[ April 19, 2024 ]
More Islam from Obama’s “most trusted” favorite foreign “ally”:
Anti-West Statements By Turkish President Erdogan And PM Davutoglu: Muslim Countries Must ‘Unite And Defeat The Successors Of Lawrence Of Arabia’; ‘No One Will Be Able To Stop’ The Rise Of Islam In Europe, MEMRI, February 9, 2015
On January 21, 2015, in a speech at a meeting of the Parliamentary Union of OIC Member States (PUIC) in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked the West, accusing it of plotting against the Islamic world and of causing Muslims to kill one another. Muslim blood is being shed, he said, urging Muslim countries to “unite and defeat the successors of Lawrence of Arabia who seek to disrupt the Middle East.” He also warned the West of the “great danger” of Islamophobia.[1]During a subsequent official visit to Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia, on which he was accompanied by a very large delegation of officials and businessmen, he repeatedly attacked the West, particularly the EU. Turkey was testing the EU, he said; “Are they against Islamophobia or not? If they are, they must accept Turkey. Otherwise, the EU will prove the claims that it is a Christian club.” He added that Turkey was not one to go to Europe’s door and beg to be allowed to enter.
Story continues below advertisementAt the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, as Turkey’s first prime ministerial-level participant since January 2009, when then-PM Erdogan stormed off the stage after shouting at Israeli President Shimon Peres that he “knows well how to kill children,” claimed that Islam is and will always be the indigenous religion of Europe, from Al-Andalus to the Ottoman states. He added that Europe feared the might of the new Turkey, and that Turkey is the “cure” for Europe’s ills.[2]
Following are excerpts from these speeches, and from media reports showing the increasing hostility of the Turkish AKP government’s policy towards the West:
Erdogan To OIC Members: “There Are Serious Plots Against The Islamic World”; “Turkey Can… Teach You [EU] A Lesson In Democracy”Also in his January 21 speech at the PUIC in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that serious plots and games against Islamic countries were being carried out by the West, and that they were having Muslims kill other Muslims.[3] “We must pay attention,” he said, “the blood being shed is Muslims’ blood. Those who kill and those who die are all Muslims. The unknown terrorists and we do not know whom they serve and whose pawns they are do not represent us in the Islamic world.”
As he had many times before, Erdogan complained that the UN Security Council had five permanent members, but no Muslim country among them. No one would allow the 56 Muslim countries to be represented, he said, and added that these countries must make this happen.
Urging the Muslim countries to warn the West of the dangerous consequences of their Islamophobia, he added that no freedom of speech can grant the right to disrespect the sacred values of others.
At the PUIC, Istanbul. Yeni Akit, January 21, 2015.
Erdogan In Djibouti: If Europe Is Against Islamophobia, It Must Accept Turkey Otherwise, It Will “Prove The Claims That The EU Is A Christian Club”
Erdogan’s second stop on his Africa visit, after Ethiopia, was Djibouti. At a joint press conference with his Djiboutian counterpart Ismail Omar Guelleh, Erdogan said:[4] “We are continuing the EU accession process. It is not important to us whether they accept us or not. In fact, we are testing Europe. Are they able to digest the membership of a state with a Muslim population? Are they against Islamophobia or not? If they are, they must accept Turkey. Otherwise, the EU will prove the claims that it is a Christian club.
“Turkey is a powerful country. If you [i.e. the EU] still see Turkey as a country that would beg at your door [to be allowed in] Turkey is not a country to beg. If we are accepted, we will join, and if not we will draw our own path.
“Turkey is a member of NATO, the OECD, and many other organizations. Why would the EU not accept us? This means they have another problem [i.e. Islamophobia].”
He also said again that serious games were being played against the Islamic world by the West, and told reporters that Turkey would build a mosque and a modern hospital in Djibouti, provide it with ambulances, and increase the number of Djibouti students studying in Turkey.
Erdogan’s remarks about Turkey’s EU membership came a week after he had criticized the EU, telling it to “keep your insights to yourselves” following its criticism of the media crackdown in Turkey.[5]
Also in January, the EU issued a statement along with its draft progress report for Turkey’s accession, which noted: “The rule of law and the respect for fundamental freedoms form the core of the EU negotiation process. In this respect, Turkey currently does not meet the expectations that we have for an EU candidate country. The concerns of the EP [European Parliament] focus on freedom of speech and the independence of the judiciary both essential components of an open democracy.” Immediately responding to this, Erdogan said on January 17: “Take the trouble to come to Turkey, so that Turkey can instead teach you a lesson in democracy.” He also said: “Those who try to advise us must understand that Turkey is no longer the old Turkey. We do not care whether you accept us or not.”
