Category Archives: Turkey

Seems the PM of Turkey is some pissed at the US over Wikileak material

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Thanks to the efforts of some very kind people nearby, I managed to get this highly amusing video translated of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an desperately attempting to threaten his way out of the allegations against him exposed by wikileaks.

Below the video, some details from Hurrietdaily

Wednesday, December 1, 2010
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. DAILY NEWS photo, Selahattin SÖNMEZ
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. DAILY NEWS photo, Selahattin SÖNMEZ

In a harshly worded response to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said Wednesday that he would file legal action again U.S. envoys he accused of making false claims against him.

Speaking during a municipal ceremony in Ankara, Erdo?an called on the U.S. administration to take action to discipline the diplomats who “slandered” him in the leaked State Department documents.

“This is the United States’ problem, not ours… Those who have slandered us will be crushed under these claims, will be finished and will disappear,” the prime minister said in his first comprehensive comments about the WikiLeaks release.

“My friends are working [to take action] against these diplomats in terms of national and international law. We will continue this process there. Thereafter, they [the diplomats] have to think [about the consequences],” Erdo?an said. “We have discussed these issues with the U.S. administration. They have extended their apologies, but it’s not enough. They have to take all necessary measures against these diplomats.” Continue Reading →

Turkey pounds its chest at Israel

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Two news items where Turkey trash talks Israel today:

Turkish President Says Any Cooperation Between Israel And NATO Out Of Question

From Turkish Weekly:

Friday, 3 December 2010

PARIS (A.A) – Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul said that any cooperation between Israel and NATO was out of question.

In an interview with Euronews, Gul said that the missile defense system by NATO was related to only NATO members, stating that Israel was not a member of NATO.

“Any cooperation between Israel and NATO is out of question. Israel cannot use NATO’s means,” he said.

Asked whether or not Turkey still considered Israel a friend and allied country after its raid on Mavi Marmara, Gul said, “Israel’s raid changed many things. Israeli army attacked on an aid flotilla in international waters and killed many people. It is impossible to forget it. A country which is subject to international law and a member of the UN should have fulfilled requirements of the international law. Israel did not compensate it.” President Gul said that Israel lost Turkey’s friendship.

Nine people, including eight Turks and one U.S. citizen of Turkish descent, were killed when Israeli forces raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in international waters on May 31. Around 30 people were wounded in the attack. The incident cast a serious blow to Turkey-Israeli relations. Turkey demanded an official apology from Israel, urging it to pay damages for the victims and lift the blockade over Gaza.

Gul expressed his reaction to axis shift discussions regarding Turkey and said, “all these things are wrong. Turkey’s course is clear. Turkey is working to reach the most developed democratic standards and economic standards. The country amends its constitution and laws. Turkey pursues an all-around policy.”

In regard to Turkey’s approach toward Iranian nuclear issue, Gul said that Turkey was sensitive to an issue concerning its neighbor.

Gul said that Turkey had a sound determination regarding its EU accession process.


Friday, 3 December 2010

2. “Turkey and Israel are no longer friends” Euronews:

Turkey is transforming. Ankara is developing economic and diplomatic relations with its neighbours, prompting many in the global community to talk of “axis shift”. Turkish President Abdullah Gül has given a candid interview to euronews mapping out where his country might be heading next.

Euronews: Turkey is developing and extending its relations in the region and this has led a flurry of debate in the West. Where is the country heading? Is Turkey turning away from the West? Is it shifting on its axis? Continue Reading →

And the next Nobel peace prize goes to….

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Imagine if you would that the government of Germany was threatening to destroy Turkey every day. That the government of Germany was making routine speeches on public media where Turkey was condemned for various reasons and thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Germans were seen and heard in the background chanting Turkish Raus!

Imagine that the Germans were furiously working on manufacturing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them anywhere in the world. That the German nuclear program was utilizing a large fraction of the total GDP of the German state but that the Germans didn’t seem to care about the welfare of their own people, and instead, furiously ploughed forwards with a complex nuclear program they claimed was for peaceful purposes, but played wink wink nudge nudge with the worlds media and governments and everyone knew what it really was, and what it was really for.

