HDP files criminal complaint against Erdoğan, Davutoğlu

July 31, 2015 By administrator

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has filed a criminal complaint against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu for using their influence over judicial acts against its party officials.

“Prosecutors have launched operations that resulted in the detention and arrest of party officials after President Erdoğan’s and Prime Minister Davutoğlu’s statements that they had given instructions. As a result of these operations and according to the data provided to the Peoples’ Democratic Party, 1,033 have been detained and 125 of them have been arrested without concrete evidence since July 24,” the petition issued by the HDP read.

Recalling consecutive statements by Erdoğan and Davutoğlu against HDP co-chairpersons Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, the petition said these statements were directly influencing judicial independence and impartiality.

The petition said influencing the judiciary was a crime under article 277 of the Turkish Penal Code.

Source: hurriyetdailynews.com

Turkey’s Erdoğan says his only concern is Islam, takes jab at atheists

July 31, 2015 By administrator

Turkish President Recep Erdoğan has said his only concern is Islam, while slamming the defenders of terrorists and atheists in Turkey, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

“We have only one concern. It is Islam, Islam and Islam. It is impossible for us to accept the overshadowing of Islam. Islam is damaged from what is all being done now. We all have to show the will to categorically deny terrorism without looking at its basis or identity,” said Erdoğan in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta as part of a visit to the Far East and Southeast Asia.

Erdoğan also said some people in Turkey who belong to different sects even defended atheists and terrorists due to sectarian reasons.

“When it comes to speaking, they say ‘We are Muslims.’ But on the other hand, we see those who defend both terrorists and atheist organizations just because of that sectarian difference. Therefore, we have to be on alert against those people,” said Erdoğan.

Erdoğan also added Islam was at a turning point with sectarianism being the primary problem.

Turkey does not have a problem with different sects, but terrorist organizations attempt to take advantage of differences in sects under the guise of Islam, he said. In this regard, he named the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as a terrorist organization and said it was damaging Islam and the perception of Muslims in the world.

“The footage disclosed to the world by the hand of this organization greatly damages the perception of Islam and Muslims in the world. We all have to defy this as Turkey does. However, there are some dark powers spreading propaganda that Turkey supported this organization. Turkey has never been involved in that support,” Erdoğan said, adding that the actions of ISIL had no place in Islam.

Erdoğan also said the cost of Syrian refugees to Turkey had now exceeded 6 billion dollars, while criticizing the West over its failure to show as much sensibility as Turkey in terms of refugees.

“They [European nations] are even giving opportunities to refugees coming from the Aegean and Mediterranean to drown in the sea,” Erdoğan said.

Beijing: Erdoğan call Uighurs terrorism pledged to help china combat terrorism, draws barrage of criticism in Turkey

July 30, 2015 By administrator

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s use of the term “terrorism” in reference to Uighurs — an ethnic Turkic minority in western China — while in Beijing where he pledged to cooperate with the Chinese government to combat terrorism, including activities by the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), have drawn fierce criticism from the Turkish public as well as opposition lawmakers.
Erdoğan, according to a news report which appeared in the official Chinese news agency Xinhua, stressed that “the Turkish government sticks to the one-China policy, supports China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and opposes the terrorist activities of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) aimed at China.”
“The Turkish government firmly supports China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, opposes terrorist activities — such as those of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement — that target China and will protect the relationship from being “distracted,” Erdoğan said,” reported the China daily in another story covering the Turkish president’s visit.

For a leader who only years ago accused China of carrying out a “genocide” against Uighurs –Turkic people with whom Turks share cultural and religious bonds — this turnaround has seemed striking and unleashed a barrage of criticism in Turkey.

Source: ZAMAN

Erdogan is Pursuing his Self-Interests, Instead of Fighting ISIS Terrorists

July 29, 2015 By administrator

BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN

Last month, only after losing his party’s parliamentary majority, President Erdogan realized that there are dangerous terrorists in neighboring Syria who are a threat to Turkey’s security.

Ironically, these are the same terrorists that Ankara has been arming, assisting their infiltration into Syria, and having them treated in Turkish hospitals. It is estimated that as many as 25,000 foreign and 1,000 Turkish Jihadists have crossed Turkey’s border in recent years trying to topple Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.

Using the excuse that a Turkish soldier was killed by a shot fired from Syria last week, Erdogan ordered a series of bombing raids by land and air in Northern Syria and Iraq, as well as rounding up over 1,000 individuals in Turkey suspected of being Kurdish fighters, leftist militants, and ISIS followers.

After several years of reluctance, the Turkish government finally announced on July 24 that it would allow the United States to use one or more of its air bases to launch attacks on Jihadist groups in Syria.