Turkish Deputy PM In Africa: Africans Are Now “Seeing A White Hand That Does Not Exploit, Enslave, Or Punch Them”
On January 25, 2015, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, who accompanied Erdogan on his Africa trip, said: “For the first time since the Ottomans left, Africans are seeing a white hand that does not exploit, enslave, or punch them in their heads a white hand that does not exploit their mines, eliminate their values, assimilate them, or see them as subhuman. They are [now] seeing the white hand of Turkey, who sees them as equals and as brothers. It is a kind of awakening for Africa. It may take a long time, but we are building heart-to-heart ties. We are trying to help the rebirth of these black-skinned but warm hearted people.”[6]
Erdogan Conducts Prayers At Somalia Mosque, Opens New Mogadishu Airport And Hospital
Erdogan called his last stop in Africa, in Somalia, a visit “solely to help brothers and to bring services, hospitals, mosques and roads to Somalia, not to exploit their resources.” Together with Somali President Hassan Sheik Mahmoud Adel Abdulle, he inaugurated a new airport terminal, a hospital, and a mosque with education facilities, that Turkey had built and that was named after Erdogan’s mother. He himself led prayers as muezzin at the new mosque.
He told reporters that THY (Turkish Airlines) would soon begin weekly flights to Mogadishu, and that within the next year or two, Turkey would build 10,000 homes in the city.[7]
Turkish PM Davutoglu In Switzerland: “I Kiss The Foreheads Of My Brothers Who Carried The Tekbir To Zurich”; “Islam Is Europe’s Indigenous Religion”; “Turkey Is The Cure For Europe”; “No One Will Be Able To Stop” The Rise Of Islam In EuropeWhile in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visited Zurich to speak to a large gathering of Turks living in Europe:[8] “I am saying this here from Zurich. Islam is Europe’s indigenous religion, and will continue to be so. Despite the roadblocks, prejudices and many provocations, Turkey will continue to walk on the road to EU membership. We will walk this road mainly for you [Turks in Europe]. Since you represent our culture, our traditions, our language and our religion here, and since we have brothers, [i.e.] the 45 million Muslims here [in Europe], Turkey will be part of Europe. We will never beg or make special requests; we will enter with honor, with our heads high. We will enter the EU with our language, our traditions, and our religion [Islam]. You live proudly with our culture in Europe. Would we ever sacrifice one iota of that culture? With Allah’s grace, we will never bow our heads. We are the grandchildren of the heroes who fought at Gallipoli, who never bowed their heads.
“In 2002, when we [AKP] came to power, they [the EU] said that Turkey was too poor, too weak a country, that would become a burden on Europe. Thank Allah, today Turkey is the rising power of the world, the presiding member of the G20. We want nothing from them. We reached this point with our sweat, and thanks to the taxes paid by our people, thanks to our moral and hardworking people. May Allah never make us need anything from anyone.
“And now the same [European] circles are saying that we are too strong to be accepted. So strong that we would change the character of Europe, and occupy one fourth of the European Parliament. I say from here now: ‘We are not a burden on Europe. Turkey is the cure for Europe!’ Turkey is the cure for their disease of racism. We are the cure to their economic slowdown, we are the cure to their loss of power.
“I again call this out from Zurich: Islam is Europe’s indigenous religion, and it will continue to be its indigenous religion. From Andalusia to the Ottomans, and, half a century ago with the holy march of our people who came here from every corner of Anatolia. The sound of the azan [Islamic call to prayer], brought by these heroes to Europe, the domes of the mosques with which they dotted this continent, will all be protected. We will continue to fight against all the hands that reach out to harm them [the mosques]. I kiss the foreheads of my brothers who carried the tekbir [i.e. the call “Allahu Akbar”] to Zurich. May Allah bless those who raised you. Blessed be those who came here with just a suitcase, in poverty, but with rich hearts filled with their faith [Islam]. How holy those people were, who came and sowed the seeds here, which will, with Allah’s help, continue to grow into a huge tree of justice in the center of Europe. No one will be able to stop this.”
