Category: Turkey

As-Saḥāb presents: “Message to the people of Turkey” by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

UPDATE: Flashpoint Partners released a transcript of  Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri’s most recent video message titled: “Message to the people of Turkey.” Here is a brief abstract of the transcript and below it is the entire transcript:

In an audiotape titled “Message to the Muslim Turkish People”, produced by As-Sahab and released on August 15, 2010, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri said that “Change will come if the Turks decided to demand their government stop cooperating with Israel and recognizing it, and stop sending its forces to kill Muslims in Afghanistan, and stop fighting Islam and its Sharia. The Turkish people must hold the responsibility of its government’s continued recognition of those who invaded Palestine and persistence in participating with the Crusaders in killing Muslims in Afghanistan. The Turkish people must regain the glorious role that the Ottoman State carried out in defense of the Muslim homelands in general and Palestine in particular.” He argued that “The role of the Muslim Turkish people in defending Islam and Muslims cannot diminish to simply sending a ship or a number of ships to aid Gaza.” And he reminded the Turks that “The Ottoman Turks used to be the mujahideen against every greedy and aggressor, and they weren’t only donors of a few tons of aid.”

Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri- “Message to the Muslim Turkish People”
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Articles of the Week – 7/3-7/9

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Sunday July 4:
Book Review of “The World for Ransom: Piracy Is Terrorism, Terrorism Is Piracy” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Pragati: https://bit.ly/9xbU8r
“The Transformation of Algerian Islamist Parties” – Amel Boubekeur, The Maghreb Center Journal: https://bit.ly/bAYfIm
“Al Qaeda In Kashmir” – Eric Randolph, Current Intelligence: https://bit.ly/d2muus
Monday July 5:
“AQAP Inspire Magazine is Nothing New” – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/aWduVO
Tuesday July 6:
“Indonesia: The Dark Side of Jama’ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT)” – International Crisis Group: https://bit.ly/aUUMun
“Un-Inspired” – Thomas Hegghammer, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/9ZB6hV
Wednesday July 7:
French Doctrine for Counterinsurgency at the Tactical Level https://bit.ly/bZcizW
“Observations of Turkish Islamist Politics: Islamic Democrats or Enemies of Turkish Secularism?” – Youssef Aboul-Enein, Small Wars Journal: https://bit.ly/9kVhj3
“Pakistan’s Competing Jihadists” – Praveen Swami, The Hindu: https://bit.ly/acCq3N
Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group, Periodical Review June 2010 – No. 2, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism: https://bit.ly/8XshP8
“Asian influence in the Middle East — friend or foe?” – Geoffrey Kemp, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/dxWdra
Thursday July 8:
Salafi-Jihadis and the North Caucasus: Is There a New Phase of the War in the Making? – Murad Batal al-Shishani, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/aDHJa2
Friday July 9:
“Resistance Land- Hezbollah’s new theme park” – Andrew Table, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/aJpnwW
“The Legal War on Terror for the week of 7/2-7/8” – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/9J7Ssq
“The Salafists: the Latest in Islamist Politics” – François Burgat, Le Monde: https://bit.ly/d0vtLF
Interview with Marjane Satrapi, author of the graphic novel Persepolis – Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/akEZae