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LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF TURKEY
By Dr. Arash Irandoost
EuropeNews
http://europenews.dk/en/node/32707
June 7 2010
To: Pro-Islamic Turkish Neighbors and former friends From: Iranian
Pro Democracy-Anti IRI Activist Re: Erdogan
Ever since you decided to trade in the Secularism of Ataturk for the
Islamism of Erdogan, you also seem to have decided to forego your
willingness to coexist with non-Muslims on a peaceful basis. These
days all we ever seem to get from you, is video clips of your leader,
Prime Minister Erdogan, behaving erradically and barking like a dog
that its owner carelessly let off the leash. And if you don't know
that Erdogan's master lives in Riyadh, then you don't know very much
of what goes on in your own country.
But your affairs are your own. If you want to let a fanatic in a cheap
suit destroy Turkish nationalism in the name of You talk about stolen
land, when your entire country is stolen land, from Cyprus to Istanbul.
Islam, that's your business. But when he gets into business with
terrorist organizations that attack, rape and murder our mothers
and sisters (Iranian pro democracy women demonstrators), then it
becomes our business. And when a country that persecutes its Kurdish,
Assyrian and Armenian citizens, treat Iranian refugees like 3rd class
citizens and hands them over to IRI thugs at every opportunity, and
works tirelessly to appease a criminal regime, she must remember that
we will not forget her erroneous ways.
You say you want an international investigation into the flotilla
raid? Sure. Right after you allow an international investigation
into that minor matter of Armenian genocide that you've been ducking
for quite a while. As the new "standard bearer" in fighting for human
rights, I'm sure you will agree that it's only fair that Turkey should
undergo the same scrutiny it demands for other countries.
And then we can move on to the more than 10,000 political prisoners in
your jails. A number that at times has topped 100,000. An independent
investigation could also begin by looking into the torture and murder
of political activists such as Engin Ceber. They could meet with
representatives of TAYAD, the organization representing the families
of prisoners. And they would no doubt be fascinated by the more than
1500 children in your prisoners who are there on "terrorism" charges.
Like that 12 year old you arrested in 2008 for singing a Kurdish folk
song. So by all means wrap yourselves in the banner of "Human Rights"
and it will surely turn it into a noose and strangle you with it.
In Israel, Arabs are a legally recognized minority. Arabic is taught
in schools and used as a legally recognized language. Meanwhile
Kurdish identity is all but banned in Turkey and Iranian heritage and
nationalism is under attack by the Islamist invaders. Kurdish names,
folk songs and even the Kurdish language itself has been repressed.
Your regime has actually prosecuted and removed officials for
simply incorporating a Kurdish phrase into a greeting. You screech
self-righteously about the "Palestinian children"-- perhaps we should
talk about the hundreds of Kurdish children arrested for throwing
stones at protests. Arrested and charged with terrorism. Just more
of the thousands of political prisoners of oppressed minorities in
your prisons.
And perhaps next time your dog Erdogan gets up to bark up about human
rights and gets through lecturing us on the use of force against
Islamic terrorists, shall we discuss how many times you used jets
to bomb Kurdish rebels who were lightly armed at best. Including in
2008 when you invaded sovereign Iraqi soil in order to continue your
genocide of the Kurdish people in cooperation with criminal mullahs
of Iran.
You talk about stolen land, when your entire country is stolen land,
from Cyprus to Istanbul. Your regime is a racist illegitimate entity
based on the oppression of the Kurds, the Armenians, the Assyrians,
Iranians, and numerous others.
You went directly from being Imperialists to Fascists to Islamists,
a truly dubious achievement for any nation. Your history is filled
with slavery, ethnic cleansing, genocide and invasion. And that's just
in the last century alone. If you had any sanity or shame, you would
dig a hole, crawl into it, and hope that no one mentions words like
"Minority Rights" or "Territorial Legitimacy" in your presence, instead
of trying to use them as a club against Iranians and Israelis (Two
nations whose national history predates yours by thousands of years).
But let us get back to your precious Islamist flotilla, decorated
with Turkish flags that used to be more than just red versions of the
Saudi flag. That ship you filled up with Muslim Brotherhood members
and Islamist radicals bound for Gaza. Over in your wonderful nation
of boundless freedom, reporters have been put on trial for even
interviewing leaders of terrorist groups.
