http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/turks/ en-us Mon, 5 Oct 2009 03:32:51 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354960/posts Bundesbank Official Under Police Investigation After Blasting Turks For 'Conquering Germany'A top official at the German Bundesbank is under police investigation after giving vent to a wild outburst against Berlin's Muslim population, resorting to language reminiscent of Nazi race theory. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Published: 6:29PM BST 04 Oct 2009 Dr Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the executive board and head of the bank's risk control operations, told Europe's culture magazine Lettre International that Turks with low IQs and poor child-rearing practices were "conquering Germany" by breeding two or three times as fast. "A large number of Arabs and Turks in... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354960/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 03:32:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2331166/posts Desmond Zammit Marmarà Thursday, 3rd September 2009 1565 As Malta celebrates the historically important victory of the Great Siege of 1565, it is worthwhile to ponder on some important points usually overshadowed by the purely military aspect of the Great Siege. The events of 1565 took place against a background of the clash between the Christian and the Islamic religions as well as the contemporary dissonance between Western and Eastern cultures. Few people, however, are aware that commerce played a very important part in the Turkish decision to attack Malta. Attacks on Turkish shipping by ships flying the flag of... timesofmalta.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2331166/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:17:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2324106/posts Protests rise as Turkish renovation work turns church into mosque Deutsche Presse-Agentur Aug 25, 2009, 10:22 GMT Istanbul - Restoration work that would result in an historic Greek Orthodox church being recognized as a mosque has caused uproar in Turkey, reported the daily Milliyet newspaper on Tuesday. At issue is the 178-year-old St Dimitrios church in the northern Turkish village of Silivri. The village was once a Greek settlement but, after the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, ethnic Greek residents had to leave in a forced resettlement that swapped 1.5 million ethnic Greeks from Turkey for 600,000 ethnic Turks living in... monstersandcritics.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2324106/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:17:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2316016/posts Aug 14, 2009 From church to mosque: IstanbulÂ’s forgotten Byzantine heritage Is it a church? Is it a mosque? Is it a museum? Aya Sofya (Hagia Sophia, the Church of Divine Wisdom) may be one of Ä°stanbul's most famous buildings, but it's also one that suffers from an acute identity crisis, having started life as the great sixth century church of the Emperor Justinian, before becoming a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and then a museum in 1935 after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk declared the Turkish Republic. Something similar happened to Chora, near Edirnekapı, which also kicked... todayszaman.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2316016/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:51:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241379/posts Moving quickly to release Chinese Uighur terrorists into the United States, Obama administration officials have -- for the second time -- overridden objections of federal agencies responsible for national security. The first time -- as I reported on April 20 -- the White House overrode the inter-agency panel it created from all the national security agencies to review all the cases of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners. That panel found that the seventeen Uighurs -- members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement captured at an al-Queda training camp in Pakistan -- were too dangerous to release in the United States. Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241379/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:32:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223376/posts ANKARA, Turkey – Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States "is not and will never be at war with Islam." Urging a greater partnership with the Islamic world in an address to the Turkish parliament, Obama called the country an important U.S. ally in many areas, ... "Let me say this as clearly as I can," Obama said. "The United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical ... in rolling back a fringe ideology that people... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223376/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:11:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095158/posts THE HAGUE, 02/10/08 - An organisation representing Turkish-Dutch parents claims that the Dutch government encourages youth crime by rewarding the perpetrators with clubhouses and subsidies. The more serious the crime level, the more generous the politicians become, it says. The Utrecht neighbourhood Kanaleneiland has become notorious in recent years for problems with young Moroccans, which led to a ban on forming groups in the area. The neighbourhood is also plagued by about 40 young Turkish troublemakers, the Turkish Parents Foundation (STO) says, but much more attention is paid to the Moroccans. STO chairman Halil Nalbantoglu said in newspaper De Pers... NIS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095158/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:04:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091060/posts Slavery still stalks the American consciousness, its wounds yet festering in many hearts. If Barack Obama were to set his mind to it, he could heal much of the damage this peculiar institution wrought on our national soul. This great and tragic error that must be given justice. Obama is the best person in the world who can recognize, remember and honor the deaths of 125 million and the enslavement of tens of millions of people. His unique qualifications can be found in his names. Until he was 20 years old, he went by the first name Barry. Then he... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091060/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:09:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073120/posts AN Islamic organisation warning of the return of an empire founded 700 years ago has hacked into the website of a Wollongong church and published disturbing images and messages. For several days, anyone who visited the website of Wollongong's Wesley Church was greeted by anti-war messages flanked by pictures of the Turkish flag, masked soldiers and an image of US President George W Bush with a cross over his face. While the text on the www.wollongongmission.unitingchurch.org.au website was not in English, other websites on the internet hacked by the same group, AdReNaLin, identified those responsible as "sons of the Ottoman... Illawarra Mercury http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073120/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:43:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021685/posts Furniture, windows smashed, three hospitalized in bloody attack blamed on ethnic hatred A mob rampaged through a west-end cafe in a bloody attack yesterday that sent three men to hospital. After the bloodshed, angry Kurds pointed the finger at their Turkish neighbours. "This attack is a well-organized hate crime against Kurds by racist people," said Metin Yesilcimer, who rushed to the scene as soon as he heard about the violence. Two men in their 40s and one in his 50s were taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries after a group of 20 to 25 armed men stoned Ankara Cafe... Edmonton Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021685/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 01:10:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972467/posts YEREVAN (Reuters) - Kosovo's independence will strengthen a bid by the Armenian-backed breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh to be recognized as a state, Armenia's prime minister Serzh Sarksyan told Reuters in an interview. Sarksyan drew a link between the Serbian province which will declare independence on Sunday and Nagorno-Karabakh, where ethnic Armenian separatists broke away from Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s but have failed to win international recognition. "We are getting a rather favorable position," said Sarksyan, front-runner in the February 19 Armenian presidential election. "Recognition of Kosovo's independence can be welcomed by us. "If countries recognize the independence... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972467/posts#comment Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:05:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947053/posts He asked them to stop smoking in Munich's subway station. They brutally beat up the 76- year-old pensioner. Last Thursday, the 20-year-old Turk Serkan A. and his Greek friend Spiridon L. admitted that they critically wounded the former schoolmaster Bruno N. and offended him by calling him: “Crap German.” When the victim was lying motionless on the floor, the two took the old man's rucksack and quickly fled. The victim suffered a triple fractured skull with dangerous brain bleeding. At first, his life was in jeopardy, but his physical condition is stable now. The motive: “Why was he so stupid... Turkish Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947053/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:34:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941306/posts If we can't stop the Turks from invading Iraq, at least we can control their target selection. That appears to be the strategy this morning, as the Turks moved in and hit at rebel bases within the autonomous Kurdish area in northern Iraq. The Bush administration has walked a tightrope for months on the increasing provocations of the PKK and the inevitable response: The United States is providing Turkey with real-time intelligence that has helped the Turkish military target a series of attacks this month against Kurdish separatists holed up in northern Iraq, including a large airstrike on Sunday, according... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941306/posts#comment Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:49:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920812/posts Kurdish fighters on Sunday freed eight Turkish troops in northern Iraq two weeks after capturing them in an ambush inside Turkey, a PKK spokesman said. The release came before Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets President Bush on Monday in Washington to discuss a possible offensive against the Kurdish group. A spokesman for the group holding the soldiers, the Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK, told The Associated Press that the eight were freed Sunday morning near the border between Turkey and the Kurdish region in Iraq's north. "The eight were freed this morning at 7:30 and handed over to... al Bawaba http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920812/posts#comment Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:46:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911774/posts BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's prime minister will hold emergency talks with his ministers Tuesday on the crisis with Turkey after the Turkish government asked for authority to launch cross-border raids against Kurdish separatists. In a statement issued by his office, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on Ankara to avoid "military solutions" to the situation sparked by recent attacks in Turkey by the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. ... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911774/posts#comment Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:40:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910630/posts ISTANBUL, Oct. 12 -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that he is prepared for a rupture in relations with the United States if his government launches an incursion into northern Iraq in search of Kurdish rebels. "If such an option is chosen, whatever its price, it will be paid," Erdogan said to reporters Friday after meeting with party leaders. "There could be pros and cons of such a decision, but what is important is our country's interests." Erdogan criticized the United States for warning against a Turkish attack in one of the few relatively stable regions of... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910630/posts#comment Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:53:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899234/posts ANKARA: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused Tuesday to rule out the possibility of military operations in northern Iraq to root out armed Kurdish separatist groups that he said had taken refuge in the border region. iht http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899234/posts#comment Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:50:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893841/posts THE FOILING OF AN Islamist terrorist plot this week in Germany is noteworthy for several reasons that may not have been obvious from the headlines. The first is the involvement of an ethnic Turk. On Tuesday, police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia seized three men identified as a Turk and two German converts to Islam (under German court rules, their full names were not released). While the activity of converts in terrorism is not new, the Turkish community in Germany has so far been free of the plague of religious extremism. Turkish and Kurdish immigrants to Germany and... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893841/posts#comment Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:04:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855752/posts Schoolboys in my native Hungary used to recite an old ditty. It conjured up emotions ossified in the seams of time. The Kings of Hungary Freedom Square, Budapest, Hungary Stork, stork, ciconia, What makes your foot bleed? A Turkish lad is slashing it A Magyar lad is mending it With a fife, a drum and a fiddle of reed.The wounded stork’s song was a fragment of tribal memory bobbing to the surface from the collective unconscious of a great historical hurt. It was a bitter lay, a denunciation of the Ottoman Empire, the Xanadu of imperial Islam. The Turks had... CERC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855752/posts#comment Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:53:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845824/posts ANKARA, Turkey - Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq early Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas who operate from bases there, Turkish security officials told The Associated Press. more at link. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845824/posts#comment Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:19:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823018/posts Armenians and their supporters gathered on the streets of Hollywood today to commemorate the 92nd anniversary of one of the first acts of genocide in the 20th century. "We are recalling the attack on the night of April 24, 1915, when, in Istanbul, the leaders of the Armenian community were executed," Haig Hovsepian, community relations director for Armenian National Committee of America Western Region, said this afternoon. Hovsepian described the act as the beginning of years of violence against the Armenian community by Turks. An estimated 1.2 million were killed between 1915 and 1918, the last days of the Ottoman... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823018/posts#comment Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:55:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821943/posts Talk about unfortunate timing: Just as European Union diplomats were bending over backwards (or were they just bending over?) to reassure Turkey that a proposal requiring member states to criminalize "publicly condoning, denying or grossly trivialising crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes" will not include the Armenian Genocide, a group of young Turkish nationalists savagely murdered three Christian employees of a bible publishing company in the name of Islam. One of the victims, German citizen Tilman Ekkehart Geske, who was 46, was buried April 20th at an Armenian cemetery in the town of Malatya, a hotbed of... The Stiletto http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821943/posts#comment Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:16:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817937/posts Hundreds of thousands of Turks took part in two days of protests hoping to persuade the Prime Minister against running for president, amid concerns that his election would put at risk the separation of religion and state in the predominantly Muslim country. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to decide this week whether to stand for president next month. Since his Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has roots in political Islam, has a substantial parliamentary majority, its candidate is assured of succeeding Ahmet Necdet Sezer, the President, who is a staunch secularist. Mr Erdogan, who has presided over strong economic... timesonline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817937/posts#comment Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:29:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817584/posts At 98, Anahid "Annie" Boghosian of Emerson still recalls details of the day her family was driven out of its village during the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923. Hagop Bahtiarian was 5 years old when police came to his home near Ankara, Turkey, in 1915 and said the mayor wanted to speak to his father. That would be the last time Bahtiarian saw him.  "My father went and never came back," the 97-year-old said on a recent afternoon at the Armenian Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Emerson. "It's impossible to forget. I [was] 5 years old, but my memory is... NorthJersey.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817584/posts#comment Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:41:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800018/posts Finally, an item in Reuters’ "Oddly Enough" category that truly is odd: It seems that the German government is training its Turkish citizens, the majority of whom are unskilled school dropouts, to make döner kebab: Clad in white overcoats and plastic gloves and caps, the students attend classes twice a week. They learn to cut meat properly, calculate how much meat to put on a skewer and how to avoid the spread of germs. Döner kebab now rivals sausages as the most popular fast food in Germany. Reuters reports that tens of thousands of people throughout Germany work in kebab... The Stiletto http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800018/posts#comment Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:43:57 GMT