tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32216152421869507992024-02-07T02:28:06.667-08:00Turkey, the North Korea of the MideastNikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-4366532879150566562017-05-29T01:12:00.000-07:002017-05-29T01:12:13.052-07:00Turkish Ultra-Nationalist Education Produces Soldier-StudentsThe Turkish anthropologist, <a href="http://socialdifference.columbia.edu/people/ay%C5%9Fe-g%C3%BCl-alt%C4%B1nay">Ayşe Gül Altınay</a>, is a good source on the militarist, virulent, Turkish education system. If anyone has interacted with the typical Turk in real life or online, one will wonder where their renowned fanaticism comes from. Well she partly answers it in her works. <br />
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<a href="http://bianet.org/english/education/33248-turk-soldier-muslim-the-ideal-student">Bianet: Turk-Soldier-Muslim: The Ideal Student</a></blockquote>
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<b>"The ideal student, according to the education system in Turkey, is
the student who looks at the world with a nationalist mentality, who
defines him or herself as 'a Turk' based on ethnicity, and who is a
soldier-student, ready to fight."</b></blockquote>
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Presenting a paper titled "Who is a good Turk?: The 'Ideal' student
according to Textbooks" at the "International Human Rights Education and
TextBook Research Symposium" held last weekend, Assistant Professor
Ayse Gul Altinay from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci
University, tackled this issue. </blockquote>
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Another important characteristic of the "ideal" Turkish student in
textbooks is being a "soldier-student." By extension, this ideal
student, or the first-class citizen is basically a man.</blockquote>
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Here, military service is defined as a cultural given and students
are told that they will not be of any good to themselves, their families
or their nation if they do not serve in the military. Under this
definition, military service is no longer a citizenship obligation for
male citizens. It is taken out of the political/legal framework, and is
used in a social and cultural framework, which defines a person's life,
and his relations with his family and environment.</blockquote>
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<b>The discourse about Turks being a "military-nation" underlies this
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<b>Almost all excerpts reflect a homogenous nation that represents a
"single race" and a single culture. Saying there are different "races"
within one nation is defined as "separatism."</b></blockquote>
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</b><b>The general view in these textbooks is that, the Turkish nation is a
homogenous nation with a single ethnicity. Thus the books ignore the
diversity in Turkey and see every kind of diversity as an element of
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<a href="http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/altinay/su_yayinlar-2/">Ayşe Gül Altınay</a> went on to produce a related book that deals with this subject further:<br />
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<b>In Turkey, the mandatory military course taught in high schools by
military officers remains one of the most significant sites where the
interdependencies between education and defense are established and
naturalized. Taught under different names in different periods (Military
Service, Preparation for Military Service, National Defense Knowledge,
and National Security Knowledge), the military course has been in the
curriculum of high schools since 1926. Currently, it is called National
Security Knowledge and is mandatory for all students (male and female)
in the second year of high school</b>, regardless of the kind of school. ...</blockquote>
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<b>The most important continuity is that the course has been taught by
military officers (or retired officers) who get paid by the Ministry of
National Education or the school that employs them. However, neither the
Ministry nor the schools have any say in the choice of these
officer-teachers.</b> The officer-teachers are appointed by the highest
commander of the nearest garrison on an annual basis. ... <b>Their
qualification for teaching this course is defined solely in military
terms: the most preferred category is that of staff officers (Staff
Colonels, Majors, and Captains), followed by other officers ranked
militarily.</b>[5] ...</blockquote>
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Here is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFWoCAbi1DA">Youtube video, Neden Hedef Türkiye(48:51)</a>, that was shown to Turkish students in those classes that teaches them to suspect neighboring countries and minorities. If anyone knows Turkish and is willing to translate please translate any section you wish in the comments. <br />
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<br />Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-54952771293701925852017-04-30T20:08:00.002-07:002017-04-30T20:08:45.964-07:00Turkish Journalist On Who Really Burnt Down Smyrna/Izmir in 1922A Ottoman-Turkish journalist and contemporary eye-witness, Falih Rifki Atay, on who really burnt down Smyrna/Izmir on September 13th, 1922: <br />
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AFTER THE VICTORY<br /><br />Because I have decided to write the truth about
what I know, I will quote a page from the notes I made at that time:
The looters too helped the fire expand. One of the things I regret the
most [is]; an officer who went to loot a photograph’s shop left pictures
he had taken during the entire offensive wars at the hotel, [leading
to] the burning and loss of these historical documents. <b>Why were we
burning Izmir? Were we fearing that we wouldn’t be rid of the minorities
[the non-Muslim communities in Turkey] if we left the mansions, hotels
and casinos [cafés, bars etc.] to stand? At the time of the 1st World
War, when Armenians were deported, we burnt down any and every habitable
neighbourhood and quarter of cities and towns in Anatolia with the same
fear. There is no thing which will not come from this driest of dry [in
e.g. purest of pure] feelings of [wishes of] destruction. In this there
is also the effect of a sense of inferiority complex. It was surely in
our fate not to be [a place] resembling a piece of Europe in every
corner, as if (sic) being Christian or foreigner. If there had been
another war [and] if we’d been defeated; would leaving Izmir in ruin be
sufficient in protecting the city’s Turkishness?</b> If it hadn’t been
for Nureddin Pasha, whom I came to know as a dark fanatic, raging
demogogue, I don’t believe the continuation of this tragedy would have
been possible till the end. Nureddin Pasha was without any doubt
strengthened by the feelings of rancor and revenge harboured by the
arriving officers and people who had witnessed the ruins of Turkish
towns burnt down to coal by the Greeks and the crying and agitated
populace of these, [even] before [the time of] Afyon. Likewise, after
the victory at Izmir, a Nureddin Pasha issue will arise (sic). This man,
with the smallest share in the victory, as soon as he entered Izmir,
printed a personal card reading "Besieger of Küt-al-Amara, winner of the
Afyon war and conqueror of İzmir." And the first man he met [in e.g.
held a meeting with] in Izmir was the mufti [or “mullah”]. Nureddin
Pasha left a declaration for himself [saying]: at his death a mosque the
size of Kordon [quarter in Izmir] and his tomb were to be built. The
Conqueror was to be buried in this tomb. The Mufti, was little after
going to present this bearded and majestic [in e.g. grand] leader to the
whole of Turkey’s religious fanatics in through [one of] his
booklet[s]. And when he went from Izmir to Izmit, at the time of his
meeting with commanding officers:<br />- I came again, said the man not commenting [in e.g. giving oppinion] on the war: <br />- I came prepared to walk over Mesta-Karasu, [but] I’ve been held here, he was to say.<br /><br /><b>Atay, Falih Rifki. <u>Cankaya</u> (1969) p. 325.</b></blockquote>
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ZAFER SONRASI<br />325<br />Bildiklerimin doğrusunu yazmaya karar verdiğim
için o zamanki notlarımdan bir sayfayı buraya aktarmak istiyorum:
«Yağmacılar da ateşin büyümesine yardım ettiler. En çok esef ettiğim
şeylerden biri. bir fotoğrafçı dükkânıni yağmaya giden subay, bütün
taarruz harbleri boyunca çekmiş olduğu filmleri otelde bıraktığı için.
bu tarihi vesikaların yanıp gitmesi olmuştur. İzmir'i niçin yakıyorduk?
Kordon konaklan, oteller ve gazinolar kalırsa, azınlıklardan
kurtulamıyacagımızdan mı korkuyorduk? Birinci Dünya Harbinde Ermeniler
tehcir olunduğu vakit. Anadolu şehir ve kasabalarının oturulabilir ne
kadar mahalle ve semtleri varsa, gene bu korku ile yakmıştık. Bu kuru
kuruya tahripçilik hissinden gelme bir şey değildir. Bunda bir aşağılık
duygusunun da etkisi var. Bir Avrupa parçasına benzeyen her köşe. sanki
hıristiyan veya yabancı olmak, mutlak bizim olmamak kaderinde idi. Bir
harb daha olsa da yenilmiş olsak, izmir'i arsalar halinde bırakmış
olmak, şehrin Türklüğünü korumaya kâfi gelecek miydi? Koyu bir
mutaassıp, öfkelendirici bir demagog olarak tanımış olduğum Nureddin
Paşa olmasaydı, bu facianın sonuna kadar devam etmiyeceğini sanıyorum.
Nureddin Paşa, tâ Afyon'dan beri Yunanlıların yakıp kül ettiği Türk
kasabalarının enkazını ve ağlayıp çırpınan halkını görerek gelen
subayların ve neferlerin affetmez hınç ve intikam hislerinden de
şüphesiz kuvvet almakta idi.»<br />Nitekim İzmir zaferinin hemen
arkasından bir Nureddin Paşa meselesi çıkacaktır. Zaferin bu en küçük
hisseli adamı izmir'e girer girmez şöyle bir vizita kartı bastırmıştı:
«Küt-ül-Amare muha-sırı, Afyon ve Dumlupınar muharebeleri gaalibi, İzmir
fâtihi Nureddin Paşa.>> Izmir'de ilk buluştuğu adam da müftü idi.
