Turkey names latest airport after Salahuddin al Ayyubi RA

[Zarvan]

Agencies | 07 Shabaan 1436/27 May 2015

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday opened a new airport in a restive eastern province dogged by a Kurdish separatist insurgency, naming the facility for a celebrated Muslim resistance leader of Kurdish origin.

Erdogan inaugurated the airport in Yuksekova in Hakkari province, close to the border with Iran and Iraq, alongside Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a joint appearance ahead of June 7 elections.

They announced the airport would be named after Salahuddin al Ayyubi to remember the 12th century founder of the Ayyubid dynasty who led Muslim resistance against Christian crusaders in the Middle East who sought to control Jerusalem.

Salahuddin was also the liberator of Masjid al Aqsa.

Of Kurdish origin, he is known simply as Saladin and in Arabic as Salah ad-Din.

“We are naming this airport Salahuddin al Ayyubi to send a message of solidarity and brotherhood and to say that Jerusalem belongs to Kurds, Turks, Arabs and Muslims forever.”

Erdogan also showed a copy of the Quran, in Kurdish language translation during a ceremony in Hakkari, Turkey, on Tuesday.

Hakkari province was for years one of the centers of the decades-long separatist insurgency of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), with almost daily attacks on the security forces.

The opening of an airport at that time by Turkey’s top leadership would have been inconceivable.

“Hakkari is walking to the future with the airport,” said Erdogan, complaining that the opening had been pushed back by two years because of PKK-linked violence in the region.
The airport is the second to be opened by Davutoglu and Erdogan within days after they inaugurated Turkey’s first artificial island airport on the Black Sea last week.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) touts the implementation of large infrastructure projects as one of its major achievements during its almost 13-year rule of Turkey.

However in the June 7 legislative elections, the party faces a far stiffer challenge than in previous years and Erdogan has notably stepped up his campaign appearances in a bid to boost the party.
Turkey names latest airport after Salahuddin al Ayyubi RA | Cii Broadcasting

 

[Zhukov]

Democracy is a bitch. lolz

 

[faisal6309]

He died and was buried in a mausoleum (was built after three years of death of Saladin ) in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. No one cared about him. No one remembered him even after 7 centuries when German Emperor Wilhelm II donated a new marble sarcophagus to the mausoleum. But he got famous in 20th century (after 8 centuries). Now Muslims say that we are proud of him. WTH

 

[bsruzm]

“We are naming this airport Salahuddin al Ayyubi to send a message of solidarity and brotherhood and to say that Jerusalem belongs to Muslims forever.”

Sounds like a message to Israeli activities in Mesopotamia

 

[ghoul]

He died and was buried in a mausoleum (was built after three years of death of Saladin ) in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. No one cared about him. No one remembered him even after 7 centuries when German Emperor Wilhelm II donated a new marble sarcophagus to the mausoleum. But he got famous in 20th century (after 8 centuries). Now Muslims say that we are proud of him. WTH

Wait for "freedom fighters for democracy" to take over Damascus, and they'd demolish his mausoleum for it's "al-biddah".

 

[livingdead]

was not saladin a kurd?

 

[atatwolf]

was not saladin a kurd?

You mean the historical Saladin? He didn't speak Kurdish. Some say he might have some Kurdish ancestry but most likely he was Arab/Turk culturally and in identity.

 

[Zarvan]

You mean the historical Saladin? He didn't speak Kurdish. Some say he might have some Kurdish ancestry but most likely he was Arab/Turk culturally and in identity.

He was Kurd and yes spoke Kurdish too but preferred Arabic.

 

[Worf]

Sounds like a message to Israeli activities in Mesopotamia

Or the 'independent' president is trying to round up Kurdish votes for his AKP. Isn't it obvious? why do you lot have to connect Jews to everything.....

 

[atatwolf]

He was Kurd and yes spoke Kurdish too but preferred Arabic.

This not true. He spoke Turkish/Arabic only.

 

[Zarvan]

This not true. He spoke Turkish/Arabic only.

Its completely true he hardly spoke Turkish and he was Kurd

 

[atatwolf]

Its completely true he hardly spoke Turkish and he was Kurd

That is not true. He was also probably not Kurdish since there is only 1 source and that is questionable:

"The medieval historian Ibn Athir, who is a Kurd and therefore his credibility is questionable, relates a passage from another commander: "


By the way his brother was called Turan-Shah, would a Kurd be called Turan-shah? LOL. Good try though.

 

[-SINAN-]

This not true. He spoke Turkish/Arabic only.

Its completely true he hardly spoke Turkish and he was Kurd

Okay, gentleman lay down your sources, pls.

 

[Nefer]

He died and was buried in a mausoleum (was built after three years of death of Saladin ) in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. No one cared about him. No one remembered him even after 7 centuries when German Emperor Wilhelm II donated a new marble sarcophagus to the mausoleum. But he got famous in 20th century (after 8 centuries). Now Muslims say that we are proud of him. WTH

ikr, revered in the west, but ignored in the middle east. And there are many answers, but what is the truth.

 

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Agencies | 07 Shabaan 1436/27 May 2015

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday opened a new airport in a restive eastern province dogged by a Kurdish separatist insurgency, naming the facility for a celebrated Muslim resistance leader of Kurdish origin.

Erdogan inaugurated the airport in Yuksekova in Hakkari province, close to the border with Iran and Iraq, alongside Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a joint appearance ahead of June 7 elections.

They announced the airport would be named after Salahuddin al Ayyubi to remember the 12th century founder of the Ayyubid dynasty who led Muslim resistance against Christian crusaders in the Middle East who sought to control Jerusalem.

Salahuddin was also the liberator of Masjid al Aqsa.

Of Kurdish origin, he is known simply as Saladin and in Arabic as Salah ad-Din.

“We are naming this airport Salahuddin al Ayyubi to send a message of solidarity and brotherhood and to say that Jerusalem belongs to Kurds, Turks, Arabs and Muslims forever.”

Erdogan also showed a copy of the Quran, in Kurdish language translation during a ceremony in Hakkari, Turkey, on Tuesday.

Hakkari province was for years one of the centers of the decades-long separatist insurgency of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), with almost daily attacks on the security forces.

The opening of an airport at that time by Turkey’s top leadership would have been inconceivable.

“Hakkari is walking to the future with the airport,” said Erdogan, complaining that the opening had been pushed back by two years because of PKK-linked violence in the region.
The airport is the second to be opened by Davutoglu and Erdogan within days after they inaugurated Turkey’s first artificial island airport on the Black Sea last week.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) touts the implementation of large infrastructure projects as one of its major achievements during its almost 13-year rule of Turkey.

However in the June 7 legislative elections, the party faces a far stiffer challenge than in previous years and Erdogan has notably stepped up his campaign appearances in a bid to boost the party.
Turkey names latest airport after Salahuddin al Ayyubi RA | Cii Broadcasting

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