Category Archives: Turkey
Catholic bishop reportedly stabbed in Turkey
From The Examiner. H/T Fjordman
ANKARA, Turkey (Map, News) – A Roman Catholic bishop has been stabbed to death in southern Turkey, the state-run news agency reported.
Luigi Padovese, the pope’s apostolic vicar in Anatolia, was attacked in his home in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, the Anatolia news agency reported. There was no immediate confirmation from the Vatican.
Private NTV television quoted police as saying the priest’s driver is suspected in the killing, but it did not say if the driver had been arrested. The station said the priest died in a hospital.
The killing is the latest in a string of attacks in recent years on Christians in Turkey, where Christians make up less than 1 percent of the 70 million population.
More on the Flotilla. Video evidence appearing everywhere.
This one is good
U.N. Watch speaks to condemnation of Israel
Peace activists
Sister Theresa might have an excuse for carrying a condom. But not for using one.
H/T Tundra Tabloids
Where is the ‘flotilla’ for the real starving?
A regular reader and commenter on Vlad, was kind enough to send us two pictures. If one tells a thousand words, then two tells a million. The first one, you may have seen a few posts back:
Here, the fat hits the fire.
If you look at #8 for men, and #3 for women, you may suspect that the frequently made claims that Israel is starving the Palestinians is not in accordance with the facts.
Below, a food market in Gaza:
However, there is a group on Earth that is being deliberately starved and right to death in large numbers. They are being taken as sexual and hard labour slaves. They are being treated as badly as any group on earth has been treated shy of with modern deliberate mass methods of torture and extermination. But historically, this typically is as bad is it can get just shy of genocide and frankly, one might make the case that this is genocide.
Indeed, the lies about Israel and its alleged treatment of its neighbours, when the reverse is more the case. That Muslims who sell property to Jews in Judea and Sumeria are often killed, sometimes by their own families, while Muslim Arabs live as full Israeli citizens with greater rights in some ways than the Jewish population. I believe that an Arab Muslim has the right not to serve in the Israeli military for example, while non-orthodox-Jews do not.
Meanwhile….
Just in case the last image left you feeling hungry and depressed, an add for a new five star restaurant in Gaza
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Thank you for your great emails Proud Kaffir
Michael Coren on Turkey’s hypocricy
On Flotilla people, peace activists, night goggles and jihad
JPost.com
IDF: Global Jihad on flotilla
Photo by: Associated Press
IDF: Global Jihad on flotilla
By YAAKOV KATZ
06/01/2010 22:41
50 of Mavi Marmara passengers tied to global jihad network, refusing to identify themselves.
Dozens of passengers who were aboard the Mavi Marmara Turkish passenger ship are suspected of having connections with global jihad-affiliated terrorist organizations, defense officials said on Tuesday, amid growing concerns that Turkish warships would accompany a future flotilla to the Gaza Strip.
According to the defense officials, the IDF has identified about 50 passengers on the ship who could have terrorist connections with global jihad-affiliated groups.
During its searches of the Mavi Marmara on Tuesday, the military also discovered a cache of bulletproof vests and night-vision goggles, as well as gas masks. On Monday morning, at least nine foreign activists were killed during the navy’s takeover of the Mavi Marmara, which was trying to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The group of over 50 passengers with possible terror connections have refused to identify themselves and were not carrying passports. Many of them were carrying envelopes packed with thousands of dollars in cash.
The military is working to identify the passengers and is looking into the possibility that some of them have been involved in terror attacks. Some of them are apparently known Islamic extremists.
“This is the group that was behind the violent lynch against the naval commandos,” a defense official said. “They came on board the ship prepared and after they had trained for the expected navy takeover.” Continue Reading →
Dutch MP calls out Turkey and exposes hypocricy beautifully
he Gaza flotilla and the maritime blockade of Gaza – Legal background
The Gaza flotilla and the maritime blockade of Gaza – Legal background
A maritime blockade is in effect off the coast of Gaza. It has been imposed, as Israel is currently in a state of armed conflict with the Hamas regime that controls Gaza. 
1. A maritime blockade is in effect off the coast of Gaza. Such blockade has been imposed, as Israel is currently in a state of armed conflict with the Hamas regime that controls Gaza, which has repeatedly bombed civilian targets in Israel with weapons that have been smuggled into Gaza via the sea.
2. Maritime blockades are a legitimate and recognized measure under international law that may be implemented as part of an armed conflict at sea.
3. A blockade may be imposed at sea, including in international waters, so long as it does not bar access to the ports and coasts of neutral states.
4. The naval manuals of several western countries, including the US and England recognize the maritime blockade as an effective naval measure and set forth the various criteria that make a blockade valid, including the requirement of give due notice of the existence of the blockade.
5. In this vein, it should be noted that Israel publicized the existence of the blockade and the precise coordinates of such by means of the accepted international professional maritime channels. Israel also provided appropriate notification to the affected governments and to the organizers of the Gaza protest flotilla. Moreover, in real time, the ships participating in the protest flotilla were warned repeatedly that a maritime blockade is in effect. Continue Reading →
Important: Who is behind this mock-humanitarian mission to Gaza?