Nureddin Paşa kendisine bir vasiyetname bırakıyordu: ölünce Kordon
bo-yuna bir camii, bir de türbesi yapılacaktı. Fâtih bu türbeye
gömülecekti. Müftü, bir risalesi ile. biraz sonra irticaın bu sakallı ve
azametli liderini bütün Türkiye yobazlarına takdim ettirmek üzere idi.
İzmir'den İzmit'e gittiği zaman da, Çay'da komutanlara danışıldığı
zaman:<br />— Yeni geldim, diye taarruz hakkında oy vermiyen bu adam :<br />— Ben Mesta-Karasu üstüne yürümek için hazırlanmıştım, beni burada tuttular, diyecekti.<br />***<br />Yakup Kadri, ben ve Asım Us, Bornova'da bir İngiliz evine yerleştik. Bornova karargâhların bulunduğu yer olduğu İçin. her gün</blockquote>
Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-43077948281118930572016-11-11T09:38:00.003-08:002017-07-19T05:33:13.766-07:00Turks cannot be imperialist, it is loving domination! Anyone who has had the misfortune to interact with Turks on the net will have discovered that according to almost all of them the Turkish state, the Ottoman Empire, that Turks -- cannot be guilty of imperialism. There has to be a reason, they all did not independently arrive at that mythos. Recently during a speech mourning the anniversary of the long deceased Mustafa Kemal, the dictatorial, founder of modern Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated: <br />
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"Today, visit anywhere in Syria, Iraq, North Africa, the Middle East or the Balkans, and ask the people there their opinions of Turkey, and you will see no one mentions colony, invasion, oppression or massacres alongside Turkey," Erdogan said.</blockquote>
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"Instead, you hear the symbolic call, 'Truehearted Turks here again!’" the president said, adding that Turkish people accept all people living in the same land as brothers and sisters without any discrimination based on religion or race. </blockquote>
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<a href="http://aa.com.tr/en/politics/no-country-thinks-of-turks-as-invaders-erdogan/682932">Anadolu News Agency: No country thinks of Turks as invaders: Erdogan</a> 11/10/16</blockquote>
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It is well known that Erdogan doesn't know a foreign language and is not as educated one would expect the leader of such an influential country to be. It would likely take well over a thousand contact hours for a Turk to learn a Western language like English. Since he doesn't know a foreign language, he doesn't have the intelligence or exposure to outside cultures necessary to know how unacceptable it would be seen outside Turkey needed to hide this hypocritical nationalist mythos of <i>non-imperial, imperialist Turks</i>, to foreign audiences. If Erdogan was astute he would not have referenced North Africa, the Balkans, the Mideast so directly because that almost guaranteed that the countries of those regions that were ex-Ottoman states, will cover that ultra-nationalist fascist comment and give Turkey yet another media black eye in the region. This is nothing new in Turkey, even before Erdogan there was the myth that Turks cannot possibly be imperialist, this is a mythos Erdogan simply grew up and inherited.<br />
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This is an excerpt from an old Turkish schoolbook from 1977, translated by David Davidian[1] and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090822212702/http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1131/turkish_education.html">archived on a now defunct Geocities page:</a><br />
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The want to dominate is an instinct. It exists in a human as an unconscious force. This instinct at the same time is a means to exploit. The inclination of some nations to exploit in this manner is because they lack "pride of prince (bey)" that exists among the Turks. The "pride of prince" is not only a simple psychological state for an opportunity to brag. Its main characteristic is protecting (those under one's domination) without expecting anything in return. The foundation of this is loving the people under one's domination.</blockquote>
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[2] _Tarih Lise I, Ibrahim Kafesoglu, Altan Deliorman, 1977 Ikinci Basilis, Milli Egitim Bakanligi, page 238.</blockquote>
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Hukmetme istegi aslinda bir ic-gududur. Her insanda suur-alti bir kuvvet olarak yasar. Bu ic-gudu ayni zamanda baskalarini somurmek icin bir vasitadir. Bazi milletlerin bu yolla istsmarciliga yonelmesi Turklerde mevcut olan "bey gururun"nun onlarda eksik olmasindandir. Beylik gururu, sadece ogunme vesilesi olan basit bir psikoloji degildir. Asli ozelligi, karsilik beklemeden koruyucu olmasidir. Bunun temeli de, hukum altina alinmis insanlari sevmektir.</blockquote>
This fascist mentality, that the want to dominate is universal and that Turks cannot exploit others who they rule is far older than the 1970's. Ziya Gökalp, who like most celebrated Turkish nationalist theorists was a non-Turk, since based on where he was born was likely a Kurd, yet he maintained he was a Turk, wrote much the same much earlier. He died in 1924, so the following summary by the Israeli scholar Uriel Heyd had to refer to material written before then:<br />
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The ancient Turks were, according to Gokalp, distinguished by a multitude of excellent qualities: open-handed hospitality, modesty, faithfulness, courage, uprightness and so forth. Especially praiseworthy was their attitude to the peoples subdued by them. Strong as their love was for their own people, remarks Gokalp with astonishing naivete, they did not oppress other nations. Their God was a god, of peace and the whole object of their rulers was to establish a regime of peace. Devoid of all imperialistic ambitions, the great Turkish conquerors in ancient times only sought to unite other Turkish tribes only. </blockquote>
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So now you know part of the reason why most Turks cannot imagine that Turkish imperialism exists today or has ever existed in the past. Don't let the fake secular, Turkish hucksters convince you that this mythos was invented recently by Tayyip Edrdogan and that Kemalists are somehow different. <br />
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[1] A very educated and informed Armenian-American that knows Turkish and who used to debate Turkish ultra-nationalists and genocide denialists on usenet back way back in the 1980's and early 1990's when it is was populated mostly by university students posting under their real names. Now you can read his erudite comments on Armenia, Turkish-Armenian relations on <a href="https://disqus.com/by/DavidDavidian/">his public Disqus comment profile.</a><br />
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Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-89315165636721784172014-01-22T09:48:00.000-08:002014-02-04T18:29:56.770-08:00Turkey, the lowest figures out of the OECD nations in educational attainmentTurkey has the lowest figures in the OECD for education attainment. In 2009, the last figures available, only 18.3% finished upper secondary schooling(high school).[1] Further, the population of Turkey that is totally illiterate, is roughly the size of Denmark's population at 5.6 million.[2] In addition to all that, according to a poll almost 70% of Turks said they never read a book in their whole lives and 9 out of 10 never took a single holiday abroad(meaning they are poor, provincial and ignorant)![3] Adding to their humilitation, 10 million Greeks publish almost twice as many new title books every year, compared to 74+ million Turk-rab-Kurds of Turkey.[4] Worst of all, 21.1% of Turks nationally are inbred retards![5]<br />
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[1.http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education-attainment_5kg22xq5cfxp.pdf?contentType=&itemId=/content/chapter/factbook-2011-85-en&containerItemId=/content/serial/18147364&accessItemIds=&mimeType=application/pdf <br />
[2.] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/23/turks-xenophobic-conservative-poll<br />
[4.] Coming soon<br />
[5.] Pubmed.gov: Consanguineous marriage in Turkey and its impact on fertility and mortality: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7864588<br />
Though better to cite the previous blog post<br />
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7 years of education only in Turkey:<br />
http://istanbulnotes.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/learning-not-to-trust-the-oecd-on-turkish-education/<br />
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The Young Lack Human Capital:<br />
http://betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr/en/archives/1041<br />
The data from the Household Labor Force Survey 2009, released by TurkStat, show that only 50.4 percent of young women and 57.1 percent of young men are enrolled in school.<br />
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<br />Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-46534319174063628672013-09-24T19:25:00.002-07:002013-09-24T22:49:04.092-07:0025% Of Children Are Poor<a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/05/turks-most-jingoist-chauvinist-and.html">Turks love to bluster about their country</a>, the reality is that despite the alleged AKP economic miracle, Turkey and Turks are still desperately poor. <br />
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<a href="http://betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ResearchBrief147.pdf">Bahcesehir University Center for Economic and Social Research (Betam): ONE IN EVERY FOUR CHILDREN IS POOR (PDF)</a></blockquote>
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<b>We use[d] the Survey of Income and Living Conditions 2006 and 2010 to study material deprivation, as measured by access to basic needs of nutrition, heating and clothing, of children between the ages of 0 and 15. The variables used are the ability to “eat meat, chicken or fish every other day”, “keep home adequately warm” and “afford new (not second-hand) clothes” respectively. Children who live in households that do not have the ability to meet any of these basic needs are defined to be poor children. According to this definition, 4.6 million children, i.e. one in every four children, are materially deprived</b> (Table 1).</blockquote>
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When we look at the basic needs separately, <b>we see that 40.3 percent of all children who live in Turkey live in households that cannot keep their homes adequately warm and 40.8 percent of children cannot afford new clothes. 12.5 million children are not able to consume meat, chicken or fish every other day, i.e. their nutritional needs are not met.</b> Given that two out of three children do not have access to main sources of protein, we can conclude that these children cannot have a healthy diet.</blockquote>
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There have been significant improvements from 2006 to 2010. Share of materially deprived children decreased from 34.7 percent to 24.4 percent. Looking at the components of material deprivation, it is clear that the improvement stems from the clothing item. The share of children who cannot afford new clothes fell from 60.2 percent to 40.8 percent. One can guess that this striking improvement is a result of the decrease in the relative price of textiles. There has been some improvement in heating and in nutrition, albeit smaller.</blockquote>
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Data points to stark regional differences. ... An overview reveals that child poverty deepens as we move from the western to the eastern regions. ...</blockquote>
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<b>One in every three children is materially deprived in East Black Sea and Northeast Anatolia. However, child poverty is more widespread in Southeast Anatolia. 42.1 percent of children who live in Southeast Anatolia are materially deprived.</b> To reiterate, 1 million 200 thousand children in Southeast Anatolia cannot meet their basic needs as measured by nutrition, heating and clothing.</blockquote>