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks in Zurich, Takvim, January 23, 2015.
Erdogan Criticizes Washington: “The U.S. Must Change Its Syria Policy, Not Turkey”Speaking to journalists on board his plane on his return from his Africa trip, President Erdogan vowed that Turkey would never change its policy on Syria, and proposed that the U.S. revise its own policies.[9]
On the Turkey-U.S. disagreements, he said: “Our position is well known. Our target is the Syrian regime. I made it clear to both U.S. President Obama and to Vice President Biden that three things must be resolved: the establishment of security zones inside Syria, the declaration of a no-fly zone, and the launch of a train-and-equip operation [for Syrian rebels].”
Criticizing the U.S. for no longer targeting the Assad regime, he said that the negative developments in Syria, particularly in the Aleppo region, would bring about what happened in Iraq “the birth of a ‘[Kurdish] northern Iraq.’ We don’t want a [Kurdish-ruled] ‘northern Syria.’ We will not accept this.”
He complained about the U.S. focus on the Iraqi town of Kobane, and noted the U.S. attempts to supply weapons to the Kurdish fighters there: “We told them not to drop these arms, that it would be a mistake. Despite our warnings, unfortunately, three cargo planes airdropped these weapons, and half of them went to ISIS. So who is feeding ISIS?”
Turkey Only Country To Not Sign EU Parliament Speakers’ Declaration Against AntisemitismAlso on January 27, 2015, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, following a roundtable discussion in Prague with 30 European countries’ parliamentary speakers, the Turkish delegation was the only one to refuse to sign the summary joint declaration calling for “zero tolerance for antisemitism.”[10]
The declaration stated, inter alia: “Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life include the distortion or denial of the Holocaust with the intention of hurting Jews around the world and the State of Israel. It is imperative that parliaments, governments, international organizations and civil societies around the world adopt a zero-tolerance policy towards these phenomena.”
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38 Comments
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9 years ago
Never, ever let them in the EU and boot these lunatics out of NATO. The Turks needed NATO to protect them from the Russians. To hell with them. Let the Russians have at ’em.
9 years ago
Yeah, why is Turkey still in NATO?! Oh yeah, obumbo, Why is the U.N. still in the United States, oh yeah, ogoatboy, Why is the United States still in the U.N. Oh yeah, oislamomoron.
9 years ago
Reply to
Commieobamie
As long as we still have a permanent seat on the security council and a veto it is in our best interest to stay in the UN.
9 years ago
The Europeans may not have their ‘Christian Club’ though the Muslims can have their own clubs, solely for Muslims. This must be Islamic logic uttered by Erdogan. What Ataturk built up Erdogan is building down. Well that is a typical Islamic mentality.
9 years ago
Reply to
IslamHater
“What Ataturk built up” is just old propaganda. Ataturk was involved in the Armenian genocide, as I recently found out to my surprise.
We need to ban Islam. I don’t know how, but we must. Otherwise Islam will eradicate our civilization.
9 years ago
In Britain, Cameron’s Tories, Labour Party and Lib Dems (along with much of trade unions and big business) are politically unswerving campaigners for the entry of 75 million plus Muslim Turks into the European Union. And, of course, the huge resources of the E.U bureaucracy in Brussels are put fully behind this campaign for Turkey’s entry too.
Whoever wins the UK Election in May, this policy will remain.
And the Islamization of Europe will be completed.
9 years ago
Reply to
tpellow
The dhimmi governments and corporations think they can control the Muslims. Faust thought he could make a deal with the Devil too.
9 years ago
And, of course, Obama campaigns for Islamizing Turkey’s entry into E.U. too.
9 years ago
On Islamic Turkey’s historical record in Africa under the Ottoman Empire-
“African slaves in the Ottoman Empire.”
(2014.)