Gates of Vienna does some stellar detective work here.
Monday, May 31, 2010
The Milli Görüs Connection
by Baron Bodissey
“Democracy is a Western error.”
The world is aghast at what Israel did early this morning off the coast of Gaza. It is shocked — shocked! — at the indiscriminate slaughter of “unarmed civilians” in the Free Gaza Flotilla.
According to AKI, the Italian foreign minister is outraged:
“I strongly condemn the killing of civilians,” Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini said Monday in response to the incident. The Italian government asked the Israeli ambassador in Rome for an explanation about the attack. [emphasis added]
And the Turkish foreign ministry condemned Israel’s actions:
“Israel has once again clearly demonstrated that it does not value human lives and peaceful initiatives through targeting innocent civilians,” the statement said. [emphasis added]
Leaving aside for the moment the adjectives “innocent” and “unarmed” modifying the word “civilians” — how civilian were the operatives who attempted to run the blockade into Gaza?
The Israeli government insists that the organizers of the flotilla were no more “civilian” than terrorists are:
Deputy Israeli foreign minister Danny Ayalon on Monday sought to justify an attack on an aid flotilla bringing supplies to Gaza by saying the organisers of the blockade-breaking effort had ties to international terrorists…
“We couldn’t allow the opening of a corridor of smuggling arms and terrorists,” Ayalon said during a news conference at the foreign ministry.
But what were the specific connections between “Free Gaza” and Islamic terrorism?
Our Flemish correspondent VH has answered this question for us: the trail of breadcrumbs leads back to the militant Turkish Islamic organization Milli Görüs. Many thanks to VH for compiling the following report based on English-language articles and material translated from the Dutch:
First, from Trouw:
Turkish organization IHH linked to extremism
The Turkish organization IHH, also known as “Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom and Humanitarian Relief” [its German sister organization is “Internationale Humanitäre Hilfsorganisation”, and the Dutch branch is “Internationale Humanitaire Hulporganisatie”], is an international Turkish NGO operating in over a hundred countries and enjoying consultative membership status in the United Nations Economic and Social Council, which was present at one of the ships in “aid convoy” to Gaza, has two faces: a relief organization and friend of extremists. In Turkey the organization primarily enjoys support from “conservative” Muslims. Continue Reading →
Unusual ‘humanitarian supplies’ found on flotilla ship
Israelis remind Turkey of its macabre and grotesque hypocricy
Please go to this site and look at a series of photos of a protest which puts a rather stunningly clear perspective on this mornings flotilla event. Remember, these boats where sent by Turkey as part of a propaganda campaign against Israel.
Iran, Turkey, Israel, Brazil, enriching uranium and three card monty
1st: From STRATFOR
Iran Nuclear Swap Deal Signed – Original Document
May 17, 2010 | 0944 GMT
Final document as obtained by CNNTurk from the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
JOINT DECLARATION BY IRAN, TURKEY AND BRAZIL
(17 May 2010)
Having met in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, the undersigned have agreed on the
following Declaration:
1. We reaffirm our commitment to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons and in accordance with the related articles of the NPT, recall the right of all
State Parties, including the Islamic Republic of Iran, to develop research, production
and use of nuclear energy (as well as nuclear fuel cycle including enrichment
activities) for peaceful purposes without discrimination.
2. We express our strong conviction that we have the opportunity now to begin a forward
looking process that will create a positive, constructive, non-confrontational
atmosphere leading to an era of interaction and cooperation.
3. We believe that the nuclear fuel exchange is instrumental in initiating cooperation in
different areas, especially with regard to peaceful nuclear cooperation including
nuclear power plant and research reactors construction.
4. Based on this point the nuclear fuel exchange is a starting point to begin cooperation
and a positive constructive move forward among nations. Such a move should lead to
positive interaction and cooperation in the field of peaceful nuclear activities replacing
and avoiding all kinds of confrontation through refraining from measures, actions and
rhetorical statements that would jeopardize Iran’s rights and obligations under the
NPT.
The other two stories which reveal the game are below the readmore
Sacrificed Like Sheep
Concerning my previous post about the halal-slaughtered shop owner in Denmark: the date of the referenced Armenian massacre was 1895, and not 1915. Twenty years before the Armenian Genocide of the Great War, an Ottoman massacre of Armenians took place in Urfa.
Andy Bostom has kindly pointed us to the reference in his book, The Legacy of Jihad (page 674), citing Lord Kinross in The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire (New York: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1979, pp. 559-560):
Cruelest and most ruinous of all were the massacres at Urfa, where the Armenian Christians numbered a third of the total population. Here in December 1895, after a two-months siege of their quarter, the leading Armenians assembled in their cathedral, where they drew up a statement requesting Turkish official protection. Promising this, the Turkish officer in charge surrounded the cathedral with troops. Then a large body of them, with a mob in their wake, rushed through the Armenian quarter, where they plundered all houses and slaughtered all adult males above a certain age. When a large group of young Armenians were brought before a sheikh, he had them thrown down on their backs and held by their hands and feet. Then, in the words of an observer, he recited verses of the Koran and ‘cut their throats after the Mecca rite of sacrificing sheep.’ [emphasis added].