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... <b>66.9 percent of </b><b>children living in Turkey cannot eat meat, chicken or fish every other day. Even in the most privileged </b><b>regions, such as Istanbul (57.4 percent) and Central Anatolia (55.6 percent), more than half of the </b><b>children cannot satisfy their basic nutritional needs. In Southeast Anatolia, 80 percent of children </b><b>cannot.</b></blockquote>
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<b>In Turkey, 40.3 percent of children live in households that cannot heat their homes adequately.</b> Even though the share of children in such homes are lower in the western regions, in Istanbul, Central East and Southeast Anatolia, almost half of the children live in homes that are not adequately heated.</blockquote>
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<b>Moreover, 40 percent of children cannot replace their old clothes with new ones.</b> This is more common in Mediterranean, East Black Sea and Central East Anatolia. In Northeast Anatolia and Southeast Anatolia, more than half of the children cannot afford new clothes.</blockquote>
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Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-80597376971094447692013-09-16T19:47:00.001-07:002013-09-16T20:00:36.882-07:00Kemalism: Legal And Media Engineering To Develop An Ultra-Nationalist PopulationTurks with very few exceptions are proud ultra-nationalist lunatics. Their state is structured by their war criminal military regime who act as overseers of the state ideology of Kemalism, the Turkish equivalent to the ridiculous North Korean Juche Idea. This is changing slightly in the present as the success of the Islamic oriented AKP Party has allowed them to route out the traditional Kemalist deep state, media and other organs and replace it with their plants. However, they just want those who are more oriented into Sunni Islamic bigotry to control the state ideology, not abandon it or reform. Turks are fanatic nationalists because Kemalist ideology structures them to be so. This relatively old source from 1995 still holds largely true in most aspects:<br />
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<b>Official ideology: Turkey is the only European State to have, written into its Constitution, an official ideology. This is based on:</b>
<b>"the concept of nationalism and the principles and reforms brought about by Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic, immortal guide and incomparable hero".</b></blockquote>
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<b>According to the Preamble to the Constitution "no opinion or thought can expect to receive any protection as against Turkish National interests, the principle of the indivisibility of the Turkish national entity, its State and its territory, the historical and spiritual values, inherent in the Turkish people or the nationalism, principles reforms and modernism of Ataturk".</b>[1]</blockquote>
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<b>Foreigners passing through Turkey or observers critical of certain political aspects of the country, are often shocked by the ultra-nationalist and militarist content of the principle Turkish media and the virulence of the press campaigns they orchestrate. At the same time they notice that certain media don't hesitate to criticise on or other of the Ministers or even the Prime Minister. To understand the Turkish system one must bear in mind that, apart from some publications of the Left or islamic opposition, the principle Turkish media are at the disposal of the State and its official nationalist ideology (Ataturkism).</b></blockquote>
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<b>The political police (MIT) and the General Staff, who have a whole network of influential "honourable correspondents" constantly keep watch over what they consider "the superior interests of the State" and launch orchestrated press campaigns against "the internal and external enemies of the country".</b> Amongst the more famous victims of their campaigns: Nelson Mandela, "guilty" of having refused an Ataturk Peace Prize, which seemed to him rather out of place in a country that was martyrising its Kurdish population; Mrs Mitterrand, Senator Kennedy, the German Social-Democratic Party leader R. Scharping etc... <b>Their network covering the media is sufficiently subtle to allow each paper to have some liberal editorial writers who criticise official policy from the standpoint of another idea of "patriotism". Those who cross the thin red line(criticism of Ataturk or of nationalism, defense of the Kurds) are promptly sacked, like Koray Düzgören from Hurriyet, Ahmet Altan from Milliyet or Ismet Imset of the Turkish Daily News — often following a simple phone call from an official of the Joint Forces General Staff.</b></blockquote>
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Concentration of ownership also helps ensure a more efficient control of the media. Two groups share the bulk of the market. The Dogan Group, with the two mass circulation dailies Hurriyet and Milliyet, each of which has its own television network, and the Ding Group whose main standard bearers are the two dailies Sabah and Yeni Yuzyil as well as the ATV television network. The industrialists who control these two groups also have large interests in sectors which depend heavily on State and Army contracts. <b>The General Staff, also regularly calls the Managing Directors of the newspapers and television stations for "briefings" in which they are told how to treat matters affecting national interests and defense. It is, for example, "inadvisable" to publish anything on "events in the South-East" (Kurdistan) apart from official Army communiques.</b></blockquote>
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Finally, by a very generous policy of subsidies and loans on advantageous terms, the Government has been able to ensure the support of these media and their huge audience. The police and the courts can be left to stifle the few dissident voices, like the pro-Kurdish Ozgur Grundem, which was banned after the assassination of ten of its journalists and the blowing up of its premises by the police.</blockquote>
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<b>Despite the diversity of papers, publications, radios and televisions, those that really form public opinion are, with a few rare exceptions at the disposal of the State, its security organs and its official ideology.</b> The "organs" only have to whistle and this powerful brain-washing machine gets under way to denigrate or vilify any opponent judged too iconoclastic, or to present as an enemy of the Turkish nation any foreign personality who dares to criticise excess of the Turkish Army or Courts or express a wish for an improvement in the fate of the Kurds in Turkey.[2]</blockquote>
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[1.]The International Committee for the Liberation of the Kurdish Parliamentarians Imprisoned in Turkey(CILOEKT). <a href="http://www.institutkurde.org/en/publications/bulletins/pdf/specials/spno_which_turkey_for_which_europe.pdf">Which Turkey for Which Europe(PDF)</a>. (December 1995) p. 8.<br />
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The main difference is that in the present those who are against the AKP regime are complained against over the phone, fined, jailed, taken to court and otherwise silenced by the AKP regime, and not the militarists of the Turkish General Staff as in the past. <br />
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<b>According to data compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) based on the 2008 Household Workforce Inquiry, a total of 5.647 million people older than 15 years are illiterate. There are 4.742 million women and 932,000 men who are not able to read or write. Thus, the percentage of illiterate women amounts to 84 percent within this group.</b></blockquote>
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- ... The disadvantages situation of women is not confined to a specific age group. <b>79 percent of all illiterate women are aged between 15 and 24 years.</b> ...</blockquote>
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- <b>The number of illiterate women amounts to almost one tenth of the Turkish population</b>. ...</blockquote>
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- ... The vast majority of these women are being pushed out of economic life. <b>Only a small minority is employed and 97 percent of these women work off the record.</b></blockquote>
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- Most illiterate women cannot benefit from a stronger integration into economic life since they work as unpaid family workers.</blockquote>
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- The situation of illiterate men looks better in comparison. Still, one third of them are self-employed <b>and the remaining male illiterates are facing high rates of unemployment.</b> (BB/VK)</blockquote>
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For reference of comparison, <a href="http://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/befolkning-og-befolkningsfremskrivning.aspx">in the third quarter of 2013, Denmark, had a population of 5,608,784.</a> Thus the number of illiterates in Turkey is greater than the entire population of Denmark.<br />
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Here is the more detailed abstract by the Bahcesehir University Center for Economic and Social Research(Betam):<br />
<a href="http://betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr/en/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ResearchBrief085.pdf">4 Million 742 Thousand Women Are Illiterate
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Related blog post:<br />
<a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/08/turks-dont-read-only-1-out-of-10000-are.html"> Turks don't read: only 1 out of 10,000 are regular readers</a>
Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-4072513879710307682013-09-10T05:01:00.000-07:002018-03-26T01:52:20.437-07:00Violent Nation: Almost Half Of Doctors & Hospital Staff Attacked By Patients' FamiliesTurks are massively violent even towards members of their own Islamic society whom they perceive as being there to help them. Just try to imagine how much quicker and even more prone to violence they are to those outside of their group, whom they do not consider as Turkish or Mahometan.<br />
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Medicine is a dangerous profession in Turkey, where half of all doctors and more than a third of nurses working at polyclinics and emergency services say they have been exposed to physical and verbal abuse on the job. Patients’ families are often the perpetrators of violence, hospital personnel report in a survey, saying such incidents are on the rise, statements seemingly corroborated by a recent beating assault in Mardin and a stabbing case in Kars</blockquote>
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When Erdal Aydoğan’s wife fell ill Sunday night, he took her to Kızıltepe State Hospital in Southeast Turkey’s Mardin province for treatment. But <b>when he found out that treatment included a male nurse giving his wife an injection, Aydoğan reportedly exploded.</b></blockquote>
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<b>“How could a man give an injection to my wife,” Aydoğan yelled before allegedly beating and punching male nurse Cafer Cengiz, 25</b>, in the hospital’s emergency services area. ...</blockquote>
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Cengiz’s experience is not unusual in Turkey, where <b>a recent poll by the Istanbul Medical Chamber showed that nearly half of all doctors working at polyclinics and emergency services in hospitals, and more than a third of nurses, are exposed to physical and verbal violence – often by family members of the patients.</b></blockquote>
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<b>Seventy-two percent of participants in the survey agreed with the statement, “Violent incidents have increased within the last year,” while 51 percent agreed that, “Violent incidents have gone up at the institution where I work.”</b></blockquote>