Now imagine that the Turks having attempted numerous times and ways to alert the world to the danger to them, quietly invented a machine virus that would target pretty much only the specific computers and machines which run the sophisticated nuclear weapons program of the Germans and effectively ended the threat of a nuclear war, given that Turkey would return a German first strike with a Turkish one.

So the Turks have effectively thwarted a nuclear war which nearly certainly would have escalated beyond those two nations and did so without a single loss of life. With a mere bit of machine code. Probably the biggest move to peace in the history of the world. Well they should most certainly get the Nobel Peace prize. The government of Turkey and the makers of this amazing code.

So what is the chance that Israel will get it for Stuxnet?

Turkey’s youtube ban defines totalitarianism.

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“a court in Ankara late on Tuesday ordered the closure of the website again — this time for refusing to remove a secretly taped video showing the former chairman of the opposition in a bedroom with an aide.”

ANKARA (Reuters)

Turkey has reinstated a ban on YouTube just days after lifting it, state agency Anatolian said, as a dispute continued over the video-sharing website’s refusal to remove content deemed illegal in the EU candidate country.

Access to YouTube, a unit of Google Inc, has been banned by the Turkish government for more than two years after users posted videos Turkey says are insulting to the republic’s founder, Mustafa Kamal Ataturk.

A court on Saturday lifted the ban, which has drawn widespread criticism of Ankara’s restrictive Internet laws, after a German-based firm at the request of Turkish authorities removed the videos by using an automated copyright system designed by Google to protect copyrighted material.

YouTube later said it had reinstated the videos, arguing such videos did not violate users’ copyright.

But in the latest twist, a court in Ankara late on Tuesday ordered the closure of the website again — this time for refusing to remove a secretly taped video showing the former chairman of the opposition in a bedroom with an aide. Continue Reading →

Russian TV debate on Turkish flotilla to Gaza

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Hillel Nuer explains why the UN basically faked this report and decided it, as it so often does on all matters Israeli, before the investigation began, declining to hear or see evidence from the Israeli point of view.

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Excerpt of Transcript

Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, told Russia Today that the results of the recent UN report on the flotilla incident were pre-determined.

“This report was determined in advance, the Human Rights Council held an emergency session only a day or two after the flotilla incident happened,” Neuer said. “They declared Israel guilty of ‘an outrageous attack’, so the outcome was entirely pre-determined, and this is not something that’s exceptional.”

“In fact, Mary Robinson, who was the UN rights chief, said the Human Rights Council has a pattern of acting politically and not for human rights,” Hillel Neuer added. “Let’s remember who the membership is — Saudi Arabia, China, Colonel Gaddafi of Libya is now a member of the Human Rights Council. This is not a body that cares about human rights. This is a body that is political, that is engaged in a constant campaign to de-legitimize Israel, and human rights is the last thing on the minds of members like Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Libya.”

Rotterdam: Top official has links to radical Turkish organization

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from Islam in Europe:

A top official in Rotterdam, Bilal Taner, is in contact with a Turkish radical-Islamist organization, which is fiercely anti-Israeli and anti-American, openly supports the Hamas terror organization and glorifies martyrdom for Jihadists.

The warm personal connection with Rotterdam senior adviser Bilal Taner was recently clarified when he was extensively congratulated in an orthodox-religious manner on the Haksöz Haber website for the birth of his daughter. This website serves as a platform for radical Islamists, anti-Israeli and anti-American authors. The radical Turkish movement reject societies which are not based on the Koran.

The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism wrote in a 2005 report that “Haksöz is a Turkish-language Jihad website which glorifies martyrdom, calls for resistance against the occupation in Iraq and the Palestinian territories and shows torture scenes in Iraq”. The website shows photos of dead Hamas members with titles such as “to the light of the Koran” and “The martyrs light our way.”

The movement supports the armed struggle of Hamas, Which is called a terrorist organization by the EU. In the German-language American Jewish Committee 2006 report “Antisemitism – Made in Iran” (Antisemitismus – Made in Iran) it says: “The goals of Haksöz include uniting Muslims in the battle against Israel and the United States”.

