What do you think about Tayyip Erdogan's storming out of Davos?

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Selena

He did the right thing. There was no reason for killing so many innocent bystanders. Fight the terrorists, yes but not the others. There are other ways to combat terrorism. The east/west issue is overlived. It is time to wake up and work together in solidarity. Forget about differences be it in race or religion. We are living in one world. We all need this world but the world doesn't need us. Respect for everyone, every species and everything.

Tanju

Dear Irmak,

Last night, I watched ...
And I read something what happened in Davos,

In my opinion, This is Effect - Reaction ...

If someone spoke loudly, Everyone can be show their reaction ...

It affected Turkiye's place, Well, I do not think so ...

Cheers

Bummer again

wow..it was so cool..and we can see it was really unfair..what kind of debate was that?? i think he's really brave to do that..the prime minister or israel is lying and acting like palestin was the one who responsible for the dying children..omg, i really hate that man..

Macho Man

Tayyip Erdogan done what a respectable person should have done,his respect in my heart is increased,the relations of turkey with the west will not be affected but the people in muslim world will like turkey much more than before.

sultan.murat

Yes it was. Perez is so used to talking the same crap he does in each and every int. gathering he doesn`t realize that not everyone sitting next to him is ready to take that. The moderator is jewish himself and I know from experience that moderators are there to intervene if there is something that doesn`t fit in the picture of what was planned in advance. He didn`t interfere with Perez the slightest but he tried to bottle down Erdogan in every way he could. The World has seen that.
He just picked on the wrong cowboy. People in Turkey don`t like the killings of Israel and the PM spoke in the name of millions. Turkey cannot militarily stop Israel`s aggression but this was the least a politician could do and he did it. How many Turkish politicians had his guts before?
Turkey`s place on earth is written in different books. It won`t change for a minor incident like this. But it did show the arab World and the rest of the World that Turkish people don`t just sit there and sip their tea while baby's get killed by a so called partner in the region.
American or British leaders may or may not bow down in front of jews but that doesn`t bind Erdogan. If you knew the sums of money held in the sates and England by jewish, you would know the reason why they act the way they act.

veritas

He did the right thing and leaves the world with even more respect for Turkey. If the moderator was going to allow soneone 25 minutes to lie and to indulge in a lame defence of what was clearly a crime against humanity but cuting short the person who speaks out for truth and human lives, you might as well just walk away.

It won't affect Turkey's relations with anyone - we all understand - except Israel.

Zoi ((Î–Ï‰Î®))

Yes, I judge it positively.
I don't see how it could affect Turkey's future, but I don't have the knowledge to support it with certainty.

I can assure you that many other world leaders would like to do the same thing, let alone that Perez provoked Erdogan's 'answer'.
Additionally, it is easy for any Christian to understand why
a (1st)Muslim
and (2d) human being
would feel so annoyed by someone who was dissatisfied, because the first one didn't support him 100% to his decision to suddenly bomb innocent (Muslim, as usual) people.

Let alone the world leaders, MOST of the average citizens of the 'civilized' world, where bombing kids and schools with no reason seems crazy, would like to do what Erdogan did. EVEN ME!

OK, he represents a country, but bear in mind that this country (Turkey) is considered to be (and it is) a Muslim country.
Imagine the negative comments if he did not say anything after what Perez said to him.
Plus...he felt this way and he didn't do it for gaining any kind of 'publicity'.
And...his reaction wasn't THAT exaggerated.

EDIT
I TOTALLY AGREE with what another Greek user wrote to Mick's answer
'it was very much extra ordinary and very much unexpected action by the sleeping Muslim rulers around the world'.

WTF?

We are Muslims and we defend Muslims.

Moonlight Turkish Muslim â˜ª

Turkiye is a Muslim country. We hate Israel and Juice.

PIETRO

AKP is bad party, but we must say bravo to Erdogan's symbolic act.

I think Israelis are shocked, because they thought no important country would have courage to upset USA and Israel.

