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CAMERON'S DESPICABLE TOADYING TO TURKEY
Daniel Greenfield
Eurasia Review
http://www.eurasiareview.com/201007296085/camerons-despicable-toadying-to-turkey.html
Thursday, 29 July 2010 11:29
It is sadly unsurprising that Prime Minister Cameron's highly
publicized trip to Turkey went with no mention of that country's
continued denial of the Armenian Genocide, and its suppression of
Kurdish and Armenian minorities. Indeed when Turkish leader Erdogan
discussed his threats of ethnically cleansing Armenians in the UK,
Gordon Brown made no more comment on the matter than if Erdogan had
been discussing his favorite television programs.
It is in keeping with that conspiracy of silence, that Cameron made
no mention of the thousands of political prisoners in Turkish jails,
there often for merely expressing an opinion at odds with the state,
for singing a folk song, or delivering an official speech in Kurdish.
Naturally Cameron did not think to raise the issue of Leyla Zana,
the first Kurdish woman elected to the Turkish parliament and a
winner of the Sakharov Prize, who is still in jail today. Cameron
could have at least raised the subject of Aysel Tugluk, a member of
the Turkish Human Rights Association, who was illegally stripped of
her parliamentary immunity and sent to jail for handing out leaflets
in the Kurdish language, and is now due to be sent to jail yet again.
But rather than standing up for human rights, Cameron instead pandered
to the radical Islamists who were his hosts, by feeding their appetite
for hate directed at Israel. And it did not begin or end with Israel.
Instead Cameron sold out the rest of Europe, declaring that he was
"angry" at how long the negotiations to bring Turkey into the EU were
taking, and declaring himself the "strongest possible advocate for EU
membership". He slammed France and implicitly Germany, for refusing
to rush forward to support bringing Turkey into the EU. Cameron sided
with Turkey, over France and Germany, betraying allies for enemies.
And worse was yet to come.
Not only did Cameron ignore Turkey's ongoing occupation of Cyprus,
but he signed a strategic agreement with Turkey that calls for ending
the "isolation" of the Turkish Cypriots by upholding their "right to
representation" in the European Parliament, and promoting political
and cultural contacts with the Turkish Cypriots. What that means is
that Cameron committed himself to supporting Dervis Eroglu from the
radical National Unity Party, which calls for Turkish annexation of
occupied Cyprus. The strategic agreement signed by Cameron, moves
the UK closer to recognizing the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, which
currently only Turkey itself recognizes.
Again Cameron makes no criticism whatsoever of Turkey's illegal
occupation of Cyprus. He does not mention the fact that he signed an
agreement promoting the flow of goods from occupied Cyprus to the UK,
while Turkey refuses to accept goods from Greek Cyprus. Of course not.
No more than his predecessor was willing to.
Did Cameron do any of this out of principle? Nonsense. Cameron knows as
well as anyone about Turkey's state of domestic terror, its persecution
of the political opposition, and how unworkable Turkish membership in
the EU would be. Instead like Brown before him, Cameron pandered to
the Turkish thug-in-chief for a few pounds, hoping to boost British
exports to Turkey. In the hope of a few million pounds, Cameron
betrayed fellow European nations, signed off on Turkey's occupation of
Cyprus, ignored the thousands of political prisoners in Turkish jails,
and whitewashed Turkey's real record on Islamic terrorism. And while
he and his businessmen friends beamed and shook hands with Turkey's
chief terrorist-- others were left to stand up against the violence
and brutality of the Turkish regime on their own.
In his rambling speech, Cameron praised Turkey for fighting against
terrorism. The reality however is that the only "terrorism" that
Turkey fights against, is Kurdish guerrillas, from its large Kurdish
minority who want to have their own state, or at least some basic
human rights. And when Cameron shook hands with Erdogan, he was
shaking hands with a man whose patron, Yassin Qadi, funneled millions
of dollars to Al Queda, and whose own advisor, Cuneyt Zapsu, donated
300,000 dollars to Al Queda. Al Queda operates its magazine freely
in Istanbul, which is convenient because Erdogan claims there's no
such thing as Islamic terrorism.
