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2003-03-31 Europe

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Posted by Murat 2003-03-31 01:19 am|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Turkey made itself irrelevant, and had better remain so. Ozkok's shrill voice and petty rudeness are the least of our worries. Spare us the details.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2003-03-31 03:29:45|| [radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentevents/] 2003-03-31 03:29:45|| Front Page Top

#2 This fight is unfortunate, because it is not the Turkish military who sandbagged the US military. And who pressured the military to hold one-man-one-vote-one-time elections, during Islamic revolutionary conditions? Islamaniacs blame capitalism for the economic backwardness caused by their interest (riba) prohibited social idiocy. Pakistan and Turkey would have collapsed by now, if not for the US subsidy.

Yeech!!!
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.jstern.CSIA.KSG/pakistan.htm
http://www.kashmiri-pandit.org/elibrary/pakrole/index.html

Posted by Anonon 2003-03-31 03:42:35|| 2003-03-31 03:42:35|| Front Page Top

#3 It might have to do with the stonings of the military assessment teams vehicles, with the teams inside, sent out to the countryside to determine why the Tomahawks crashed. The TV images showed armed Turkish military personnel standing around doing nothing to stop the stonings. Time to evacuate the remaining bases in Turkey. Another, if you don't want us, we'll be happy to leave.

Posted by Don 2003-03-31 08:57:59|| 2003-03-31 08:57:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Murat, I'm getting a little confused here. Would you please tell me the three countries that Turkey currently considers to be its best allies?

Posted by Tom 2003-03-31 10:51:03|| 2003-03-31 10:51:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Time to flush Turkey down the tubes unless they are willing to reciprocate when we give them aid. No more free lunches for these barbaric people. With the Bulgarians offering us basing and the probable establishment of long-term bases in Iraq, we have no need for the Turks.

And let them do it without one thin dime for the US, directly or indirectly. Their economy is already collapsing upon itself due to the terrible government there. They've voted themselves into this, now its time for the Turks to live with the consequences of thier actions.

Let them stew in their own Mustafa Kemal Ataturk created sewer. Let them deal with armed Armenians and Kurds until they learn to give those people equal rights, equal treatment and liberty.

Until such time as the Turks behave with honor as a true ally, we shoudl treat them as waht they are: of little consequence on the world stage, and an enemy of human rights and liberty, especially for their own opressed minorities.

Posted by OldSpook 2003-03-31 10:51:20|| 2003-03-31 10:51:20|| Front Page Top

#6 FYI - examples of historic Turk racism against the Kurds, After you research it, you wonder why the hell we supported these guys - it must have been political expediencey, first against the SOviets, then the Iraqis. With oth gone, we have no need to prop up the corrupt and thuggish Turkish society.

The Kemalist Turkish minister of justice Mahmut Asat Bozhurt, the then Turkish Minister of Justice, made the relationship of Turks and Kurds clear:

I believe that the Turk must be the only lord, the only master of this country. Those who are not of pure Turkish stock (Kurds and Armenians) can have only one right in this country, the right to be servants and slaves.

The results speak for themselves below:

Old archeological monuments and structure that proved the ancient history of Kurdish people in Anatolia were systematically destroyed. The words 'Kurds' and 'Kurdistan' were eradicated from all books and publications. Anything that would lead to a separate identity of the Kurdish people were eliminated in order yield the assimilation of the ethnically different Kurdish nation. Even the Kurdish language was banned, a fact unparalleled in history! No one in the state of Turkey was allowed to speak Kurdish, even though it was the language of thirty percent of the people. All Kurdish students were feed Turkish propaganda on the ethnic ancestry of the Kurdish people, they were taught that Kurds, were a pure 'Turkic race,' whereas in actuality the Kurds are ethnically Indo-Aryan, and the Turks are a mixture of Hun-Mongolian people. The Turkish education minister proclaimed that, the Kurds had forgotten their "Turkic" language in the fastness of the mountains of southeast Anatolia, thus referring to them as, "Mountain Turks.(Gunter)." The racist spoon feed propaganda of the Turkish educational institutions has reached to such a degree of reducibility, that it is often taught in the schools of Turkey, all the great Babylonian, Summerian, Egyptian, and Hittite civilizations had been created by the Turks(Kendal). In order to hide the fact that the Kurds had lived in Anatolia four thousand years before one Turk stepped in. The Turkish intelligentsia determined the Kurds came from Central Asia five thousands years ago. The situation deteriorated to the point where to state " I am a Kurd " was a crime so serious as to warrant the death penalty under Turkey's anti-terrorist laws (Kendal).

Posted by OldSpook 2003-03-31 11:04:27|| 2003-03-31 11:04:27|| Front Page Top

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