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Turkey Joins PLO-Hamas Propaganda Machine
by John M. Curtis
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January 16, 2015
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Blaming Israel for radical Islam around the globe,
Turkey’s 55-year-old Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu proved Israeli Foreign
Minister Avigdor Lieberman correct when he called 60-year-old Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan “an anti-Semitic bully” Jan. 14. With the Paris Charlie Ebdo satiric magazine attack that killed 12 journalists Jan.7,
Turkey shows its sympathies lie with lawless terrorists. Even Yemen’s al-Qaeda leader Nasr
al-Ansi admits that the attack was to avenge the prophet from satiric blasphemy,
nothing to do with what Turkey and Arab world calls the “Zionist entity.” Harboring Hamas’s leadership in
exile, Turkey has become a safe haven radical Palestinians fleeing the reach of
Israel Defense Forces and its Mossad intelligence service. “Provocations,” insists Davutoglu,
from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have helped radicalize the
Islamic world.
Before and after Osama bin Laden leveled the World Trade Center and part
of the Pentagon Sept. 11, 2001, he justified his mayhem citing his Palestinian
brothers, a common theme used by radical Islam to excuse lawlessness and
violence. “[Netanyahu] himself
killed, his army killed children in the playground. They killed our citizens and an
American citizen in international waters.
This is terrorism. Nobody can argue about Israeli aggression in Jerusalem in the al-Aqsa Mosque,” insisted
Davutoglu, not admitting Turkey role adding to the Sunni insurgency against
Bashar al-Assad’s Shiite government in Damscus.
“These provocations create frustration in the Muslim World and are
becoming one of the reasons why these radical groups are emerging,” said
Davutoglu, preaching the same propaganda as Bin Laden. Turkey’s public statements prove its
unfit for European Union membership.
While Erdogan and Davutoglu try to keep their message straight against
Israel, they also want a no-fly zone in Syria of aid-and-abet Syrian rebels in
toppling al-Assad’s Shiite regime.
Forget about blaming Israel for the Islamic state, Davutoglu called on a no-fly
zone to protect the city of Aleppo from al-Assad’s forces. “The source of the problem is the Assad regime’s brutality . . . [We want a] no-fly zone
. . . so that Aleppo will be protected at least against the air bombardment and
there will be no new refugees coming into Turkey,” said Davutoglu, forgetting
that he’s no longer blaming Netanyahu, putting the real blame on al-Assad. After catching flack for letting
Paris terrorist Ahmed Coulibaly’s wife Hayat Boumeddiene escape to Syria,
Turkish authorities fired back at the French for failing to arrest her. Boumeddiene escaped into Turkey and
then to Syria, making it difficult for French law enforcement.
Turkish officials know that with or without the Israeli-Palestinian
situation, radical Islam has its own agenda in the Middle East. Whoever’s behind the Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria, including Saddam Hussein’s former Baathist Republican Guards,
Israel has nothing to do with developments in Syria in Iraq. Fighting a sectarian war between
Sunnis and Shiites, the Saudi-backed insurgency against Bashar al-Assad seeks to
end Shiite rule in Syria. Blaming sectarian violence on Netanayhu is laughable to Sunni and Shiite insurgents
fighting Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Backed by Iran and Lebanon’s terror group Hezbollah, al-Assad has fought a heavily funded
insurgency since March 2011. President Barack Obama can’t decide whom to back in the four-year-old insurgency,
potentially changing the Mideast landscape should the insurgency succeed in
toppling al-Assad.
Warning of a “clash of civilizations,” Erdogan hinted speaking to a group
of businessmen in Ankara about the West’s war with Islam. “We are following with great concern
the attacks against Islam hidden behind the attack on the satirical magazine in
France,” said Erdogan, agreeing with the Jihadist justification for mayhem and
murder: That Islam is under attack
by the West. “Despite all our
efforts to prevent it, the clash of civilizations thesis is being brought to
life,” said Erdogan, empathizing with radical Islam’s attacks against the West. Faced with rooting out terror cells
in Belgium, the Brussels-based European Union should heed carefully Erdogan’s
paranoia about the West’s attack on Islam.
Erdogan doesn’t’s believe in the EU’s tradition of separating church and
state. Erdogan has no problem
speaking on behalf of Turkey’s
Sunni Muslim community.
Erdogan’s Turkey violates the principles of Turkey’s founding secular
leader Mustafa Kamal Ataturk after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Where Ataturk believed in a secular state with the government affording religious freedom
to Turkish citizens, Erdogan wears his Muslim religion on his sleeve. Calling Charlie Hebdo’s “survival
edition” depicting a tearful Mohammad as “terrorizing the freedom of others,”
Erdogan demonstrates Turkey’s fundamental incompatibility with the EU. Instead of reassuring Muslims that
the West isn’t at war with Islam, he sees Charlie Hebdo’s as proof of the war. Western Europe has a problem with
Muslim immigrants because North African and Mideat societies lack the economic
develop to support populations with jobs and opportunity. Erdogan knows that Muslim fundamentalism runs counter to democratic values and women’s
rights.
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