Rather than fighting ISIS terrorists or cooperating with United States military operations in Syria and Iraq, Erdogan’s true intent is to consolidate his own hold on power and accomplish the following self-serving objectives:

1) Turkey’s President realizes that should his ruling party fail to form a coalition government, he would be obliged to call a new round of parliamentary elections. Therefore, by taking bold actions against ISIS and Kurdish fighters, Erdogan hopes that Turkish voters would give his party the few extra seats needed to regain a majority in Parliament.

2) Another important purpose for bombing Northern Syria and PKK bases in Iraq and arresting hundreds of Kurdish militants in Turkey is not fighting ISIS, but preventing Syrian, Iraqi and Turkish Kurds from joining hands to create an independent Kurdistan.

3) By carrying out military raids in Syria, Erdogan hopes to accomplish his long sought dream of toppling the Syrian government and installing a puppet regime, thus expanding his personal power as a neo-Ottoman Sultan.

4) Finally, by making brash declarations against ISIS and allowing Americans to use the Incirlik airbase, Turkey intends to convince the United States and Western Europe that it is a reliable NATO ally and loyal partner in the fight against terrorism. Creating such a positive image is particularly important at a time when the major powers are finalizing a nuclear agreement with Iran, which would increase the latter’s strategic role in the region and diminish that of Turkey.

By pursuing the foregoing four objectives, Erdogan is running the risk of destabilizing Turkey and neighboring states:

1) By attacking ISIS targets in Northern Syria, ostensibly in retaliation for the killed Turkish soldier, Ankara is breaking its secret understanding with ISIS to refrain from mutual attacks. ISIS is now compelled to hit back. Last week’s suicide attack in the Turkish town of Suruc, killing 32 persons and wounding over 100, is probably the precursor of such ISIS terror acts throughout Turkey.

2) Turkey broke last week the ceasefire agreement it had signed with the PKK in 2013, by bombing the latter’s bases in Northern Iraq and arresting hundreds of Kurdish militants in Turkey. The PKK has already retaliated by killing several Turkish policemen, and promising more bloodshed. Furthermore, by attacking Kurds in Syria and Iraq, Turkey would be weakening the only force that has successfully fought against ISIS. Since the United States views Kurdish fighters as its substitute troops on the ground, Turkish attacks against Kurds would undermine U.S. military objectives in the region.

3) Should Erdogan invade Northern Syria ostensibly to establish “a safety zone,” Turkish troops are likely to suffer many casualties, battling not only the Syrian army, but also heavily armed Kurdish fighters, and scores of rag-tag Jihadist groups. Turkey could also be confronted by Iranian troops coming to the aid of their Syrian ally and Hizbullah fighters from Lebanon who have been backing the Assad regime.

The Turkish President’s self-serving fake war against terrorism could have the tragic consequence of escalating the violence throughout Turkey and neighboring countries. If Ankara is truly interested in countering the Jihadists, it should have done that long ago, instead of arming and abetting ISIS and other terror groups. Turkish leaders are now going to reap what they sowed. They can only blame themselves!

Selahattin Demirtaş HDP defies Erdoğan, commits to request their own immunity be removed

July 28, 2015 By administrator

HDP to submit request to have their immunity removed in defiant stance against the interim government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who have accused party of maintaining ties with the armed and outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

In response to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urging the parliament to strip politicians with links to “terrorist groups” of their immunity from prosecution, implying the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş took to the cameras on Tuesday, vowing to take up Erdoğan on his word.

“If you are talking about immunity, we, together with our 80 parliamentarians, will submit a request to the parliament to have our immunity lifted. If you are not afraid let’s all together lift our immunities? Are you up for it?” stated the HDP co-chair directly addressing Erdoğan.

Erdoğan’s comments regarding the HDP had come days after the Turkish air force bombed camps in northern Iraq of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Turkey has so far detained over 1,000 suspects in counter-terror raids, the PKK, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and the leftist the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C), but has received criticism from the Kurdish politicians for not being sincere in its efforts against ISIL.

Demirtaş accuses Erdoğan of trying to wreak havoc to stir the country into an early election to have the interim Justice and Development Party (AK Party) win majority once again by eliminating the HDP.

“No matter what happens we will not cease our language of peace. They will attack us but we shall not fall into the trap. The path to their single party rule passes through the elimination of the HDP.”

Report July 28, 2015 | BGNNews.com | Istanbul

PARIS The Kurds condemn the murderous duplicity of Turkey

July 28, 2015 By administrator

Jean Eckian + photos

Since the suicide attack against the Kurdish community to Suruç, near the Syrian border, and the Turkish air strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurdo-Alevi diaspora and Yezidi multiplies mobilizations to denounce the duplicity of the Turkish state is in its -disante military intervention against Daech.

