Burak Association recently announced that Israel and its
public in 2018 about the unjust, unlawful practices and human rights violations
of Jerusalem and the Masjid al-Aqsa were introduced to the public by a press
release.In return, the Israeli Foreign Ministry in
its press statement claimed that the news about restrictions on the visit of
Turkish citizens to Jerusalem was et unfounded “and tried to justify it by
accepting the ban of opening a Turkish flag in Meccid-i Aksa.Whenas, this
statement of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs is incompatible with the
facts and practices.
In the sixth article of the new
policy applied by the Israeli Ministry of Interior for our Turkish guests
coming to Jerusalem ı, the Our guests who apply for visas have the right to
come once a year to Jerusalem . This sentence is the most precise and clear
statement of restrictions on visits to Jerusalem and Masjid al-Aqsa. Moreover,
the restrictions are not limited to this. Besides, it is stated in the second
article of the same announcement that for each group to visit to Jerusalem, the
firms should pay the $ 15 thousand bail fee. It is also stated in the fifth
article of the announcement that this bail will be confiscated by the Ministry
of Interior due to the provocative action of the visitors (drawing flags,
shouting slogans, discussing with the police, protesting and demonstrating). In
this way, Israel is intimidated by the responsibility of imposing
responsibility on the visitors to the tourism agencies, and the visit to Jerusalem
makes the organization difficult.
As of 2015, it is understood
from the declarations of the tourist agencies and the results of the visa
application that there is no visa when they want to visit Jerusalem without the
parents of the young people under the age of 18 years. For this reason,
especially the applications for the visit of the secondary school youth to
Jerusalem are not accepted by the firms. This embodiment is another example of
the restrictions mentioned.
In the aforementioned press statement
of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is said that it is forbidden to
open the flag of any country or any organization, including Israel, not only
the Turkish flag in Meccid-i Aksa. Thus, the prohibition of opening the Turkish
Flag is officially confirmed. In addition, there are many photographs about the
intervention of the Jews who opened the Israeli flag in Al-Aqsa Mosque. As it
is seen, prohibited is not applied to Jews.
In the press
release as the justification of the ban; Mek This ban does not have any
political justification, it is only due to the fact that the Masjid al-Aqsa is
a sacred space and that this sanctity is respected “.The state of Israel, who defended the ban for a reason
such as respecting the ban, has for years disregarded all the sacred values and
entered into the place of worship by means of its postals and intervened with
weapons. and it is known that he has carried out countless atrocities. Is this
Israel´s sacred respect?
It should be known that Jerusalem and
Masjid al-Aqsa are a sacred value of the entire Islamic Ummah. The occupation
and oppression there is never acceptable. As we are the followers of what has
been done so far, we will inform the public that we will be the followers of
unfair and unlawful practices.
Adem YENIHAYAT
President Burak Association