He didn't give bad name to Turkey, but in fact he showed that Turkey is not a coward country.

Ronaldinho goes to Es-Es

until yesterday, we, Turks had been seen like dummies!! But from now on we are not!!! Now we have completed ''the era of depression and worry''. He was completely right. The only thing that makes me worried is Hamas. Hamas has started to see Erdogan as their leader. People who dislike Erdogan in Turkey now are going to say '' oh Tayyip you represented Turkey as an Islamic country'' Whereas he is not...

BuseTurk

I think he did the right thing. It wasn't very professional of him but he was right. They didn't let him speak as much as Shimon Peres did and he stood up against what he thought was wrong (the Israelis killing on the Gaza strip). Ohh iyi olmus diyorum.

Are you talkin' to me?

He did it for his friends of Hamas.

Ã‡etin

hi.
i think that RTE plays for the tribunes .
the correct way is the National Court's decision in Spain
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_19840.shtml
as for me , Peres and RTE want to give a role to the Turkish Army in middle -east (BOP- Greatest middle east project)
but Turkish patriots don't accept this imperialist role (ergenekon case).

in Davos, Peres and RTE acted their roles very vell therefore i congratulates both of them about this imperials role.
as the first step, Peres and RTE planning to be gained in the Turkish local election for AKP , therfore they acted this scene in Davos.

Keyser

At first i thought it was good that he stood up for himself.Its a summit after all right? And they didnt let him speak his point,so whats the point of him being there?

Perez spoke for ages and in a very intimidating manner,all he did was try and reply.

But i dont think hes fit to be a leader.Obama,Tony Blair ect would never storm out a meeting like that.

What worried me most is he came home to a heros welcome...

Totally Blunt

Tayyip ErdoÄŸan lacks the diplomatic courtesy required of statesmen.

I suggest we send him to Middle East as the King of Palestine, because he isn't fit to represent a secular democratic country.

And kristina is being very hypocritical by not reminding us of the Turks massacred in Eastern Anatolia by Armenians and of the ethnic cleansing that took place in lands that we call Armenia today.

Edit: Just read what Ã‡etin says. I think he reads this comedy better than anyone else.

And as always, when elephants are playing grass is being trodden.

amaannnn

is this RTE same person with invited iran president to istanbul because he respects their diplomatic wants they dont want to visit AnÄ±tkabir in Ankara?

what happemed this diplomatic person?

amada

I'm very disturbed about it. He should have found a more political approach. He should have found a way to finish his speech and making the moderator hush up in a polite way, he should have been sarcastic but polite toward Perez, but he shouldn't have said ' Davos is finished for me'. No, I'm not proud. Once Winston Churchill had said that England did not have friends or enemies , only its benefits. I'm sorry for the Palestinians too, but I can also see Israel's approach. I'd rather have Erdogan think about our benefits first and then him defending others' benefits. I think he is isolating us while trying to defend others.

Smart-Guy

hang him finish hes life

MPan

Someone said:
We are Muslims and we defend Muslims.
And I say: whatâ€™s new.

Someone said: Until yesterday, we, Turks had been seen like dummies!! But from now on we are not!!!

And I say: Now you are seen as hypocrites.

Some one said: AKP is bad party, but we must say bravo to Erdogan's symbolic act.
And I say: Say Bravo when you can finally face the truth about:
Armenians
Kurds
Iraq
Cyprus
Greece (Aegean)

This is the second time he gets bend out of shape with in a short period of time for the ones that speak Turkish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zir4tO9etFA&feature=related

kristinamristina25

I do not support what Israel is doing in Gaza, BUT it is so hypocritical of Turkey to accuse Israel of mass killings when Turkey has so many skeletons in its closet regarding the genocide of the Armenians, the murders and bombings of the Kurds, the occupation of Cyprus....Before Erdogan accuses others he should look back into the Turkish history first.

