Bank tied to Turkish government tied to terrorist attacks in Israel?

Washington Examiner:
The survivors of a 2015 terrorist attack in the West Bank have filed a lawsuit against a bank with ties to the Turkish government on Monday, accusing the institution of supporting the terrorist group Hamas.

The estate and children of Eitam Henkin, a U.S. national who was killed by Hamas terrorists while traveling in the West Bank in 2015, filed the lawsuit in federal court. Court documents accuse the Turkey-based Kuveyt bank of aiding and abetting Hamas through "knowingly providing it substantial assistance via financial services" channeled through both the U.S. and international financial systems between 2012 and 2015. Kuveyt's primary shareholder is the General Directorate of Associations, an arm of the Turkish government.

The lawsuit could provide evidence of what some experts believe is the Turkish government's continued support for terrorism and a drift away from its once close relationship with the U.S. and Western powers under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

"If you look at the overall direction of Turkey, it is going in the wrong way," Jonathan Schanzer, a former Treasury official and current senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told the Washington Examiner.

"Sponsorship of Hamas, allowing for jihadists to cross the border to fight in Syria on the side of dangerous Islamist groups, including al Qaeda and ISIS, facilitating sanctions evasion on behalf of the Iranian regime, support for the Muslim Brotherhood. These are foreign policy decisions that the Turkish government has made under Erdoğan."
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Erdogan is an Islamist who also appears to have aided ISIS as well as Hamas.   Erdogan has made some really goofy statements including trying to claim that Muslims discovered America.  The reality is their only tie to the discovery of America is their cutting of the European trade routes to India which led Colombus to try to find a different route.  That is why he called those he met on the discovery of the new world "Indians."  While the earlier migrants to American were not Indians, they were also not "indigenous people"  They were earlier migrants from Asia.

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