{"id":823451,"date":"2023-12-04T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=823451"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:18:40","slug":"is-hamas-a-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/12\/04\/is-hamas-a-terrorist-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Hamas a terrorist organization?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by several countries, including the United States, Canada, the European Union, Israel, and others. However, it is important to note that opinions on this matter can vary, and different countries and entities may have different perspectives on the classification of Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some people such as Turkish president Erdogan have the opposite opinion. Turkish president Erdogan said that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/filistin-hamas-askerleri-1024x624.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-823453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/filistin-hamas-askerleri-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/filistin-hamas-askerleri-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/filistin-hamas-askerleri-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/filistin-hamas-askerleri-1536x936.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/filistin-hamas-askerleri-2048x1248.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some people agree that Hamas is not just a terrorist organization, but far worse and too big to be labeled as terrorists. They believe that they are a political party that also has its own military and enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hamas-militanlari.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-823454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hamas-militanlari.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hamas-militanlari-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The foot soldiers are trained radicals who blindly follow their billionaire leaders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by several countries, including the United States, Canada, the European Union, Israel, and others. However, it is important to note that opinions on this matter can vary, and different countries and entities may have different perspectives on the classification of Hamas. Some people such as Turkish president Erdogan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":823453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[10436,1059],"class_list":["post-823451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-filistin","tag-hamas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}