Posted on 07/09/2013 5:42:58 AM PDT by SJackson
Not sated by his anti-Semitism, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has tried his hand at another form of blatant racism.
In comments made about Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the center-left and secular Republican Peoples Party (CHP), Erdoğan declared, “Kılıçdaroğlu is striving every bit he can to raise himself from the level of a black person to the level of a white man.”
The comments were made during a weekly meeting of his Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Commentary Magazine, which spotted the report in Turkey’s Gazeticiler online newspaper, notes that “President Obama has described Erdoğan as one of the few leaders with whom he has developed bonds of trust,” calling into question the US’s awareness of how Erdoğan speaks for domestic consumption.
Meanwhile, in keeping with the Turkish government’s anti-Semitic tone that has been on the rise since unrest began in the country May 28th, the website Al-Monitor reports that its coverage of the protests has earned it the label “subcontractor of the Zionist lobby” by Medyagundem, a website said to be under the control of Turkey’s state-run Sabah daily.
Medyagundem writes: “There is a website called Al-Monitor. It is a platform that translates news and comments from Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, Hebrew and Persian. Obviously, it is a costly operation. You can find local language articles in English on this site. Its selections of news and articles is meticulously made and is highly professional. Its main theme is the news and analysis that will serve the interests of Israel and the global Zionist network.”
“The site’s stated goal is to tell the Western world about the Middle East. They have only one condition while doing that. Works of anyone who is a sworn enemy of Islamists and conservative administrations and actors are translated immediately into English.”
“In addition to translations, they also have regular writers. Some of its Turkish writers are interesting. This team that complains about their own country to the West in an Islamophobic, Zionist media organ has not come together by coincidence.”
The author of the Al-Monitor article that addresses the accusation, Cengiz Candar, writes that a list of Turkish writers accompanying the Medyagundem article includes him, “someone known as one of the most critical writers against Israel for decades,” before broaching whether Erdogan’s administration has “lost its bearings and [is] heading in a McCarthyist direction.”
Obama’s Fave Islamist Prime Minister Says Liberal Wants to “Raise Himself from the Level of a Black Person to a White Man”
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On July 8, 2013 @ 8:11 pm In The Point | 2 Comments
In other news, Turkey, like the rest of the Muslim world is violently racist. (via Religion of Peace)
Turkey’s Islamist PM Erdogan has been described as one of the few leaders to win Obama’s trust. Obama named him as one of his five favorite world leaders.
Too bad Erdogan doesn’t exactly feel the same way.
Not sated by his anti-Semitism, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has tried his hand at another form of blatant racism.
In comments made about Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the center-left and secular Republican Peoples Party (CHP), Erdoğan declared, “Kılıçdaroğlu is striving every bit he can to raise himself from the level of a black person to the level of a white man.”
The comments were made during a weekly meeting of his Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Black people aren’t a hypothetical thing in Turkey. Turkey’s involvement in the slave trade has left large numbers of Afro-Turks throughout the country.
Between 1860 and 1890 roughly 10,000 African slaves came into the Ottoman Empire each year – in total about 250,000 people. And there was a constant demand for new slaves, because “once a slave always a slave” was not the rule in the Ottoman Empire: many slaves, or at least their children, were set free at some point.
Olpak grew up there, finished school and married a white Turkish woman, with whom he was together for 25 years until her family said “There should not be any inheritance left to the Arab.” Blacks are often called Arab in Turkish.
When US President Barack Obama visited Turkey in April 2009, the association asked for an official meeting. As Olpak explained: “It was clear to us that we would be very lucky to be given an appointment, but we were able to use his visit to bring attention to our cause.”
Obama didn’t have time to meet with the Afro-Turks. He was too busy hanging out with Erdogan.
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I wonder if the Nation of Islam (acknowledging that it’s not authentically Muslim) is aware of this?
From a Sunni Islamist I am not suprised - witness the Sudan today; or the Wahabi-Saudis final outlawing of slavery (officially), one hundred years after the end of the American civil war; or the Sunni-Islamist funding of terrorist militia groups all over “black” Africa, or many other examples.
Black Americans need to be taught how the “slave trade” in Africans was dominated by the Middle East and compliant blacks - individuals and tribes - in Africa, centuries before Europeans got into the dirty business.
In comments made about Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the center-left and secular Republican Peoples Party (CHP), Erdogan declared, "Kilicdaroglu is striving every bit he can to raise himself from the level of a black person to the level of a white man." ... Commentary Magazine, which spotted the report in Turkey's Gazeticiler online newspaper, notes that "President Obama has described Erdogan as one of the few leaders with whom he has developed bonds of trust," calling into question the US's awareness of how Erdogan speaks for domestic consumption.Now now, to be fair, Obama is tight with Erdogan because of their shared hatred of Jews, Christians, and the United States of America. He's less than half upset about these new racist comments.
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