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<b>Another such incident occurred Saturday, when Bülent Öcal, a doctor at Kars State Hospital in Eastern Turkey, was stabbed in the hospital’s polyclinic by a patient and his two relatives for not taking good enough care of the patient</b>, whose nose was bleeding.</blockquote>
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<b>Medical staff working in emergency services reported the most mistreatment, the Istanbul Medical Chamber poll said. Overall, 45 percent of doctors, 35 percent of nurses, 11 percent of administrative clerks and 7 percent of security guards said they had been exposed to violence at work. Twenty-nine percent of all health employees said they encounter physical and verbal abuse almost every day.</b></blockquote>
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Following such incidents, 40 percent inform the police and 33 percent file a case.</blockquote>
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<b>A separate poll conducted by the Isparta and Burdur Medical Chambers showed that 45 percent of health employees have been exposed to physical violence in the last year.</b></blockquote>
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Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-53150878379422405912013-09-03T04:54:00.000-07:002013-09-03T05:08:58.178-07:00The Lunatic Followers of the Kemalist State Religion in Photos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
At a recent 2013 graduation at Ege University in Izmir, Turkey[1], 720 Atatürkist, fascist graduates, sending a message to the Islamist oriented AKP after their pathetic Gezi revolt, all put up portraits of Ataturk that covered their faces. The symbolism was obvious, they are an ultra-nationalist mob worshiping their state religion and not individuals. A photo:</div>
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Turkish columnist Mustafa Akyol observed that in Turkey the most racist, intolerant group in his country are the university grads who receive the most indoctrination into the Turkish state ideology-religion known as Kemalism:</div>
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<a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=beware-of-8216educated8217-turks-2010-09-03">Hurriyet: Beware of 'educated' Turks</a>
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<b>This week, Turkey’s Education Personnel Labor Union, or Eğitim Bir-Sen, revealed a survey that mapped out the political attitudes in Turkish society.</b> ...</blockquote>
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The more interesting part of the survey was the political categories that people identified with. The most popular tags were “democrat” and “nationalist,” which were equally shared by 22 percent of the population. After that, <b>17 percent defined themselves as “Atatürkist”</b> and 10 percent preferred to be called “Islamist.”</blockquote>
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<b>Interestingly, the “Atatürkists” turned out to be the least supportive of the reforms to broaden Kurdish rights. They, for example, gave the lowest support to the 24-hour official Kurdish-language television channel TRT 6 that the government opened two years ago.</b></blockquote>
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<b>Similarly, the “Atatürkists” outperformed every other political category, including the self-declared “Turkish nationalists,” in their opposition to “teaching of mother tongues in schools.” Only 38 percent of the “Atatürkists” supported this right</b>, in contrast to 75 percent of the “leftists,” 70 percent of the “democrats” and 63 percent of the “Islamists.”</blockquote>
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The “Atatürkists,” in other words, were the least tolerant group in Turkey when it comes to cultural diversity.</blockquote>
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<b>But this was a surprising result (at least for the uninitiated foreigner) because the “Atatürkists” were also the more educated part of society. The survey underlined this paradoxical relation between “the level of education” and “the support for the democratic opening” for Kurdish rights: “As the level of education falls, the number of those who see the democratic opening as a positive step increases. Conversely, as the level of education rises, the number of those who see the democratic opening as positive declines.”</b></blockquote>
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<b>As I said, this might be surprising to foreigners, particularly Westerners, who tend to presume that “education” and “liberal values” go hand in hand.</b> ...</blockquote>
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So, one wonders, why Turkey is so exceptional?</blockquote>
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The answer might be in the education system. In the West, education is designed mainly to raise critical and democratic-minded individuals. <b>But Turkish education, from primary school to universities (yes, even the universities), is designed to raise generations “loyal to the principles and revolutions of Atatürk.”</b></blockquote>
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Unfortunately, those “principles and revolutions” don’t include concepts such as individual freedom, cultural diversity, and, alas, even democracy. (<b>In case you haven’t noticed, Atatürk has a zillion sayings about nationalism, secularism or “republicanism,” but hardly anything on democracy.</b>)</blockquote>
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<b>That’s why a mind shaped by the Turkish education system, unless tainted by some other factor, will be a staunch nationalist, secularist, and “republicanist” — but hardly a liberal or democrat.</b></blockquote>
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The education system is really the key. <b>From age 7 to 18, a Turkish student hears the word “Kurdish” only once: When he learns about the “The Society for Kurdish Advancement,” as one of the “treacherous organizations” that arose in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.</b> (The take-away message is that “Kurd” is something treacherous.)</blockquote>
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Furthermore, the same “educated” Turks also believe that their co-nationals who question such national myths are either paid agents of the “imperialists” who want to destroy Turkey or wild-eyed Islamists who yearn for “the darkness of the middle ages.”</blockquote>
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Again in Izmir in 2013, one of the strongholds of Kemalist fascists, a lunatic mob of Kemalists Turks wasted their time recreating a potrait of Ataturk[2] like the North Koreans of the Mideast they are:<br />
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Due to all the Kemalist brainwashing in Turkey, Kemalist Turks see the long-dead dictator and militarist, Ataturk, as an immortal father figure. Here are some photos of the North Koreans of the Mideast kissing the statue of the immortal father and seeing if his statue will whisper them advice[3]:<br />
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Finally from the 2007 Republic protests of the Kemalist fascists against the Islamic oriented AKP party, here are some North Koreans again showing they are not self regulating individuals but part of the homogeneous ultra-nationalist, Kemalist mob[4]:<br />
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[1.] Most of the photos in this blog post where gathered from the <a href="http://www.network54.com/Forum/211833/">The World's Armed Forces Forum,</a> <a hre="http://www.network54.com/Forum/248068/" href="http://www.blogger.com/null">Greece & Turkey subforum</a> posted by North Koreanesque Turks themselves to actually gloat about their blind, slavish obedience to the symbol of a long-dead man. The forum is like a Wild West environment, but the Turks there are very open and proud of their national fascism, barbarism and atrocities so it is a good source on the North Korea of the Mideast. Instead of hiding or denying their crimes or dirty laundry they most often gloat over it!<br />
This particular graduation is from this thread:<br />
<a href="http://www.network54.com/Forum/248068/thread/1373988127/">Greece & Turkey Forum: Ege University graduation</a> July 16 2013<br />
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[2.] <a href="http://www.network54.com/Forum/248068/thread/1364772943/">Greece & Turkey Forum Thread: This is why I love Izmir</a> April 1 2013<br />
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[3.] <a href="http://www.network54.com/Forum/248068/thread/1371134968/">Greece & Turkey Forum Thread: And they say Kemalists are like North Koreans, I've never seen a North Korean do this</a> June 13 2013<br />
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[4.] <a href="http://pashagypsy.blogspot.com/2009/01/second-anniversary-of-disgust.html">The Pasha and the Gypsy Blog: The Second Anniversary of Disgust</a> January 18, 2009Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-26998765016051048132013-09-01T06:33:00.000-07:002013-09-01T06:33:22.957-07:00UK Parliament: Turkish military and legislators involved in aiding migrant traffickersThe UK government released this soft spoken, understated report that nevertheless slams the <a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/03/turkey-bandit-state.html">Turkish bandit state</a> and its role in migrant trafficking.<br />
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In 2010, more than 100,000 illegal migrants were arrested at the Greek borders, including the border with Albania. Prior to the Frontex Rapid Border Intervention Team operation at the Greek-Turkish land border, up to 300 illegal migrants were entering Greece every day by this route; the number has since fallen to 100-120. </blockquote>
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In terms of people smugglers, out of 93 facilitators identified in 2009, the highest proportion were Bulgarian (30), Greek (19) or Turkish (15). In 2010, there were 28 Turkish facilitators out of a total of 73. The overall reduction in the number of people smugglers arrested in 2010 was partly because the modus operandi of the traffickers has changed. <b>In 2010, the Evros authorities observed the development of a new route of irregular migration, whereby migrants make use of cheap flights from North Africa to Istanbul, then travel on to Greece.</b> ... </blockquote>
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<b>Since November 2010, there has been a marked improvement in interventions from the Turkish authorities before migrants cross the border. The Frontex operation is not doing anything significantly different from the role performed by the Greek authorities, apart from providing increased personnel and provision of technical assistance in the form of cameras, helicopters and so forth. However, its presence has put pressure on Turkey to act. The Greek authorities have noticed a military presence on the Turkish border which was not there prior to the Frontex operation</b>, Turkish border stations are now manned continuously, and new informal cooperation has started between the Greek and Turkish military. <b>They have also noticed a reduction in corrupt dealings between Turkish officers and people smugglers. </b></blockquote>
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It is very muted criticism and too diplomatic, as Western imperialist states like the United Kingdom have always abetted and enabled the second class imperialism of Turkey. However, the report acknowledges that the presence of Frontex has almost cut down by a third the number of migrants crossing from Turkey to Greece via the Evros river, from 300 a day to 100-120. It also admits that the corrupt Turkish military has dealings with smugglers and they have noticed a reduction in these double deals, now that Frontex is present to witness it. It also acknowledges that migrants from North Africa actually prefer to transit to Istanbul to cross into Europe instead of plying the closer and more porous Mediterranean coastline of France, Spain or Italy. Turkish legislators legally and carefully engineered their country becoming an illegal immigrant hub, to fill Europe with Mahometans and earn black funds:<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/world/europe/illegal-immigrants-slip-into-europe-by-way-of-greek-border.html?_r=0">NYTimes: For Illegal Immigrants, Greek Border Offers a Back Door to Europe</a> </blockquote>
