Palestine Think Tank

Timeturk spoke with the man who kissed Turkish Prime Minister on his forehead during his visit to Poland.

WRITTEN BY M.Hasan UNCULAR / TIMETURK

Last Friday a man kissed Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on his forehead in his visit to Poland. Timeturk spoke with this man who lives in Poland with his two children and Polish wife. 

El Ali starts his words as, "My name is KHALED EL-ALI, 42 YEARS old, I have two children, Sara 11 years (the girl with PM Erdogan in the rose jacket), and Walid 9 years old. I’m a Palestinian refugee born in the camps of south Lebanon. I came to Poland in 1986 to study.  The conditions of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are very hard and bad so I preferred to stay in Poland after taking a master in computer science. Now I have a Polish wife Joanna. I have got a Polish passport. I have a small computer company. I am nearly “the second imam “ in the Gdansk Mosque. During the Israeli invasion of Gaza I was on the Polish TV and radio, defending our people in Gaza. During the war in Gaza we were watching the TV, crying, praying to Allah to save the children, to save the wounded people, to give them food to eat, water to drink, and to make the Jewish murderers blind not to see our brave Palestinian “boys” who were fighting the Israeli invasion. 

As Arab leaders were sleeping Erdogan gave Palestinians hope 

We were waiting for the Arab leaders to say something, to do something, but they were sleeping. Then came Erdogan and gave us the HOPE in Davos. Turkey gave us encouragement not to give up. When we saw the millions every day in the streets of Turkey we knew that we have got a victory. When You see that somebody there in Turkey is praying to Allah for you, is staying all the night, in very cold weather,  near the Israeli embassy for You, then You see the victory ! Yes Brother that helped our brave men in Palestine to survive against the Israeli army. That helped us (the Palestinians) in Europe to see the hope. That helped all the Muslims in the world to see how Islam is great, how Turkey is great, how Erdogan is great. 

How do you find Erdogan's Davos stance? 

I have watched this several times ! I couldn’t sleep that night. Every hour I was watching Aljazeera TV to see and to hear more comments. I was very proud of him. Every Palestinian, every Turk, every Muslim, every free human was proud of PM Erdogan.  

In Europe nobody says “no” to the Israelis, but along came Erdogan “the Real Turk” and said no to the liars, to the child killers and murderers. From that day he is the number one in Muslim world.  Turkey is the number one in the Muslim world. From that day I was praying to Allah to let me meet him, to let me kiss him, to kiss the ground under his foot. I wanted to say to him thank You. I wanted to say go and we are after You. When he came to Gdańsk we were in the seventh heaven! 

What can you say about Turkey- Palestine historical bonds? 

Turkey for us is like water for the tree. I feel that I belong to Turkey. Sultan Abdulhamid was our Sultan. My grandfather died shahid with the Turkish army. We know that one day Turkey will help us to get back Palestine. We are one nation, one blood. 

What is your message to the Turkish people and Tayyip Erdogan? 

I say to the Turkish people and PM Tayyip Erdogan that we love You, You are good people. No one helped Palestine like You! Thank YOU.  You are for us brothers and sisters. When I was in Istanbul in 2006 in Ramadan (only for six hours) I was very happy. I felt  that I was in my country!  Please remember that Palestine always needs Your help. Gaza is still crying and asks You to end the embargo. 

http://en.timeturk.com/palestine-always-needs-your-help-20036-haberi.html (thank you very much Hasan!)