If Turkey, as Cameron says, is guarding the flank of Europe... then who
in G-d's name is guarding Europe from Turkey? Certainly not Cameron.
Cameron's despicable toadying to Turkey's Thug-in-Chief was one long
collection of lies. In his speech, he claimed that "Europe will draw
fresh vigour and purpose from a Turkey that embraces human rights
and democracy". Turkey's democracy is such that its opposition is
routinely jailed. Its human rights has sent 12 year olds to prison
for singing folk songs. It has no concept of democracy or human rights.
Its 10,000 political prisoners could testify to that. Almost a 1000
of them opposition politicians.
The sham continued as Cameron congratulated Turkey on "its efforts
to achieve the ambition of zero problems with all its neighbours,
including Iraq". This after Turkish troops repeatedly invaded Iraq
just just last month, murdering a 15 year old girl, among others. The
Iraqi government protested, to no effect. Cameron, who is supposed
to be committed to guaranteeing Iraq's security, instead shamelessly
praises the invaders. The only casualties he mentions are those of
the Turkish invading forces, not their victims. Never their victims.
And so it goes. Cameron babbles on about Turkey's religious tolerance,
while the level of hateful incitement spirals out of control. He
talks about the true tolerant Islam, to a man who was at one point
imprisoned for his own Islamic radicalism. He takes up arms against all
those damned obstructionists who are preventing a lovely regime like
Erdogan's Turkey from joining the EU. He vows to fight them everywhere,
like a latter day Churchill, proclaiming not, "There will always be
an England", but rather, "There will always be a Turkey in the EU".
If there was any Turk in that room who had the slightest respect for
England before Cameron began to speak, it was sure to have vanished
in a whiff of contempt. Cameron's speech reminds one of English
socialists visiting the Soviet Union and heaping praise on Stalin and
the wonderful revolution, before going off to collect their blood
money. And now Cameron has done them one better, demanding that a
radical Islamist regime share open borders with the EU.
In a speech given while Erdogan prepares to round up political
opponents before the election on fraudulent charges of "inciting"
Kurdish riots-- Cameron made only one criticism of human rights. Not
of Turkey of course. Or of Erdogan, who has jailed about as many of
his opponents as Saddam Hussein. No, Cameron courageously blasted
Israel, for standing up to Erdogan's IHH thugs, after they beat and
stabbed Israeli soldiers inspecting their flotilla carrying aid to
Hamas run Gaza.
Cameron blasted the response of Israeli soldiers who fired back after
they Turkish Islamist thugs tried to murder them, as "completely
unacceptable" and called Gaza, a "prison camp". He demanded a "swift,
transparent and rigorous" inquiry. No such demand was of course issued
to his hosts for their 10,000 political prisoners, their illegal
invasion of Iraq and murder of civilians-- or that Armenian genocide
matter. Of course no inquiries are demanded there.
Let us be clear what Cameron has done. He has sold out Europe and the
free world by signing on the dotted of an agreement which explicitly
trades English support for EU membership for increased exports. This
is about money, pure and simple. There are no principles of any
kind here. And what does Europe get out of all this? Here is a brief
preview of coming attractions;
It is mainly young people who take to the streets, with Turkish flags
in their hands, whistles in their mouths and hatred in their eyes.
"We have waited long enough," reads one poster. "Allah wants this war,"
is the message on another.
European tolerance Islamized Turkey. The pandering of unprincipled
leaders like Cameron will take it to the brink and beyond.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield is a columnist born in Israel and currently living
in New York City. He is a contributing editor at Family Security
Matters and writes a daily blog column on Islamic Terrorism, Israeli
and American politics and Europe's own clash of civilizations which
can be found at Sultanknish.blogspot.com.