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But the last staging area for most immigrants is really Istanbul, the teeming Turkish city that is a magnet for those who have often walked for months through the wilds of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. </blockquote>
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<b>Turkey has come under criticism because of its liberal visa requirements, which make it easy for immigrants to legally enter the country and then move on. Citizens of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Syria and Iran, among many other nations, do not need a visa to enter the country. </b></blockquote>
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Once in Turkey, they share crowded apartments and try to find work and save enough to pay smugglers for false papers and passage across the border. </blockquote>
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Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-54368782876645843702013-08-27T07:11:00.003-07:002017-07-19T05:32:24.805-07:00Kemalism: the fascist Turkish state religion modeled after IslamWhat the backward Turkish nation considers secularism is not the separation of Church and State of the Western model, rather a Turkish secularist is a type of rabidly fervent fascist that elevates the state and nation to the level of a religion, referenced after Islam. Ziya Gökalp, one of the most prominent Turkish nationalist theorists(who himself was likely a Kurd, but pretended to have pure Turkic origins), outlined the contours of what is now termed Kemalism, the omnipotent Turkish statism, imputed falsely to Ataturk today(as Turks are quite proud of their historic ignorance):<br />
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<b>Gokalp gave "the nation" an important mystical component. In his work, "he transferred to the nation the divine qualities he had found in society, replacing the belief in God with the belief in the nation: and so nationalism became a religion."[43] The national is deified, thus expanding Durkheim's idea that "society can do as it pleases."</b> So, if a nation perceives itself in danger, it feels no moral responsibility in its response to that danger. The Unionist "scientific approach" gained a "sacred" character through Gokalp's theories.</blockquote>
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Heyd, Uriel. <u>Foundations of Turkish Nationalism: The Life and Teachings of Ziya Gökalp.</u> p. 57.</blockquote>
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cited in: Akcam, Taner. <u>A shameful act : the Armenian genocide and the question of Turkish responsibility.</u> (Metropolitan Books; 2006) pp. 88-9.</blockquote>
Further the Preamble part of <a href="https://global.tbmm.gov.tr/docs/constitution_en.pdf">the Turkish Constitution</a> contains this fascist screed:<br />
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<b>Affirming the eternal existence of the Turkish Motherland and Nation and the indivisible unity of the Sublime Turkish State, this Constitution, in line with the concept of nationalism introduced by the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Atatürk, the immortal leader and the unrivalled hero</b>, and his reforms and principles;<br />
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<b>That no protection shall be accorded to an
activity contrary to Turkish national interests, Turkish existence and
the principle of its indivisibility with its State and territory,
historical and moral values of Turkishness; the nationalism, principles,
reforms and civilizationism of Atatürk</b> and that sacred religious
feelings shall absolutely not be involved in state affairs and politics
as required by the principle of secularism<strong>;</strong></blockquote>
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Brainwashed Turks kissing the marble at Anıtkabir, the memorial tomb of the immortal dictator of the Turkish nation, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,:<br />
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This more current article demonstrates how powerful in practice the official worship of the state with Ataturk, as it embodied, immortal, ever present Father figure is amongst the fascist Turkish nation:<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/world/europe/16ataturk.html">New York Times: In Complex Times, Turkey Seeks a Reassuring Face</a></blockquote>
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By SABRINA TAVERNISE, January 16, 2008</blockquote>
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<b>Almost 85 years after Ataturk formed the modern state of Turkey from the remains of the Ottoman Empire, millions of Turks still flock to the mausoleum that contains his grave here in the country’s capital.</b> So many that 2007 was a record year for visitors, according to the Web site of the mausoleum, called Anitkabir. </blockquote>
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<b>Last year, a total of 12.7 million people visited the monument, a figure lifted by a large demonstration in the spring, but still a 50 percent rise over the previous year and more than in any other year in the 54-year history of the monument, according to the Anka news agency. </b></blockquote>
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Why the surge in visits to the grave of a man who died in 1938? For one, Ataturk is no ordinary man. <b>He is referred to as the “immortal leader and unrivaled hero,” in the preamble to the Turkish Constitution. Insulting his memory is a crime in the penal code. The entire nation stops to mourn on the minute, each November, when he died. </b></blockquote>
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<b>Newspaper headlines last week told of a group of high school students who painted a Turkish flag using their own blood and sent it to the commander of the military. Last year, the authorities were forced to discontinue a lottery scratch card because its design was an outline of Turkey, and scratching off the eastern part was seen as an act of sedition.</b> ...</blockquote>
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Note: 2007 was the year of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6604643.stm">the so called "Republic Protests"</a> in Turkey, where millions of the more fascist fake secular Kemalist Turks <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6602775.stm">backed by their politically meddling military protested</a> when they realized the more Islamic oriented Abdullah Gul of the AKP party would likely win the Presidental elections(which he did).Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-50735726468755953792013-08-16T19:27:00.000-07:002013-08-16T19:27:19.485-07:00Turkish involvement in the Balkan organ tradeTurks around the world and their <a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/03/turkey-bandit-state.html">bandit state</a> have a huge involvement, in all manner of illicit activities from drug trafficking, migrant smuggling, nuclear weapons proliferation and even organ trafficking. The following excerpt from an article written back in May exposes the Turkish connection and liaison with Albanians also involved in the organ trade:<br />
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<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/06/130506fa_fact_schmidle">The New Yorker: Bring Up the Bodies</a></blockquote>
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by Nicholas Schmidle, May 6, 2013</blockquote>
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... <strong>Since the late nineteen-nineties, Istanbul—a short flight from Tirana—has been a destination for transplant tourism.</strong> </blockquote>
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In late 2002, a K.L.A. member told Montgomery that the group had made “a fortune” by trafficking body parts, primarily kidneys. C., as Montgomery called the source, claimed that the K.L.A. received about forty-five thousand dollars per body. Most shipments involved body parts from “two or three Serbs,” though C. knew of an instance when the K.L.A. “did five Serbs together.”</blockquote>
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<strong>That October, a young Turkish man, who had agreed to accept twenty thousand dollars for one of his kidneys</strong>, arrived at the clinic in Pristina. The kidney was removed and placed inside a seventy-four-year-old Israeli man, who had paid ninety thousand euros for it. <strong>The operations were performed by Dervishi and by a Turkish surgeon, Yusuf Sonmez, who is known in the Turkish press as Dr. Frankenstein, for his prominent role in the black-market organ trade.</strong> ...</blockquote>
Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-64166392603946043162013-08-10T18:29:00.004-07:002013-08-10T18:44:15.597-07:00"Secular" Turkey: 28% of marriages involve child brides<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://www.ucansupurge.org/english/index2.php?Hbr=140">Flying Broom(woman's activist organization in Turkey): Child brides in Turkey</a></blockquote>
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Flying Broom News Center</blockquote>
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"When my friends were going to school, I, as a little girl of 13 had been married with a man, a friend of my father, in his 30s. I was scared when he was at home. I could even not enter in his room. I'll never forgive my father," said an unnamed child bride from Van province, now in her 40s.</blockquote>
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<b>It is difficult to determine the exact number of child marriages in Turkey as many go unreported or are unofficial "imam" (religious) ceremonies.</b> "This makes the situation more problematic as they are not registered officially, making it difficult to track them," attorney Vildan Yirmibesoglu told SETimes.</blockquote>
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<b>However, according to the Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies' data, the early marriage rate in Turkey -- defined as marriage at 17 years of age and younger in the 15-49 year-old age group -- is 28% on average. The number includes unofficial religious marriages and shows regional variation, with highs of near 41% in eastern and southeastern Turkey.</b></blockquote>
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<b>"When thinking of including women over 49 years of age it wouldn't be incorrect to say the numbers would be much higher," Dr. Ilknur Yuksel-Kaptanoglu of the Institute of Populations Studies told SETimes</b>, adding that "Even though the numbers have been falling over the years, they are still high and continue to be a problem."</blockquote>
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<b>According to a recent report by parliament's Committee on the Equality of Opportunity for Women and Men, many families in eastern Turkey do not consider underage marriage a problem.</b></blockquote>
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The Flying Broom Women's Communication and Research Foundation is one of the most influential civil society organizations campaigning against child marriage. They are active in 54 cities, meeting with child brides to give them a chance to tell their own stories.</blockquote>
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The consequences of early marriages can be significant. <b>It often leads to children dropping out of school and perpetuates the poverty cycle, but according to Guner it also contributes to domestic violence, incestuous relationships, health problems, and even death.</b></blockquote>
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<b>Girls between the ages of 15 and 19 are four times more likely to die in childbirth than adult pregnancies.</b> According to statistics based on Yirmibesoglu's recent case studies, a quarter of women suicides in Turkey are from the age range of 14-16.</blockquote>
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More info can found in the following PDF by the Flying Brides organization:<br />