You sentenced the head of a Kurdish party to six months in prison for
calling the head of the PKK, Mr. Ocalan, instead of just Ocalan. He
joins the more than 800 Kurdish politicians you imprisoned in the
last year alone. And after all that you actually have the nerve to
pretend to be "outraged" when Israel intercepts your flotilla full
of political terrorists?
You blockaded Armenia for Sixteen Years.
But of course we know how strongly you feel about blockades. Like
the time you blockaded Armenia for Sixteen Years. Very well then. If
you insist on sending vessels flying the Turkish flag to aid Hamas,
perhaps Israel should begin sending tanks flying the Israeli flag
to aid the PKK. And when a new democratic Iran is established,
we surely will cut the flow of gas and oil to your arid, natural
resource starved and useless land.
We're not big fans of the PKK, but since you've decided to friend
Hamas and IRI murderers, then what's good for the turkey, just might
be good for the gander. Or perhaps for every boat flying the Turkish
flag that is sent to Gaza, Israel should donate a million to the
Iranian pro democracy movement and PKK. I wonder how along IRI could
last with direct financial help form Israel.
And then there's the Republic of Cyprus. They might benefit from
significantly upgraded air defenses. While the US insists on equalizing
weapons sales to Turkey and Greece, Israel just might have something
tastier to offer to one side. And the citizens of the Republic of
Cyprus might actually be able to sleep peacefully in their beds,
instead of being intimidated by savages showing off their F-16's over
their heads.
Oh I know, what you're going to say. This means war. But you
might want to reconsider. And what exactly was the last war you
won single-handedly? And no, bombing starving Kurdish rebels from
the air, or occupying Cyprus doesn't count. And how long could you
fight that war, before a domestic Kurdish insurgency overthrows your
little empire.
If that doesn't happen, you might want to think about the big Russian
bear at your back. The bear has been eyeing you for a long time now.
And with your military engaged in a disastrous war for the Great
Caliphate, your borders would be temptingly open. And who exactly
would bail you out then?
Oh I know you've made many great news friends, such as Ahmadinejad and
that fat king in the Arabian Desert, who tells your Erdogan when to
jump and how high., but if you think mullahs care about their Sunni
brethren, you've got another surprise coming. Meanwhile old Abdullah
in the desert can't even protect himself without the US Marines.
And if you think Obama would send them in to save your asses, you've
got another thing coming. I'm sure if there were Russian tanks headed
to Ankara, he'd make a vocal statement about it. And Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov would pretend not to laugh while hanging up
the phone.
There is of course the European Union. Last time Russia pulled that
trick, it was Britain that bailed you out in the Crimean War. But
these days Her M(N)ajesty's Empire isn't quite in the same shape it
used to be. Sure Cameron, Clegg and Harman will lick Erdogan's feet.
But none of them want to be the next Tony Blair either.
Germany doesn't like you very much anymore. Perhaps that time when
it got enmeshed in WW1 to protect your Ottoman Empire may have put
them off. Or your internal campaign of subversion exploiting Germany's
horde of Turkish laborers. What are you left with then? France, Italy
or perhaps Austria will forget that whole pesky Gates of Vienna thing
and this time ride to your rescue.
No, when Russian commandos are ripping off your wife's head scarf--
there will be no one left to save you. Not your newfound allies, or
Erdogan who will take the first plane to Riyadh, with as much of the
18 billion in gold and cash he stole from Iran as his sweaty hands
can shove into the pockets of his cheap suit. And just think of it,
as the Hagia Sophia church that you turned into a mosque, will become
a church again.
Istanbul will once again be Constantinople, which means a certain
catchy 20's song will require a rewrite. Of course it may not happen
exactly that way. But something close to it might happen. Erdogan's
plan to change Turkey into a Muslim country will not succeed if
alert pro democracy and secular Turks who have seen the human rights
violation under Islam in Iran, have something to say in the next
elections.