From: A. Papazian
Daniel Greenfield
Eurasia Review
http://www.eurasiareview.com/201007296085/camerons-despicable-toadying-to-turkey.html
Thursday, 29 July 2010 11:29
It is sadly unsurprising that Prime Minister Cameron's highly
publicized trip to Turkey went with no mention of that country's
continued denial of the Armenian Genocide, and its suppression of
Kurdish and Armenian minorities. Indeed when Turkish leader Erdogan
discussed his threats of ethnically cleansing Armenians in the UK,
Gordon Brown made no more comment on the matter than if Erdogan had
been discussing his favorite television programs.
It is in keeping with that conspiracy of silence, that Cameron made
no mention of the thousands of political prisoners in Turkish jails,
there often for merely expressing an opinion at odds with the state,
for singing a folk song, or delivering an official speech in Kurdish.
Naturally Cameron did not think to raise the issue of Leyla Zana,
the first Kurdish woman elected to the Turkish parliament and a
winner of the Sakharov Prize, who is still in jail today. Cameron
could have at least raised the subject of Aysel Tugluk, a member of
the Turkish Human Rights Association, who was illegally stripped of
her parliamentary immunity and sent to jail for handing out leaflets
in the Kurdish language, and is now due to be sent to jail yet again.
But rather than standing up for human rights, Cameron instead pandered
to the radical Islamists who were his hosts, by feeding their appetite
for hate directed at Israel. And it did not begin or end with Israel.
Instead Cameron sold out the rest of Europe, declaring that he was
"angry" at how long the negotiations to bring Turkey into the EU were
taking, and declaring himself the "strongest possible advocate for EU
membership". He slammed France and implicitly Germany, for refusing
to rush forward to support bringing Turkey into the EU. Cameron sided
with Turkey, over France and Germany, betraying allies for enemies.
And worse was yet to come.
Not only did Cameron ignore Turkey's ongoing occupation of Cyprus,
but he signed a strategic agreement with Turkey that calls for ending
the "isolation" of the Turkish Cypriots by upholding their "right to
representation" in the European Parliament, and promoting political
and cultural contacts with the Turkish Cypriots. What that means is
that Cameron committed himself to supporting Dervis Eroglu from the
radical National Unity Party, which calls for Turkish annexation of
occupied Cyprus. The strategic agreement signed by Cameron, moves
the UK closer to recognizing the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, which
currently only Turkey itself recognizes.
Again Cameron makes no criticism whatsoever of Turkey's illegal
occupation of Cyprus. He does not mention the fact that he signed an
agreement promoting the flow of goods from occupied Cyprus to the UK,
while Turkey refuses to accept goods from Greek Cyprus. Of course not.
No more than his predecessor was willing to.
Did Cameron do any of this out of principle? Nonsense. Cameron knows as
well as anyone about Turkey's state of domestic terror, its persecution
of the political opposition, and how unworkable Turkish membership in
the EU would be. Instead like Brown before him, Cameron pandered to
the Turkish thug-in-chief for a few pounds, hoping to boost British
exports to Turkey. In the hope of a few million pounds, Cameron
betrayed fellow European nations, signed off on Turkey's occupation of
Cyprus, ignored the thousands of political prisoners in Turkish jails,
and whitewashed Turkey's real record on Islamic terrorism. And while
he and his businessmen friends beamed and shook hands with Turkey's
chief terrorist-- others were left to stand up against the violence
and brutality of the Turkish regime on their own.
In his rambling speech, Cameron praised Turkey for fighting against
terrorism. The reality however is that the only "terrorism" that
Turkey fights against, is Kurdish guerrillas, from its large Kurdish
minority who want to have their own state, or at least some basic
human rights. And when Cameron shook hands with Erdogan, he was
shaking hands with a man whose patron, Yassin Qadi, funneled millions
of dollars to Al Queda, and whose own advisor, Cuneyt Zapsu, donated
300,000 dollars to Al Queda. Al Queda operates its magazine freely
in Istanbul, which is convenient because Erdogan claims there's no
such thing as Islamic terrorism.