<a href="http://www.girlsnotbrides.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Flying-Broom-Flying-News-publication-on-Early-and-Forced-Marriage.pdf">Flying News publication on ‘Early and Forced Marriage’</a><br />
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<br />Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-31499321484771582662013-08-08T19:25:00.001-07:002013-08-09T16:00:54.266-07:00Turks don't read: only 1 out of 10,000 are regular readers<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/news-311221-poor-reading-habits-in-turkey-due-to-exam-based-education-system.html">Zaman: Poor reading habits in Turkey due to exam-based education system</a></blockquote>
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31 March 2013 /İPEK ÜZÜM, İSTANBUL </blockquote>
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As Turkey marks the 49th Library Week across the country this week, some librarians have stated that the poor reading habits in Turkey are due to the exam-based education system in which the cognitive and intellectual development of children is being neglected.</blockquote>
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According to a study released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in January 2013, a smaller number of Turks read books regularly than people in European countries. The study states that <b>in European countries 21 people out of 100 read books regularly, while in Turkey that same statistic is one person out of 10,000.</b> Turkey ranks 86th in the world for the amount of time a country’s residents read, the study revealed. <b>According to the study, Turks watch an average of six hours of TV a day and surf the Internet three hours a day but only dedicate six hours a year to reading a book. The UNESCO report also reveals that reading books is in 235th place on a list of things most valued in life by Turks.</b></blockquote>
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Attributing the poor reading habits in Turkey to its education system, Turkish Librarians’ Association (TKD) Chairman Ali Fuat Kartal said during an interview with Sunday’s Zaman that Turkey has an exam-based system in which the students mainly only focus on preparing for the exams, adding that the students’ cognitive and intellectual development is neglected. “Another factor is that teachers at Turkish schools don’t read much. It is important for students to see their teachers reading, which might direct them to reading books. ...</blockquote>
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‘Insufficient number of libraries’</blockquote>
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Stating that the number of libraries is limited <b>in Turkey, where the population is over 75 million, Kartal added that there are only 1,112 public libraries in the country, further stating: “The conditions of libraries are not very good as the books and other materials in the public libraries are not regularly updated. They are filled with outdated books.</b> Libraries should be updated with newly published books at regular intervals to keep the interest of readers or visitors alive.”</blockquote>
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However, a source from the same AKP that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/in-turkey-media-bosses-are-undermining-democracy.html">uses its state influence to get corrupt media moguls to self-censor their reporters so they can win state contracts for their holding company</a> and when that fails <a href="http://kamilpasha.com/?p=7329">arrest or charge journalists with terrorism</a>, invents some creatively optimist facts about Turkish reading habits:<br />
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At odds with the first interviewee and the UNESCO report, Turkish Publishers’ Association President Metin Celal told Sunday’s Zaman that Turkey’s reading habits are not so much low as exaggerated. Pointing to a study conducted by the Culture and Tourism Ministry in 2011, Celal stated: “According to the study, 7.2 books are read per person a year on average in Turkey, which is not that low compared to some other countries in the world. Turkey has higher rates than most of the countries in the world. Despite this, Turkey’s reading habit rates are not yet sufficient.”</blockquote>
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I will believe UNESCO and not the Turkish state's organs on this one. <br />
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<br />Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-33158960687072587652013-08-07T14:28:00.001-07:002013-08-08T18:01:21.673-07:0013-year-old raped by 29 people in Western Turkey<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/158431--turkish-press-review">Anadolu Agency: Turkish press review</a>
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11 April 2013
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<b>A 13-year-old girl [was] raped by 29 people, including a petty officer and students, in western Golcuk.</b> Daily Milliyet said with her teacher's efforts a secret investigation was launched and 29 people were taken into custody in charges of having intercourse with the underaged and blackmailing. 8 of them, including the petty officer, were arrested. The girl is under psychological treatment.</blockquote>
Note: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6lc%C3%BCk">Gölcük</a> is in Western Turkey where the allegedly advanced <i>white Turks</i> of the fake secular type tend to preponderate.Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-14011772602829750732013-07-30T13:35:00.003-07:002013-07-30T13:35:48.883-07:00Turkish colonists in Germany have a 30% unemployment rate! <blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.nsf/turkish_press_en/turkish_press_en?OpenDocument">Republic of Cyprus, Press and Information Office, Turkish Press Review</a>: <a href="http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.nsf/All/08192E17D3BC7776C2257B2E0048766D?OpenDocument">Study shows that 193 thousand Turkish migrants return back to Turkey from Germany in the last four years</a></blockquote>
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Turkish daily Hurriyet Daily News (14.03.13) reports that according to a study conducted by the Germany-based Turkish European Foundation for Education and Scientific Studies (TAVAK) ...</blockquote>
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According to the study, there are currently 2,950,000 people of Turkish origin living in Germany, of whom only 1,020,000 are in possession of German citizenship. Some 1,930,000 people keep their Turkish passports and hold foreigner status. </blockquote>
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Individuals of Turkish origin make up 31% of the nearly 9 million immigrants in Germany. Around 720,000 of these are tenants while 230,000 own their houses. Average household size is 3.9 and average income is 2,020 euro, meaning that the total income of Turks in the country amounts to 16.5 billion euro.</blockquote>
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<b>The unemployment rate among Turks in Germany is 30% according to TAVAK figures, compared with the overall unemployment rate of 5.90%.</b> However these statistics do not tell the whole story, according to Sen.</blockquote>
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“Nearly 2 million short term workers are not counted among the unemployed. In addition, nearly 1.5 million people taking vocational courses and the nearly 1.6 million women who have remained jobless for over 15 months do not have unemployed status,” he said, suggesting that the real overall unemployment rate in Germany was 14.5%.</blockquote>
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Sen also claimed that excluding Turks from professional life was a regular practice in Germany. “Firms do not want Turks or other outsiders that are suggested for their positions by the Labor-Employment Exchange Institute,” he said, adding his opinion that the reason behind this, is rising “Islamophobia” and “Turkophobia,” especially in Germany. He said that the neo-Nazi attacks against Turks, were concrete results of discrimination.</blockquote>
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Some 44% of the Turkish migrant population lives below the national poverty line (372 euro per month) in the country, according to Sen. ...</blockquote>
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Turkey and Germany do not have a double citizenship agreement, which forces youngsters to make a choice between the two before the age of 23.</blockquote>
Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-39496186985798325432013-07-24T13:14:00.000-07:002013-07-24T13:14:03.842-07:00Turkey #1 for child porn searches, 400,000 children abused by relatives<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/400000-minors-abused-by-inner-circle-person-in-turkey-report.aspx?pageID=238&nID=51123&NewsCatID=341">Hurriyet: 400,000 minors abused by inner circle person in Turkey: Report </a></blockquote>
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Up to 400,000 children have been sexually abused by family members or relatives in the past 20 years in Turkey according to official reports, Turkish daily Taraf reported July 21. </blockquote>
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<strong>Reports from Social Services and the Child Protection Institution, and the Children Bureaus of the Police Department have shown that the number of under-aged being sexually assaulted by a family member or someone close to the child or family lies between 350,000 and 400,000 in the last 20 years.</strong> Reports have shown that 80 percent of the perpetrators either directly know the child or the parents closely.</blockquote>
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Only 27 percent of sexually abused children shared their situation with someone, though this usually happened long after the assault took place, while the larger part did not tell anyone about the abuse they underwent. A total of 32 percent of these children did not speak to anyone about the sexual assault even after they became adults.</blockquote>
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<strong>Reports also showed that Turkey ranked number one in searches on sexual images of children within the 13-19 years age bracket, while Turkey tops the list in searches for the words “çocuk pornosu/child porn” on the Google search engine. The children aged between 13 and 19, who can be seen in sexual images and footage found online, number over 36,000. Of these children, 42 percent are under the age of seven, whereas 77 percent are aged nine or younger.</strong> Only one percent of the children whose images are put online could be identified. </blockquote>
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Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-44482018127809993722013-07-22T06:46:00.000-07:002013-07-22T06:46:18.688-07:00Turkish nationalism/fake secularism: take only material civilization from the WestWith the Gezi protests, many Western idiots have taken to believing in the fantasy of <em>democracy in Turkey</em>, because the Kemalist demographic doing most the protesting has decided to present it as a struggle of democracy to gain outside support. However in an Islamic society like the Turkish, democracy is not a goal held by any powerful segment of society. What Turks want is only the material civilization of the West, in the vain hope of gaining in some distant future enough national power to make new sieges against Vienna and Belgrade. They want to keep the spirituality and mentality Islam, no matter how secular they claim they are(by Turkish standards: which are low standards for secularism). Thus all that there can be in Turkish society is the powerful dictating and compelling the vulnerable.<br />
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Don't support the fake secular ideology of Turkey known as Kemalism and don't support Kemalists.<br />
