Russian strongman Vladimir Putin enthusiastically praised Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday for his “leading role” in supporting the jihadist terror organization Hamas, describing Erdogan as “doing everything” to improve the situation in Gaza “for the better.”
Putin made the remarks during his traditional end-of-year press conference on Thursday, which lasted four hours and three minutes. Putin set his own record for longest end-of-year press conference in 2013, answering hand-picked questions from sympathetic reporters for nearly five hours.
A Turkish journalist asked Putin on Thursday his opinion of Turkey’s role in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, a Sunni jihadist group that triggered the current war by invading Israel from its stronghold in Gaza on October 7 and killing over 1,200, engaging in a wide variety of atrocities…