So when that day of reckoning comes, you will find that you have made
enemies of former allies such as pro democracy Iranians, Israel and
the US-- and that the new allies Erdogan has found for you in Islamic
Republic and Syria would prefer a Russian controlled Turkey, that has
no chance of ever reverting to a Kemalist government. And Erdogan's
godfather in Saudi Arabia commands oil money, not troops. And while
he might be willing to sink Turkey for the sake of Islam, perhaps
there are Turks who value their nation, more than Islamism. If not,
you can look forward to Erdogan "reforming" your country, until it has
the military might of Pakistan, the literacy level of Saudi Arabia and
the poverty rate of Egypt and rapist reputation of Iran's mullahs. It
is of course your choice.
People have the right to choose their destiny, for good or ill. And if
you find that this letter is filled with contempt, it is a contempt
fully merited by a regime that seeks to cloak its shameful betrayal
of a former allies in the guise of human rights, when it brutally
suppresses the rights of its own minorities. You may wish to go on
dancing to the tune being played by Erdogan, to sheet music composed in
Riyadh and Tehran. It is a very good tune. Filled with hate, violence
and religious fanaticism. That also is your choice. But know that
whatever you have was bought and paid by your ancestors who understood
that Turkey would either modernize out of the gutter of Islam, or
it would be washed away by the colonial tide. Your power does not
come from Islam, it comes from the bread crusts of civilization that
fall from the table of Europe and ineptitude of the corrupt mullahs
of Iran. Abandon them for the red hued madness of the Jihad, and you
will not rule over an empire, but over a wasteland. If you doubt that,
look to the south and to the east. Look to the desert.
You came from there once. And if you throw away your once secular
and democratic country for the fanatical madness of Islam-- you will
return there again.
Sincerely,
Your Secular Pro Democracy Iranian Former Friend
Dr. Arash Irandoost is a pro-democracy activist who advocates regime
change in Iran. He denounces those who have corrupted the religion
of Islam, make war with all free nations and intend to dominate the
world with their theocracy. Dr. Irandoost's work has been published
in numerous magazines around the world, as well as in hundreds of
Internet magazines, websites and blogs. He is also a researcher and
literary translator. He blogs at hakemiat-e-mardom. blogspot. com/
From: A. Papazian
By Dr. Arash Irandoost
EuropeNews
http://europenews.dk/en/node/32707
June 7 2010
To: Pro-Islamic Turkish Neighbors and former friends From: Iranian
Pro Democracy-Anti IRI Activist Re: Erdogan
Ever since you decided to trade in the Secularism of Ataturk for the
Islamism of Erdogan, you also seem to have decided to forego your
willingness to coexist with non-Muslims on a peaceful basis. These
days all we ever seem to get from you, is video clips of your leader,
Prime Minister Erdogan, behaving erradically and barking like a dog
that its owner carelessly let off the leash. And if you don't know
that Erdogan's master lives in Riyadh, then you don't know very much
of what goes on in your own country.
But your affairs are your own. If you want to let a fanatic in a cheap
suit destroy Turkish nationalism in the name of You talk about stolen
land, when your entire country is stolen land, from Cyprus to Istanbul.
Islam, that's your business. But when he gets into business with
terrorist organizations that attack, rape and murder our mothers
and sisters (Iranian pro democracy women demonstrators), then it
becomes our business. And when a country that persecutes its Kurdish,
Assyrian and Armenian citizens, treat Iranian refugees like 3rd class
citizens and hands them over to IRI thugs at every opportunity, and
works tirelessly to appease a criminal regime, she must remember that
we will not forget her erroneous ways.
You say you want an international investigation into the flotilla
raid? Sure. Right after you allow an international investigation
into that minor matter of Armenian genocide that you've been ducking
for quite a while. As the new "standard bearer" in fighting for human
rights, I'm sure you will agree that it's only fair that Turkey should
undergo the same scrutiny it demands for other countries.
And then we can move on to the more than 10,000 political prisoners in
your jails. A number that at times has topped 100,000. An independent
investigation could also begin by looking into the torture and murder
of political activists such as Engin Ceber. They could meet with
representatives of TAYAD, the organization representing the families
of prisoners. And they would no doubt be fascinated by the more than
1500 children in your prisoners who are there on "terrorism" charges.