Monday, July 27 late in the afternoon, while Kobanî was the target of the Turkish Air Force in the morning, the Kurdish Democratic Council in France and Kurdish progressive organizations brought together nearly a hundred militants near the Turkish Embassy in Paris, “protected” by a CRS platoon to hammer again if it were, that the international community should not fall into the Turkish trap aimed only at eliminating the Kurdish fighters, sworn enemies of Daech the purpose to monopolize the region and take power. This was denounced in essence Berivan Akyol (CNDK), Ara Toranian (CFC), Dominique Adenot (PCF mayor of Champigny-sur-Marne) and representatives of the Kurds, Alevis, Yezidis and the Kabyle people.

The Kurdish Democratic Council in France demands the immediate cessation of the bombing of the Turkish Air Force on the Kurdish people, predicting a possible next fall of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It also calls on the international community to mobilize for any purpose to find a political solution to the crisis and restore peace.

Servan Varto, military leader of the PKK killed in Turkish bombing in northern Iraq

#Erdogan Kill more #Kurd last three Days than #ISIS did in A month #BoycottTurkishProduct

July 27, 2015 By administrator

How Erdogan foul the Kurd with Peace Process & now resumed the violent confrontation with the PKK

July 27, 2015 By administrator

The Arab Spring was the invention of Davutoglu the neo-ottoman project According to Mr. Davutoglu, the nation states established after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire are artificial creations and Turkey must now carve out its own Lebensraum — a phrase he uses unapologetically. Doing so would bring about the cultural and economic integration of the Islamic world, which Turkey would eventually lead. Turkey must either establish economic hegemony over the Caucasus, the Balkans and the Middle East, or remain a conflict-riven nation-state that risks falling apart.

Davutoglu predicted that the overthrown of Arab dictatorships would be replaced with Islamic regimes, thus creating a regional ‘Muslim Brotherhood belt’ under Turkey’s leadership.

Davutoglu, who has argued that Turkey should create an Islamic Union by abolishing borders,

Arab Spring where going on in the Arab world and Turkey where concern that the Kurd my take the opportunity to ask for independent, therefore to coming down the Kurd Erdogan/Davutoglu use Turkish MIT to secretly negotiated with jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and started the so called peace process. there was a reason why they called peace process because a process can be stopped and reversed.

Edrdogan wanted to become president needed Kurdish vote which even Iraqi Kurdish leader Barazani was campaign for Erdogan and it was successful.

Turkey wanted to get in EU the Kurd peace process was positive point.

So why Erdoğan resumed the violent confrontation with the PKK

The election of 2015 change everything because he was not expecting that the Kurdish party HDP will pass the threshold of 10% which they did and Erdogan lost the parliamentary majority that infuriated Erdogan.

The Kurd in Syria YPJ was and is having success in cleaning up the the Turkish allay Islamic State ISIS and the Kurds where making it very difficult for the Turks to supply ISIS with weapons and needed material.

Turkey needed the annexation of northern Syrian to destroy all evidence of Turkish link to Islamic state ISIS ISIL.

Davutoglu and Turkish MIT False Flag operations one failure after another prompted Erdogan to switch to military operation instate of MIT Turkish military intelligent.

#BoycottTurkishProduct

Turkish daily fires senior journalist over tweet blaming Erdogan over ISIL

July 23, 2015 By administrator

Kadri Gursel, journalist for the Turkish Milliyet daily, who has been fired over a tweet critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policy on ISIL.

A leading Turkish newspaper has sacked one of its most senior commentators over his tweet criticizing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies, which the journalist said, gave rise to the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group.

In a statement released on Thursday, the Milliyet daily said that Kadri Gursel had been fired because his remarks on his social media post were “incompatible” with the paper’s editorial policies.

In a tweet posted on Wednesday, Gursel accused Erdogan of being behind the rise of the ISIL, adding that it was shameful that world leaders were offering their condolences to him for a recent deadly bomb blast in the southern Turkish town of Suruc, reportedly claimed by the extremist terror group. “It’s embarrassing that foreign leaders call the person who is the number one cause of the IS (ISIL) terror in Turkey to present their condolences for Suruc,” Gursel said.

The July 20 explosion in Suruc, located near the Syrian border, killed 32 people and injured more than 100 people.

The explosion targeted people from the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, also known as the SGDF, who had gathered at a cultural center before their journey to Kobani, also called Ayn al-Arab, to help in the restructuring of the war-torn Syrian town.

The anti-Erdogan tweet came as Turkey has been criticized for clamping down on journalists and sentencing them to long prison terms.