9 years ago
Just one correction Mr. Erdogan: TURKEY IS NOT EUROPE – it is an Asian country. Read my lips, you ignorant: YOU ARE NOT PART OF EUROPE and hopefully you will never be in EU. Just the contrary – ancient Turkey was and archenemy of Greece, which IS IN EUROPE, actually Greece is preeminent Europe, a cradle of my Western world. Your country was one of the territories inhabited by peoples called by my ancestors barbaros. My ancestors were damn right …
9 years ago
“Turkey’s Bad Joke: Crocodile Tears for Victims of Holocaust”
by Burak Bekdil.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5181/turkey-holocaust-memorial
9 years ago
A strong America with a truly strong American leadership would stop the advance of these fanatical Moslem ape countries by dropping “hydrogen bombs” on all of their Governmental and military infrastructure. Turkey needs lots of pay back for what it did in the past. all of the Christian and Jewish genocide it committed against multiple millions. Turkey’s loud mouth dictators should be made to suffer and their country should be reduced to rubble,like Israel does to Hamas in Gaza, they should be greatly shamed and humiliated. and as for the western Political heads that keep allowing for fanatical Muslims to immigrate into western countries to cause chaos and unrest they should all be arrested and hanged. as war criminals. I’ll tell you this much even the Devil himself hates Islam, but he hates even more the fanatics allowing for the all of the immigration and chaos into the west. the Devil’s man the Beast the Antichrist will appear as a savior to the world he will oppose and fight these Muslims and bury them and the whole will wonder after and adore him, he will exalt himself and a new world philosphy which forbids fanatacism of all kinds.
9 years ago
Reply to
Pale Rider
It’s inevitable. The day after Islamists kidnapped the Israeli weight lifting team in 1972, Mecca should have been vaporized. Had we started then, we’d not have the problems of today. Now, we’re going to have to get very nasty.
9 years ago
Reply to
Pray Hard
How do you nuke Paris, London or Berlin?
They can’t touch us if they are in their own countries but they are in ours so what now?
9 years ago
Reply to
Peggy
each town, city, state, country must “handle” their own area (theater). We must develop “ammo tude”. Quietly, without attracting attention of the zombies & their allies(beggars ).Wisdom!!of the serpent, innocence of the dove.
9 years ago
Because they are a member of NATO. They are more like a spy than an ally.
9 years ago
Erdogan, just another Islamist vermin.
9 years ago
Thank God for western science and the advent of nukes. Long live Israel!
9 years ago
WW3 is on its way but the modern Chamberlains turn their blind eyes.
Let us hope that Russia, China, Japan etc can see islam for what it is.
“WE MAY NOT BE AT WAR WITH ISLAM BUT SURE AS HELL,
ISLAM IS AT WAR WITH US”
9 years ago
Reply to
Ayatolla Howmany
If Russia tried anything the US would respond in defence of Islam.
That’s why they want their own puppet in Ukraine. They want to be next to Russia so they can keep threatening it.
Russia is looking so much better now. At least Putin is not a Muslim and working with the Muslim Brotherhood.
9 years ago
What a bunch of buffoons. They have a point though. Cohesion is more important than ever in defeating the enemy. Just as Churchill allied with Stalin, the West will have to ally with Russia to combine forces and destroy this great cancer called islam.
9 years ago
Reply to
Alissa
Putin will need the help of the West agains Islam very soon. But he is a sort of the Christian equivalent of Erdogan. Not as mad as Erdogan, but very similar. The Communist mentality is rooted in a similar supremacist, righteous soil as Islam. As brilliantly explained by Nikolay Berdyaev in The Origin of Russian Communism, communists believe “people are too stupid, so you have to forcefully lead them to their happiness”.
9 years ago
Because those people are stupid Flower. They have never been our ally. I remember when I was in Pre-Com school in Charleston in 1960, there was a Turkish ship in port and the crew shared a barracks with us. You could smell these people everywhere in the building. I guess they didn’t believe in showers.
9 years ago
Bad thought … I know this isn’t a very politically correct thought but I get a perverse joy imagining nuclear bombs blowing up all over the middle east and maybe northern and Central Africa (why not); aimed only at the infested areas of course. Just little ones.
Turkey and this impertinent blowhard would simply disappear. *poof*
In all seriousness, Erdogan is stirring the muslim people to WW3. It would be in keeping with Turkey’s historical pattern of behaviour to rampage down the jihad path, destroying everything in it’s wake. Forever.
Islam lives it’s history. Part of the problem with it.
I just hope that Turks who are educated or at least not stupid see this for what it is and try to stop it w/o being jailed or killed.