Like that 12 year old you arrested in 2008 for singing a Kurdish folk
song. So by all means wrap yourselves in the banner of "Human Rights"
and it will surely turn it into a noose and strangle you with it.
In Israel, Arabs are a legally recognized minority. Arabic is taught
in schools and used as a legally recognized language. Meanwhile
Kurdish identity is all but banned in Turkey and Iranian heritage and
nationalism is under attack by the Islamist invaders. Kurdish names,
folk songs and even the Kurdish language itself has been repressed.
Your regime has actually prosecuted and removed officials for
simply incorporating a Kurdish phrase into a greeting. You screech
self-righteously about the "Palestinian children"-- perhaps we should
talk about the hundreds of Kurdish children arrested for throwing
stones at protests. Arrested and charged with terrorism. Just more
of the thousands of political prisoners of oppressed minorities in
your prisons.
And perhaps next time your dog Erdogan gets up to bark up about human
rights and gets through lecturing us on the use of force against
Islamic terrorists, shall we discuss how many times you used jets
to bomb Kurdish rebels who were lightly armed at best. Including in
2008 when you invaded sovereign Iraqi soil in order to continue your
genocide of the Kurdish people in cooperation with criminal mullahs
of Iran.
You talk about stolen land, when your entire country is stolen land,
from Cyprus to Istanbul. Your regime is a racist illegitimate entity
based on the oppression of the Kurds, the Armenians, the Assyrians,
Iranians, and numerous others.
You went directly from being Imperialists to Fascists to Islamists,
a truly dubious achievement for any nation. Your history is filled
with slavery, ethnic cleansing, genocide and invasion. And that's just
in the last century alone. If you had any sanity or shame, you would
dig a hole, crawl into it, and hope that no one mentions words like
"Minority Rights" or "Territorial Legitimacy" in your presence, instead
of trying to use them as a club against Iranians and Israelis (Two
nations whose national history predates yours by thousands of years).
But let us get back to your precious Islamist flotilla, decorated
with Turkish flags that used to be more than just red versions of the
Saudi flag. That ship you filled up with Muslim Brotherhood members
and Islamist radicals bound for Gaza. Over in your wonderful nation
of boundless freedom, reporters have been put on trial for even
interviewing leaders of terrorist groups.
You sentenced the head of a Kurdish party to six months in prison for
calling the head of the PKK, Mr. Ocalan, instead of just Ocalan. He
joins the more than 800 Kurdish politicians you imprisoned in the
last year alone. And after all that you actually have the nerve to
pretend to be "outraged" when Israel intercepts your flotilla full
of political terrorists?
You blockaded Armenia for Sixteen Years.
But of course we know how strongly you feel about blockades. Like
the time you blockaded Armenia for Sixteen Years. Very well then. If
you insist on sending vessels flying the Turkish flag to aid Hamas,
perhaps Israel should begin sending tanks flying the Israeli flag
to aid the PKK. And when a new democratic Iran is established,
we surely will cut the flow of gas and oil to your arid, natural
resource starved and useless land.
We're not big fans of the PKK, but since you've decided to friend
Hamas and IRI murderers, then what's good for the turkey, just might
be good for the gander. Or perhaps for every boat flying the Turkish
flag that is sent to Gaza, Israel should donate a million to the
Iranian pro democracy movement and PKK. I wonder how along IRI could
last with direct financial help form Israel.
And then there's the Republic of Cyprus. They might benefit from
significantly upgraded air defenses. While the US insists on equalizing
weapons sales to Turkey and Greece, Israel just might have something
tastier to offer to one side. And the citizens of the Republic of
Cyprus might actually be able to sleep peacefully in their beds,
instead of being intimidated by savages showing off their F-16's over
their heads.
Oh I know, what you're going to say. This means war. But you
might want to reconsider. And what exactly was the last war you
won single-handedly? And no, bombing starving Kurdish rebels from
the air, or occupying Cyprus doesn't count. And how long could you
fight that war, before a domestic Kurdish insurgency overthrows your
little empire.
If that doesn't happen, you might want to think about the big Russian
bear at your back. The bear has been eyeing you for a long time now.
And with your military engaged in a disastrous war for the Great
Caliphate, your borders would be temptingly open. And who exactly
would bail you out then?