The orthodox-religious congratulations to ‘our brother in Rotterdam’ is signed by prominent members of the Turkish Hasöz Haber movement. Several of the congratulations to the Rotterdam policy official come from important activists who were passengers on the Mavi Marmaris, one of the ship in the flotilla which recently tried to break through the Gaza blockade. The attempt ended in a bloody encounter with the Israeli navy where several people were killed. The dead activists are honored as martyrs by Haksöz.

for the rest please visit IIE

Turkish government condemns alleged conservative Muslim attack on Istanbul art gallery

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With thanks to proud kaffir

From google news

By The Associated Press (CP) – 17 hours ago

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Islamic-rooted government has condemned an attack allegedly by conservative Muslims on people drinking cocktails outside an Istanbul art gallery, calling for understanding and respect for one another’s way of life in this largely Muslim but secular country.

Culture Minister Ertugrul Gunay said Thursday his government will seek the heaviest punishment for the culprits who beat and slightly injured five guests drinking in the street outside the gallery in Istanbul’s Tophane district on Tuesday evening. Alcohol is forbidden in Islam.

Gunay called on the gallery to the respect family values of the neighbourhood while also urging respect for different lifestyles and their right to be and work in that area.

Turkey is aspiring to become the first Muslim member of the European Union.

Germans begin to notice the adversarial stance of the Turkish Government

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This is an interesting news clip. It is a direct accusation of interference with the national interests of Germany as a state by Turkey and more, an attempt to undermine it.

Islam in Europe wrote an excellent piece about Turkish hypocrisy in this regard here.

The Emancipation of the Dhimmi & European Imposed Reforms

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Not to mention the genocide of the Armenians

The Ottoman Empire Reborn

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by Baron Bodissey

Much public concern about Islam is focused — with good reason — on Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Turkey, however, is an Islamic dark horse. We tend to think of it as Western, secular, and not a threat, but this is a mistake. It is dangerous not just because it has poured millions of unassimilated immigrants into Western Europe (and Milli Görüs along with them), but also because it is a member of NATO with a population that is relatively well-educated and in the midst of an Islamic revival.

Part of that revival involves the dream of a new Caliphate in the form of an Ottoman Empire upgraded for the 21st century. With the OIC — headed by a Turk, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu — gathering the Ummah together, the nascent Caliphate is ready to burst forth.

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has obvious ambitions to become the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire reborn. He and Mr. Ihsanoglu may have to duke it out to decide which one is to assume the throne of the Caliph.

Many thanks to JLH for translating the following essay about Turkey from Politically Incorrect.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan: The New Ottoman Empire
Erdogan: “We Are Now the World Power Turkey”

by Michael Stürzenberger and Eckhardt Kiwitt

It is an eerie scene with great symbolic power: the Turkish leader stands on a stage in front of a large world map from which sprouts an oversized tree with the Turkish flag. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan invited politicians of Turkish descent from all of Europe to this “world congress” in Istanbul, to initiate them into his policies. And these seem to be directed toward a new Ottoman Empire.

Original pictures of this incendiary event were “controversially” published in BR magazine. The reporter tells us that great-power-politics was being practiced here, with the motto: “Turks of all lands, unite.” With perfect seriousness, Erdogan said: “We are now the world power Turkey. Everyone should know that. Turkey is no longer a country whose agenda is set from outside, but a country that sets the agenda in the world.”

Eyewitness Ali Ertan Toprak, vice-president of the Alevite community of Germany, reported that the 1500-2000 politicians present were urged to “inoculate” the European culture with the Turkish in order to “Turkicise” these countries. Video follows [see the PI post for the video].

Only one representative from Germany spoke — the deputy general secretary of Milli Görüs, Mustafa Yeneroglu. Is it really necessary to mention that this organization is being surveilled in Germany because of activities dangerous to democracy?