Oh, and let’s get the Kurds some f-ing ammo without funnelling it through Baghdad; it tends to get … lost
Locked and loaded!
9 years ago
and get Turkey the hell out of NATO and (ha!) the EU. Thanks.
9 years ago
why is “Christian club” an insult, a Threat? I always say-“follow the money”! All the banks are in trouble & will do Whatever to save themselves.
9 years ago
It Will “Prove The Claims That The EU Is A Christian Club”
He doesn’t see the irony that he says that and yet Turkey belongs to the Organisation of Islamic Countries.
And yet Cameron, Obama and others in the West suck up to this Muslim in the Woodpile!!!
9 years ago
We dont need your third world country in the EU mr erdogan,so no JIZYA from us,jog on old boy
9 years ago
lll
9 years ago
OLD ARAB PROVERB: WHEN YOU OPEN TWO WINDOWS YOU CAN BE CAUGHT IN A DRAFT. IT WAS FOR HITLER AND THEY ARE IN SYRIA, LEBANON, EGYPT AND JORDAN, THEY LOST YEMEN THE LAST ARAB SPRING KHEDIVE THEY REJECTED THE MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD OR BY THEIR OTHER NAME AL’ QAEDA OR ISIS OR AS MANY OF THE SOPHOMORIC NAMES OF DISTRACTION THEY THINK ACTUALLY WORK IN ALL FAIRNESS IT HAS BUT THE GENOCIDE IS IRREVERSIBLY THEIR OWN TOGETHER WITH OBAMA, QATAR AND PAKISTAN’S NATIONAL LOGISTICS CELL THE TERRORIST HALLIBURTON THAT SUPPLIES ISIS AND THEIR ‘MODERATE REBEL’ COVER STORY RUNNING THIN AS WE SPEAK , THE “STALINGRAD MOMENT” WILL BE DECIDED AS THEY TRY TO REPLICATE THE OTTOMANS ONCE AGAIN. WHAT DOES LETHAL WEAPONS MEAN? TACTICAL NUCLEAR ORDNANCE DELIVERED THROUGH CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS OR W.M.D.’S TO BE BLAMED ON SYRIA AND RUSSIA?
9 years ago
After hearing just now the aunt of that young lady that was confirmed to have been killed breaking down, it proves more and more that Islam is from SATAN the devil himself.
9 years ago
The EU is a Christian club and Erdogan is quite correct. It does not need Islamic members.Turkey has a population of about 75 million, larger than UK and several other EU countires. Turkey in EU would mean we could not prevent millions of Turks from flooding into EU which would be a total disaster. Greece already stops many thousands of illegal Turkish migrants every year. Erdogan is obviously seeing himself as a new Ottaman Emperor and much like Gadafi before him buying friends in Africa.
He has been making increasingly erratic statements since becoming president. His ‘democracy’ has more journalists in custody than almost any other country.
9 years ago
Let us not forget this character is obama’s best friend. They share the muslim IQ.
9 years ago
Mutual dehumanisation is growing on both sides here. Erdogan speaks in demonising and divisive absolutes, such as ONLY Muslims are being killed, only Turkey knows real democracy, trust us Africa: we are the only whites who will not exploit you. This frightening rhetoric is used to create dissent against the West and portray Turkey as benevolent perpetual victims against the conspiring ruthless West. I fled Turkey ten years ago after enduring constant cheating and sexual harassment, a violent assault aimed at making me submit to Allah, witnessing the religious policing of Kurds and denial of service to Africans in cafes. If this is democratic and egalitarian may Allah help me. the President is favoured as a strong leader by a country where men win respect by bulldozing opposition. Guess we may be somewhat offended by alternative leadership styles, but I fear he speaks with forked tongue.
To her credit, Turkey is supporting millions of refugees from Syria and there may be a point that more aid for refugees and civilians is needed from the West rather than diverting attention into defense against potential terrorists. Turkey has a European and Asian side, and architecture and clothing are decidedly European. Turkey is part of Europe and extended well into Europe during the peak of the Turkish empire. They deserve our respect, but should be careful to return this sentiment and avoid alienating and antagonising other nations through unjustified attacks or by allowing leaders to make bold faced lies.
8 years ago
I would like to point out that it is for precisely this reason that the Western democracies poured so much money into Defense Department R&D programs in the decades after WWII. We had better be aware and ready.