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<b>The theme that a patriotic Turk should try to achieve a balance between the benefits of the West and the East by opting for adopting the science and technology of the former and the spirituality of the latter is repeated quite often in the schooling system designed by the educational establishment in Turkey. This difficult endeavour is almost like a mission for every patriotic Turk. Hence, it is possible to argue that since the days of the early Westernization efforts. the Turkish psyche has been burdened with the difficult task of achieving a balance between the Western civilization and the Turkish culture.</b> ... <b>Patriotic Turks try to resolve this tension by achieving a balance between the materiality of the West and the spirituality of the East.</b> However, the achievement of such a balance is quite enigmatic since a combination of Western civilization and Eastern culture, when transposed to the realm of nationalism renders itself as an insoluble problem.</blockquote>
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A preoccupation with this balance between modernity and tradition, Western materialism and Eastern spirituality as well as Civilization -- based on the premises of Enlightenment -- and Culture -- based on the premises of Romanticism -- is a recurring theme accompanying Turkish modernization. The desire to achieve such a balance is nowhere better expressed than in Ziya Gokalp's (1876-1924) works. Ziya Gokalp's ideas were wavering between the three trends of Islamism, Turkism, and Westernism, hence, reflecting the political climate of the context in which he was located. As Niyazi Berkes puts it: `He was fighting within himself the battle that intellectuals and politicians were raging on other levels'.(20)</blockquote>
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Ziya Gokalp produced his basic writings between the years 1911 and 1918 when he was associated with the Party of Union and Progress against the emotional background of the period laden with nationalist movements among the non-Muslim and non-Turkish peoples of the decadent Ottoman Empire. While on the one hand, there were those intellectuals and politicians who opted for a social reconstruction by way of reversion to Seriat (Islamic law), there were those who staunchly supported the idea of Westernization, on the other. In addition to these two groups, there were others who longed for the romantic ideal of the pre-Islamic Turkic unity. Ziya Gokalp was influenced by all of these trends. Yet, he envisaged a<b> middle road in the tradition of Namik Kemal: `that only the material civilization of Europe should be taken and not its non-material aspects'.(21</b>) Yet, contrary to Namik Kemal's thought, Ziya Gokalp did not think that the individual and his reason could be a criteria for social reconstruction. Ziya Gokalp rather signified a shift from Tanzimat rationalism inspired by the eighteenth century thinkers of the European Enlightenment to the nineteenth century Romantic thought in the tradition of the German philosophers by accepting the transcendental reality of society identified with the nation instead of individual reason. Berkes sums up Ziya Gokalp's convictions in the following manner: `As the ultimate reality of contemporary society is the nation, and as national ideals are ultimate forces orienting the behavior of the individuals, so the most urgent task for the Turks consisted of awakening as a nation in order to adapt themselves to the conditions of contemporary civilization'.(22)</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ayse.htm">Ayse Kadioglu, "The Paradox of Turkish Nationalism and the Construction of Official Identity," Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 32, no. 2 (April 1996)</a></blockquote>
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<br />Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-21476215128463258962013-05-28T01:20:00.003-07:002017-07-22T08:21:59.156-07:0021.1% National Inbreeding/Consanguinity Rate in TurkeyDue to Islamic strictures and prohibitions against males and females inter-mingling with their unmarried peers of the opposite sex, Mahometan Turks have a high rate of inbreeding, despite the ruses of Kemalist modernists. When family forbids socialization with peers of the opposite sex or makes it difficult, the young have to narrow their focus amongst their related cousins and other relatives that they are allowed to socialize with and inevitably develop feelings there or have a family member notice "how well" they get along together, so why not arrange a marriage.<br />
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Ann Hum Genet. 1994 Oct;58(Pt 4):321-9.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7864588">Pubmed.gov: Consanguineous marriage in Turkey and its impact on fertility and mortality.</a></blockquote>
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Tunçbílek E, Koc I.</blockquote>
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Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, Ankara, Turkey.</blockquote>
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<b>Turkey has a high rate of consanguineous marriage (21.1%)</b>, indicating strong preference for this traditional form of marital union. <b>Social and cultural factors are especially important in marriages between first and second cousins.</b> Fertility is high, the closed birth interval is long, and the sterility rate is low among these couples. Post-neonatal, infant and under-5 mortalities are high in first cousin unions by comparison with non-consanguineous marriages. According to the results of the study, first cousin marriage is a significant determinant underlying the high total fertility and infant mortality rates in Turkey.</blockquote>
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Sly Turks of the Kemalist variety will blame this high rate of inbreeding on Kurds, but even the Turks of Western Turkey or "white Turks", have a high rate of consanguinity:<br />
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<a href="http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/030144699282598">Annals of Human Biology: SHORT REPORT Consanguineous marriages in Denizli, Turkey</a></blockquote>
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1999, Vol. 26, No. 5 , Pages 489-491 (doi:10.1080/030144699282598)</blockquote>
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M. TURE, B. TUGRUL, N. MERCAN, H. TURE, B. AKDAG</blockquote>
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For the study 1000 families were interviewed during 1996 in the city of Denizli, which is situated in Western Anatolia and has a population of 79 211 families. <b>The overall rate of consanguinity was 11.7% ... The principal type of consanguineous marriage recorded was between first cousins, which accounted for 49.6% of all unions.</b> For both sexes, a significant negative association was observed between consanguinity and mean age at marriage and level of education.</blockquote>
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But the rate is higher in Eastern Turkey:<br />
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The frequency of consanguineous marriage in eastern Turkey. </blockquote>
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Department of Pediatrics, Yüzüncü Yil University Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey.</blockquote>
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Genetic Counseling (Geneva, Switzerland) [2009, 20(3):207-214] </blockquote>
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METHODS: <b>This study was performed in Van region, Eastern Turkey, between September 2005 and April 2006. A total of 650 families from 24 districts chosen</b> in accordance with the number of inhabitants were included in this study. First cousin marriages were accepted as a first degree CMs, sesquialter and second cousin marriages as second degree and marriages between distant relatives were accepted as a third degree CM. ...</blockquote>
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RESULTS: <b>Of all families, 224 (34.4%) had CM, and 168 (75%) had first-degree consanguinity.</b> A lower CM rate was found in mothers who graduated from secondary school or upgrading (p < 0.01). However, no relationship was found between CM and fathers' education level. <b>While a low CM rate was found in families who had two or less children (p < 0.01), high rate was observed in families who had five or more children.</b> In addition, a high rate of miscarriage, stillbirth and mental-motor retardation was found in families with CM (p < 0.05). The rate of child mortality between the aged 0-2 years was found to be higher in families with CM (p < 0.01). The higher CM rate was observed in families who married due to pressure or insistence of their families than married voluntarily (p < 0.05).</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003399503000716">According to another study, even on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, inbreeding is increasing</a> amongst the rural populace, not decreasing.Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-14984595019034151332013-05-25T00:09:00.003-07:002013-05-25T00:23:27.050-07:00Turkish Gendarmerie leaked documents: Al-Nusra, not Assad behind Reyhanli bombing<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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Gendarmerie (Rural Police) Intelligence Department documents obtained by Redhack reveals that Turkish State knew about the vehicles packed with explosives that was detonated in Reyhanli/Hatay, which resulted in 51 deaths (unofficial reports confirm more than 100 dead).</blockquote>
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Documents outline the vehicle details including plate numbers of three cars and that they were prepared by Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front in Syria on 23rd April 2013. It also gives information about Turkey registered vehicles packed with explosives, small and delicate devices that was send to Syria from Turkey. </blockquote>
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We now know why the government censored the media reporting on the explosions took place on 11th May 2013. <b>The documents indicate that the explosion was expected and known in advance. However it was disregarded. Subsequently after the explosion the blame is systematically targeted to be directed at the Alewites[Alawites] and left- wing organisations with malicious efforts to collapse the Syrian state.</b> ... Although the authorities and the Military received intelligence that an explosion was plotted in Reyhanli they failed to act to prevent this attack.</blockquote>
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Did PM Erdogan knew it was planted by Al-Nusra before he met Obama to plan a possible war with Syria? </blockquote>
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1. <b>Kahraman Maras and Hatay Gendarmerie were provided with intelligence on 17.05.2013 that supplies were to be delivered via a vehicle with the registration of 63 E 3436 to Syria to support a group recognised as Al-Qaida militants. It was known that this group was in preparation to construct explosives.</b> Detailed information in connection to the preparation of explosives was informed specifically detailed in documents received.</blockquote>
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2. Technical/sensitive sources investigation: A Lancer make dark colour vehicle loaded with bombs, registration 022 506 (believed to be Syrian registration plate) and KIA Rio make, registration: 667512 (Damascus) Silver colour vehicle: These two vehicles and a black Saab, of which the registration is unknown but believed to be a Damascus registered vehicle, were informed to be loaded with bombs, and on standby in the town of Idlip Syria. Further across the Turkish border intelligence was received,that a vehicle was known to be loaded with explosives , small and sensitive devices. Gendarmeries have been informed that Syrian security forces were searching for those vehicles. Intelligence received has suggested that the vehicles at question were in preparations of an attack targeting Syria. <b>On 25.04.2013 intelligence was again received specifying that, in the town of Rakka, Syria, active militants of El Nusra were known to load and assemble bombs in three vehicles on 23.04.2013. Vehicles were identified as a Mazda 323, Kia Rio and the third was unidentified. These vehicles were prepared to be part of an attack in our country. </b></blockquote>