Erdogan made unmistakably clear that “Islamophobia” in his opinion is a “crime against humanity.” This pugnacious concept, created by Ayatollah Khomeini, is intended to strangle Islam criticism in its cradle. An important element of Erdogan’s overall strategy of reaching out from Turkey to Islamize and Turkicize Germany. The deeply devout Erdogan may with assurance be defined as a fundamentalist. As a youth, he was a member of the radical Islamic organization Akincilar Dernegi. Erdogan is considered a political foster son Necmettin Erbakans and also belonged to the Milli Görüs movement. From 1994-1998, he was mayor of Istanbul and deputy chair of the Welfare Party RP, which was accused of being sympathetic to jihad and to the introduction of sharia. In 1998, this party was banned by the Turkish supreme court. Erdogan was banned for life from politics and sat in jail for ten months. The basis for the judgment was a speech with the legendary passage: “Democracy is only the train we board until we reach our goal. The mosques are our barracks, the minarets are our bayonets, the domes are our helmets, and the faithful are our soldiers.” Continue Reading →

STRATFOR: Man with gun in Turkish embassy Tel Aviv Israel

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August 17, 2010
A lawyer for the man who barricaded himself in the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv, who has kept in contact with the suspect by cell phone, said he is armed with a pistol and knife and claims he is being hunted by Israeli and Palestinian intelligence services because he has information “that could bring down several senior Palestinian Authority officials,” the Jerusalem Post reported Aug. 17.

Seems Turkey’s re-Islamification was documented in the 60s

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Thanks to Andrew Bostom for sending me this.

Uriel Heyd on Turkey’s Re-Islamization, Circa 1968: Over Four Decades Ahead of Today’s Vacuous “Analysts”

August 16th, 2010 (59 minutes ago) by Andrew Bostom |

Professor Uriel Heyd (d. 1968) described Turkey’s tenuous secularization and aggressive re-Islamization fully 42 years before todays “learned analysts” have finally come to the same pathetically belated realization…

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Since the recent Mavi Marmara flotilla affair—facilitated, and perhaps even orchestrated by the Turkish government—we have been inundated with excruciatingly belated, if not downright delinquent hand-wringing assessments by so-called “expert analysts” of Turkey. These “experts” lament what they view as Turkey’s “precipitous” return to Islamic fundamentalism under the current Erdogan-led AKP regime—as if this dangerous phenomenon emerged suddenly and fully formed from the head of Zeus al-Zawahiri.

A sobering, highly informed corrective to this cacophony of ill-informed Johnny and Janey-Come –Lately “learned analyst” voices was provided by the Israeli scholar of Ottoman and Republican Turkey, Professor Uriel Heyd (1913-1968)—just over forty-two years ago!

First, a brief biography of Heyd, derived from Professor Gabriel Baer’s opening tribute and Preface (pp. 5-6) to Heyd’s “Revival of Islam in Modern Turkey,” The Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 1968, pp. 5-27, and Professor Aharon Layish’s, “Uriel Heyd’s Contribution to the Study of the Legal, Religious, Cultural, and Political History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey,” Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1982, pp. 35-54.

Born Uriel Heydt on July 26, 1913, in Cologne, Germany, Heyd learned Hebrew in secondary school, and subsequently Arabic, Turkish, and Persian. He also studied law and economics, before ultimately focusing on oriental studies. Immigrating to Palestine in 1934, Heyd studied Islamic culture, Arabic language and literature, as well as the history of Palestine at Hebrew University under the tutelage of Professors G. Weil, L.A. Meyer, and the great scholar of Muslim-Jewish relations, S.D. Goitein. Upon graduation, Heyd continued his studies by learning Turkish in Istanbul (1939/40), subsequently joining the Middle East Department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine in 1943. Transferred to the Agency’s London office, Heyd completed a seminal analysis of the influential Turkish nationalist Ziya Gokalp (which was accepted as a PhD thesis by Hebrew University), while also studying Old and Middle Persian, Old Turkish, and Urdu at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the University of London. At SOAS, in addition, Heyd researched Ottoman diplomatic institutions and history under the renowned Ottomanist Professor Paul Wittek. Before joining the Hebrew University faculty in 1951, Heyd, between 1948 and 1950 served as a diplomat at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, and the Israeli Legation in Akara, Turkey. At Hebrew University, Heyd ascended rapidly within the Department of the History of the Muslim Countries, which he would direct for some years, becoming the Eliyahu Elath Chair of the History of the Muslim Peoples in 1968, shortly before his sudden death May 13, 1968.

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