ turkey pays a roll in both and
■ the president plays a role in immigration in europe and possibly turkey
becoming a european member but also
■ In a lot of middle eastern affairs--a conflict happening in syria
● Urdiwan turkeys is warming ties with russia--they are starting it pivot towards the east a
bit more than they have. And with israel.
○ In the past he’s been very confrontation w them over palestine issue and was a
defender of their rights.
○ He’s quite adamant about standing up to president of syria calling for him to be
overthrown
○ Turkey is working w US september 2016 in active military operations inside of
syria against isis
● Middle east and africa: people urdiwan likes
○ Outlier (bc of all cultural religious and confrontational issues) : israel
■ The leader is prime minister benjamin netanyahu
■ He is a right wing conservative-- a hawkish politician. He does not mind
confrontation and relies on military and being more active to solve
problems
■ Huge US ally as well. US is a big supporter of them but israel has not
been popular in its own neighborhood
● Fights a lot of wars with its neighbors
■ The leaders of these two states actually didn't like each other at the time
of the video but the country are historic allies and will weather through
conflicts
■ Why dont like each other?
● bc obama admin has been bringing up details about israel
recognizing palestine as its own state
● Benjamin has worked against that so
● Also the obama admin has signed a nuclear agreement deal with
iran--warming relations w them who was a historic enemy of us
and current enemy of israel
● In september 2016 the US today released a press statement saying they will pledge 38