If Turkey, as Cameron says, is guarding the flank of Europe... then who
in G-d's name is guarding Europe from Turkey? Certainly not Cameron.
Cameron's despicable toadying to Turkey's Thug-in-Chief was one long
collection of lies. In his speech, he claimed that "Europe will draw
fresh vigour and purpose from a Turkey that embraces human rights
and democracy". Turkey's democracy is such that its opposition is
routinely jailed. Its human rights has sent 12 year olds to prison
for singing folk songs. It has no concept of democracy or human rights.
Its 10,000 political prisoners could testify to that. Almost a 1000
of them opposition politicians.
The sham continued as Cameron congratulated Turkey on "its efforts
to achieve the ambition of zero problems with all its neighbours,
including Iraq". This after Turkish troops repeatedly invaded Iraq
just just last month, murdering a 15 year old girl, among others. The
Iraqi government protested, to no effect. Cameron, who is supposed
to be committed to guaranteeing Iraq's security, instead shamelessly
praises the invaders. The only casualties he mentions are those of
the Turkish invading forces, not their victims. Never their victims.
And so it goes. Cameron babbles on about Turkey's religious tolerance,
while the level of hateful incitement spirals out of control. He
talks about the true tolerant Islam, to a man who was at one point
imprisoned for his own Islamic radicalism. He takes up arms against all
those damned obstructionists who are preventing a lovely regime like
Erdogan's Turkey from joining the EU. He vows to fight them everywhere,
like a latter day Churchill, proclaiming not, "There will always be
an England", but rather, "There will always be a Turkey in the EU".
If there was any Turk in that room who had the slightest respect for
England before Cameron began to speak, it was sure to have vanished
in a whiff of contempt. Cameron's speech reminds one of English
socialists visiting the Soviet Union and heaping praise on Stalin and
the wonderful revolution, before going off to collect their blood
money. And now Cameron has done them one better, demanding that a
radical Islamist regime share open borders with the EU.
In a speech given while Erdogan prepares to round up political
opponents before the election on fraudulent charges of "inciting"
Kurdish riots-- Cameron made only one criticism of human rights. Not
of Turkey of course. Or of Erdogan, who has jailed about as many of
his opponents as Saddam Hussein. No, Cameron courageously blasted
Israel, for standing up to Erdogan's IHH thugs, after they beat and
stabbed Israeli soldiers inspecting their flotilla carrying aid to
Hamas run Gaza.
Cameron blasted the response of Israeli soldiers who fired back after
they Turkish Islamist thugs tried to murder them, as "completely
unacceptable" and called Gaza, a "prison camp". He demanded a "swift,
transparent and rigorous" inquiry. No such demand was of course issued
to his hosts for their 10,000 political prisoners, their illegal
invasion of Iraq and murder of civilians-- or that Armenian genocide
matter. Of course no inquiries are demanded there.
Let us be clear what Cameron has done. He has sold out Europe and the
free world by signing on the dotted of an agreement which explicitly
trades English support for EU membership for increased exports. This
is about money, pure and simple. There are no principles of any
kind here. And what does Europe get out of all this? Here is a brief
preview of coming attractions;
It is mainly young people who take to the streets, with Turkish flags
in their hands, whistles in their mouths and hatred in their eyes.
"We have waited long enough," reads one poster. "Allah wants this war,"
is the message on another.
European tolerance Islamized Turkey. The pandering of unprincipled
leaders like Cameron will take it to the brink and beyond.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield is a columnist born in Israel and currently living
in New York City. He is a contributing editor at Family Security
Matters and writes a daily blog column on Islamic Terrorism, Israeli
and American politics and Europe's own clash of civilizations which
can be found at Sultanknish.blogspot.com.
From: A. Papazian