Bix

RTE is a little hypocrite but I don't agree with the first answerer that this issue can be compared with the Armenian or the Cyprus problem. The Kurdish issue however and the reaction of Turkey to this problem, has stunning parallels with Israel's policy concerning Hamas.

Hamas and PKK are both terror organizations. Both organizations have less militant branches. The less militant branch of PKK is called DTP.

Both terror organizations have attacked innocent civilians, killed innocent children, blew up busses etc. In both cases, the reason of the existence of such terror organization is the existence of an unsolved problem.

Turkey wasn't really a champion of soft politics dealing with the Kurdish problem. Since the conflict with PKK began, over 32,000 people have been killed, over a million of people have been relocated, over a 1000 villages have been destroyed and many people have disappeared without a trace. The massive human rights violations of Turkey have been subject to cases at the European Court of Human Rights. In many cases, Turkey had to pay reparations.

If the majority of the Turkish people believes that Turkey has never spilled innocent blood in this conflict, they have to be considered as quite naive.

Turkey has never dealt with this issue in a rational and careful way. To make a picture of it, Turkey was more a butcher cutting the cancer cells and taking a lot of healthy cells with them and it didn't act like a surgeon who cut out only the cancer cells... As said, Turkey was certainly not a champion of soft politics concerning this problem.

This is very similar to the problem of Israel and the reason why it was criticized by many governments of the international community. Most of the countries (I'm talking about the reasonable ones) have acknowledged Israel's right to self-defense but criticized the disproportional way of Israel in this conflict.

In my opinion, Turkey with its own conflict and the difficulties how they dealt with it, should have the best understanding towards Israel. But it's not the case. As said before, the parallels are really stunning...

I think that Turkey can't possibly be a mediator in this conflict because RTE has showed that he is not neutral. I don't see any difference between him and his party and the non-militant branch of Hamas. I agree with Blunt that he should go there and become their king.

Besides all that, it shows that RTE lacks of format for international diplomacy. A person in his position must be able to control his emotions. It's such a shame.

I do believe that it affected Turkey's place in the world. With the reaction of RTE in Davos, Turkey came closer to the Arab world and built up a distance to the West.

â™¥BarÄ±ÅŸ Awarenessâ™¥

Um actually he did nothing,
accept damage relations
with who once was a close
friend. Palestine's situation
is no different then it was
before, and isn't that what it
was suppose to be about.
Instead he made it all about him,
and the fact he stormed off
because he was faced with a
a question he could not answer,
was not only proof of that it
also left the world conscience
of his real intelligence. lol
Anyone can blurt out what is the
obvious, but when he was asked
if he had another solution, he chose
to blow, instead of flow...
In my view, he is suppose to be a
a diplomat, not a ranting, tantrum taking
illiterate fool. Diplomats lacking
diplomacy are just wastes. He will be noted
now for his not once offering or contributing
anything that could help to end the
violence, but for making a spectacle out
of himself, and his country.

readylaura

Supporting Palestine isn't up for Turkey. Tayyip Erdogan made a huge mistake. Yeah, what has been going on in Gazza is pretty bad and inconvenient but Turkey needs global support from the world. Turkey doesn't need any Arabs, Turkey needs to co-operate with European and Israeli companies, governments and so... Look what he has done for 8 minutes! Now everything is ruined for Turkey. He is not an ordinary person who has the right to be mad at a moderator because of not being given equal amount of time, he is the prime minister of Turkey.
After all those years, Turkey has been trying to prove the world that it's people are gentle, nice, and European-ish. Now nobody believes in that. If Turkish prime minister, starts shouting like "one minutesss... one minutess.. eksxcuse me" think of the other people in that country. The prime minister did a very wrong thing. It's an economic forum and there is definitely no need for a prime minister shouting like "you know how to kill" Or this could have been a proper sentence in the statement of an Arabian prime minister but not Turkish...

He is very stupid to have done that. What they will put me behind the bars too?

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