Ankara has also been widely accused of supporting the Takfiri ISIL militants operating in Syria as part of a broader Western plot for the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Many media reports have recently revealed Ankara’s role in providing support to the terror groups active in Syria.

Last month, center-left Turkish daily Cumhuriyet released a video implicating the country’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) in assisting the notorious Takfiri group.

Erdogan said Cumhuriyet would pay a “heavy price” for publishing the video, prompting international media rights group Reports Without Borders to slam the Turkish leader for threatening journalists.

On June 12, Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman also revealed that Ankara allows ISIL terrorists to freely walk in the streets of the Akcakale border district in Sanliurfa.

We should worry more about Erdogan’s dangerous actions than his crazy stories

July 22, 2015 By administrator

By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has completely destroyed his credibility by making numerous bizarre claims in recent years.

For example, Erdogan told a group of Latin American Muslims visiting Istanbul last year that Muslim Pilgrims discovered America over 300 years before Christopher Columbus:

“It is alleged that the American continent was discovered by Columbus in 1492. In fact, Muslim sailors reached the American continent 314 years before Columbus in 1178. …In his memoirs, Christopher Columbus mentions the existence of a mosque atop a hill on the coast of Cuba. A mosque would look perfect on that hill today.”

When people around the world scoffed at the President’s unfounded assertion, Turkish reporter Oray Egin found out that Erdogan had completely misconstrued what Columbus had written in his memoirs comparing a mountaintop in Cuba to “a pretty mosque.” Turkey’s leader wrongly concluded that Columbus had seen a mosque built by Muslim sailors!

In one of many spoofs poking fun at Erdogan, someone sarcastically alleged that Astronaut Neil Armstrong wrote in his autobiography: “When we landed on the moon, we saw the ruins of a magnificent building. Buzz Aldrin and I were amazed as we approached the ruins. This was a small, elaborately-built Ottoman mosque. When we came back to earth, NASA and the American government ordered us not to talk about it.”

Such outlandish pronouncements attributed to the Turkish leader continue to pop up on the internet. Given Erdogan’s penchant for telling wacky stories, many people tend to believe anything they read about him.

Here is a recent example: “Ottomans were the first to reach the moon, says Turkish President,” wrote Barbara Johnson in the World News Daily Report. She quoted Erdogan saying: “It is alleged that the first man to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong in 1969. In fact, Muslim space explorers reached our satellite 334 years before that, in 1635. Everyone knows the story of the famous aviator, Lagari Hasan Celebi, the ‘Ottoman Rocket Man,’ who made the first successful manned rocket flight in 1633. What you might not know, is that he attempted to reach the moon two years later and could very well have succeeded.”

According to Turkish mythology, legendary Ottoman aviator Lagari Hasan Celebi launched in 1633 a 7-winged rocket using 140 lbs. of gunpowder. Before his flight, he reportedly proclaimed: “O my Sultan! Be blessed, I am going to talk to Jesus!” After his rocket landed in the sea, Celebi allegedly swam ashore and announced: “O my Sultan! Jesus sends his regards to you!”

Reporter Johnson continued her whimsical story: “Pres. Erdogan’s surprising claim generated some whispers and laughter from the audience, a reaction that clearly angered the Turkish politician. He slammed the skeptics for mocking his claims, adding that he would soon have the proofs to back his claims. ‘Why do you not believe it? Because you’ve never believed that a Muslim can do such a thing…. NASA may have destroyed most of the physical evidence of the Ottoman’s success during the Apollo 11 mission, but we’ll try to find any evidence that might have escaped the cover up.”

Of course, what Johnson wrote was not true. Erdogan never uttered those words. However, it is interesting that many Turks believed the fake story, and posted the following comments in reaction to Johnson’s article:
— Ali Emre Demir: “Unfortunately, he is our President.”
— Berkay: “The scary thing is, if you are living in that nation and witness all the things that man does, and see how many supporters he has. This is an embarrassment.”
— Deniz: “Poor, secular Turkish people! This Tayyip is the embarrassment of Turkey.”
— Huseyin: “You cannot imagine what we have been suffering. He is a solid tyrant…. He is a complete dishonor to us.”

Indeed, Erdogan is a big embarrassment to millions of Turks who are ashamed of him as their President. Unfortunately, the Turkish President’s actions are more ruthless than his words: He jails reporters, orders the shooting of civil rights activists, sues those who disagree with him, stashes away millions of dollars obtained by corrupt means, dismisses judges and law enforcement officials who refuse to carry out his illegal orders, and supports the infiltration of ISIS terrorists into Syria and Iraq.

The international community should worry more about Erdogan’s terrifying actions than his delirious ramblings!