Oh I know you've made many great news friends, such as Ahmadinejad and
that fat king in the Arabian Desert, who tells your Erdogan when to
jump and how high., but if you think mullahs care about their Sunni
brethren, you've got another surprise coming. Meanwhile old Abdullah
in the desert can't even protect himself without the US Marines.
And if you think Obama would send them in to save your asses, you've
got another thing coming. I'm sure if there were Russian tanks headed
to Ankara, he'd make a vocal statement about it. And Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov would pretend not to laugh while hanging up
the phone.
There is of course the European Union. Last time Russia pulled that
trick, it was Britain that bailed you out in the Crimean War. But
these days Her M(N)ajesty's Empire isn't quite in the same shape it
used to be. Sure Cameron, Clegg and Harman will lick Erdogan's feet.
But none of them want to be the next Tony Blair either.
Germany doesn't like you very much anymore. Perhaps that time when
it got enmeshed in WW1 to protect your Ottoman Empire may have put
them off. Or your internal campaign of subversion exploiting Germany's
horde of Turkish laborers. What are you left with then? France, Italy
or perhaps Austria will forget that whole pesky Gates of Vienna thing
and this time ride to your rescue.
No, when Russian commandos are ripping off your wife's head scarf--
there will be no one left to save you. Not your newfound allies, or
Erdogan who will take the first plane to Riyadh, with as much of the
18 billion in gold and cash he stole from Iran as his sweaty hands
can shove into the pockets of his cheap suit. And just think of it,
as the Hagia Sophia church that you turned into a mosque, will become
a church again.
Istanbul will once again be Constantinople, which means a certain
catchy 20's song will require a rewrite. Of course it may not happen
exactly that way. But something close to it might happen. Erdogan's
plan to change Turkey into a Muslim country will not succeed if
alert pro democracy and secular Turks who have seen the human rights
violation under Islam in Iran, have something to say in the next
elections.
So when that day of reckoning comes, you will find that you have made
enemies of former allies such as pro democracy Iranians, Israel and
the US-- and that the new allies Erdogan has found for you in Islamic
Republic and Syria would prefer a Russian controlled Turkey, that has
no chance of ever reverting to a Kemalist government. And Erdogan's
godfather in Saudi Arabia commands oil money, not troops. And while
he might be willing to sink Turkey for the sake of Islam, perhaps
there are Turks who value their nation, more than Islamism. If not,
you can look forward to Erdogan "reforming" your country, until it has
the military might of Pakistan, the literacy level of Saudi Arabia and
the poverty rate of Egypt and rapist reputation of Iran's mullahs. It
is of course your choice.
People have the right to choose their destiny, for good or ill. And if
you find that this letter is filled with contempt, it is a contempt
fully merited by a regime that seeks to cloak its shameful betrayal
of a former allies in the guise of human rights, when it brutally
suppresses the rights of its own minorities. You may wish to go on
dancing to the tune being played by Erdogan, to sheet music composed in
Riyadh and Tehran. It is a very good tune. Filled with hate, violence
and religious fanaticism. That also is your choice. But know that
whatever you have was bought and paid by your ancestors who understood
that Turkey would either modernize out of the gutter of Islam, or
it would be washed away by the colonial tide. Your power does not
come from Islam, it comes from the bread crusts of civilization that
fall from the table of Europe and ineptitude of the corrupt mullahs
of Iran. Abandon them for the red hued madness of the Jihad, and you
will not rule over an empire, but over a wasteland. If you doubt that,
look to the south and to the east. Look to the desert.
You came from there once. And if you throw away your once secular
and democratic country for the fanatical madness of Islam-- you will
return there again.
Sincerely,
Your Secular Pro Democracy Iranian Former Friend
Dr. Arash Irandoost is a pro-democracy activist who advocates regime
change in Iran. He denounces those who have corrupted the religion
of Islam, make war with all free nations and intend to dominate the
world with their theocracy. Dr. Irandoost's work has been published
in numerous magazines around the world, as well as in hundreds of
Internet magazines, websites and blogs. He is also a researcher and
literary translator. He blogs at hakemiat-e-mardom. blogspot. com/
From: A. Papazian