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The bombings at question are believed to be in parallel connection with these identified vehicles. In analysing the intelligence and information received it is known that the explosions have been ongoing in our borders and is known to effect our country. </blockquote>
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In a follow up <a href="http://redhack.tumblr.com/post/51167795968/turkish-government-tries-to-hide-their-responsibility">Redhack posted that the gendarmerie officer who allegedly leaked those documents to them has been taken into custody</a>, giving official credence to these leaked materials. Of course he was arrested since leaking those documents showing that the AKP's terrorist Al-qaeda ally, Al Nusra, was the likely culprit according to their own intelligence services undermines the Neo-Ottoman ambitions to set up a quisling fundamentalist Sunni state in Syria with the aid of such terrorists against Assad who is publicly blamed for the blast by the fascist-Islamic tribe ruling in Ankara.<br />
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In a past post on this blog, Orhan Kemal Cengiz, pointed out after the revelation of the Turkish state's involvement in Greek forest fires, that the Turkish state was a "bandit state":<br />
<a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/03/turkey-bandit-state.html">Turkey, the bandit state</a><br />
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<br />Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-77883514166496640712013-05-18T20:40:00.000-07:002018-10-02T17:08:16.531-07:00The only friend of a Turk: other Turkish MahometansA famous saying of the chauvinist Turkish nation is: "The only friend of a Turk is another Turk."[1] However since the fake Turkish nationalism/secularism is just a re-adaption and even greater narrowing of Islamic allegiance from a wider Islamic ummah to an even smaller Turkish national ummah, one finds that is just a nationalist re-adaptation of the following Surah:<br />
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Chapter 3 Surah 118 </blockquote>
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PICKTHAL: O ye who believe! Take not for intimates others than your own folk, who would spare no pains to ruin you; they love to hamper you. Hatred is revealed by (the utterance of) their mouths, but that which their breasts hide is greater. We have made plain for you the revelations if ye will understand.[2]</blockquote>
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Turkist theorist Ziya Gökalp elevated the elevated the national to a religious level, which explains their ultra-nationalist penchant as a nation:<br />
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Gokalp gave "the nation" an important mystical component. In his work, "he transferred to the nation the divine qualities he had found in society, replacing the belief in God with the belief in the nation: and so nationalism became a religion."[43] The national is deified, thus expanding Durkheim's idea that "society can do as it pleases." So, if a nation perceives itself in danger, it feels no moral responsibility in its response to that danger. The Unionist "scientific approach" gained a "sacred" character through Gokalp's theories.[3]</blockquote>
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As <a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/03/hollow-secularism-turkish-males-cannot.html">Ali Osman Egilmez, observed in a previous posting on this blog</a>, the Turks are modernist, seeking a modus-vivendi between Islam and the West, and not modern. Thus the Turkish saying admonishing Turks to take only as friends other Turks, is just a re-adaption and further narrowing of a Surah.<br />
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[1.] <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06ANKARA6118_a.html">Wikileaks Cable: 06ANKARA6118, 26 Oct 2006</a><br />
[2.] <a href="http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/nora/html/3-118.html">The University of Leeds: Qurany Tool: Al-Emran Verse No:118</a><br />
[3.] Heyd, Uriel. <u>Foundations of Turkish Nationalism: The Life and Teachings of Ziya Gökalp.</u> p. 57.<br />
cited in: Akcam, Taner. <u>A shameful act : the Armenian genocide and the question of Turkish responsibility.</u> (Metropolitan Books; 2006) pp. 88-9.Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-91777137795834922082013-05-11T01:15:00.001-07:002013-05-11T01:15:18.058-07:00Higher youth unemployment even than crisis racked PIIGS, during alleged AKP boomOn April 27th 2013, the Economist published the following article: <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/international/21576657-around-world-almost-300m-15-24-year-olds-are-not-working-what-has-caused">Generation jobless.</a> One cannot help but notice the following graph which shows that the Turkish youth have even bleaker prospects than the worst crisis hit members of the Eurozone like Greece or Spain:<br />
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NEET: Not in Education, Employment or Training</div>
Yet what we hear mostly in the Turkish and global media is about the alleged success of the Turkish AKP in the economic field and that on the contrary the sky is falling on the PIIGS.<br />
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Related post:<br />
<a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/02/cracks-in-akps-el-dorado-economy-no-gold.html">Cracks in AKP's El Dorado economy, no gold</a><br />
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<br />Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-12052603650319456462013-05-11T00:38:00.001-07:002013-05-11T01:15:57.004-07:00Turks: the most jingoist, chauvinist and fanboy nation in the world according to Reputation Institute Turks are a lunatic ultra-nationalist people indocrinated to be great chauvinists from cradle to grave, so the findings of this research are of little surprise, but unfortunately the rest of the world is ignorant about the hubris of the "North Koreans of the Mideast".<br />
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<a href="http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/life/which-country-has-best-reputation-488471">CNN Travel: Which country has the best reputation?</a> </blockquote>
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The Reputation Institute reveals the countries with the most cred, as well as the most narcissistic</blockquote>
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The survey, titled "2012 Country RepTrak," asked 36,000 consumers in the world’s G8 -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States -- to rate the reputation of 50 countries worldwide.</blockquote>
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The Country RepTrak measured perceptions of countries based on 16 characteristics in three categories: advanced economy, appealing environment and effective government.</blockquote>
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In addition to the global score, the institution researched which countries love themselves the most -- the self-image score.</blockquote>
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<b>Turkey has the highest gap between global score (44.37) and self-image score (75.41)</b>, closely followed by China.</blockquote>
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Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-10362491536694617232013-04-05T21:47:00.002-07:002013-04-05T21:47:47.663-07:00Turkish sexual pervert rapes duckThis is what happens due to Islamic prohibitions against male and female sexuality, perversion ensues to take up the void vacated by healthier sexual attitudes.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/man-rapes-duck-in-turkish-village-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=30133&NewsCatID=341">Hurriyet: Man rapes duck in Turkish village</a></blockquote>
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A man was detained in Bursa province in Turkey’s Marmara region for allegedly raping a duck, daily Habertürk reported.</blockquote>
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The man’s father-in-law said he found "feathers and blood" in a bed with the duck.</blockquote>
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The duck was "unable to walk," according to the father-in-law. The man’s mother-in-law told daily Habertürk she later discovered the man’s bloody shirt by a tree the next morning.</blockquote>
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The 50 year-old suspect denied all accusations, calling them all "slander."</blockquote>
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The duck was found to have suffered deformation and damage to its intestines and underwent several operations. It is now reportedly in good condition and remains in a vetrenarian’s care. </blockquote>
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Related blog posts on the sexual deviancy of Turks:<br />
<a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/02/turkish-males-misbehave-amongst.html">Turkish males misbehave amongst scantily clad female beach-goers</a><br />
<a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/02/turkish-sexual-morals-and-prostitution.html">Turkish sexual morals and prostitution</a><br />
<a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/03/hollow-secularism-turkish-males-cannot.html">Hollow secularism: Turkish males cannot share hotel room with non married female</a><br />
<a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/03/rape-scandal-in-turkish-army-stationed.html">Rape scandal in Turkish army stationed in their sandjak in occupied Cyprus</a>
Nikephoroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305429343777161682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221615242186950799.post-57248240438265201642013-03-30T21:54:00.000-07:002013-03-30T21:54:05.446-07:00Rape scandal in Turkish army stationed in their sandjak in occupied CyprusThose who follow the Turkish military, should know that it is really a criminal organization poses as an Armed Forces. <br />
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<a href="http://www.lgcnews.com/turkish-army-in-rape-scandal/">LGC News: Turkish army in rape scandal</a></blockquote>
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<b>Staff Major Oktay, remained under arrest while the charges which related to incidents that occurred five years ago were being investigated. He was serving in the 28th Cyprus mechanised Infantry Division and used to order soldiers and non-commissioned officers to his room where he would indulge in massaging them.</b> He then went further with the unsuspecting soldiers.</blockquote>
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The soldiers involved kept these activities secret out of shame and fear of their commander. ...</blockquote>
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At the prompting of Captain Suleyman, four of the soldiers who had been raped eventually filed a complaint with the military prosecutor. Six more soldiers also complained, saying that they had been deeply scarred psychologically, by their experiences.</blockquote>
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However, Staff Major Oktay denied all the charges against him and instead said that he was the victim of a conspiracy. <b>At the end of the trial, he was found guilty and sentenced to 2 years and 3 months imprisonment.</b> He was also discharged from the army.</blockquote>
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Related blog posts on the sexual deviancy of Turks:<br />
<a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/02/turkish-males-misbehave-amongst.html">Turkish males misbehave amongst scantily clad female beach-goers</a><br />
<a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/02/turkish-sexual-morals-and-prostitution.html">Turkish sexual morals and prostitution</a><br />
<a href="http://koreaofmideast.blogspot.com/2013/03/hollow-secularism-turkish-males-cannot.html">Hollow secularism: Turkish males cannot share hotel room with non married female</a>
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