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		<title>Turkey, Friend or Foe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kenneth R. Timmerman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/turkish-prime-minister-turkey.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247168" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/turkish-prime-minister-turkey-436x350.jpg" alt="turkish-prime-minister-turkey" width="369" height="296" /></a>As the battle for the Syrian border city of Kobani raged and prospects of an ISIS-led massacre of thousands of innocent civilians loomed this fall, the BBC interviewed the vice-chairman of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP Party in Ankara.</p>
<p>Why hadn’t Turkey responded to NATO’s request to launch joint military operations to halt the ISIS assault on Kobani? How could Turkey just sit back and watch so many innocent civilians die, BBC correspondent Jonathan Marcus asked.</p>
<p>The replies from Yasin Aktay are telling.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why is Kobani the most important problem?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;There is no tragedy in Kobani as cried out by the terrorist PKK. There is a war between two terrorist groups. You mean we should… favor one terrorist organization over another?&#8221;</p>
<p>The AKP deputy leader <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29555999"><span style="color: #0433ff;">went on to explain</span></a> the calculus of death as seen from Turkey’s point of view. &#8220;Less than 1000 people have been killed in Kobani, but more than 300,000 people have been killed in Syria. Which is more important?”</p>
<p>Aktay’s remarks reveal much more than just a callous disregard for the Kurds, who comprise roughly one-third of Turkey’s overall population, or for the popular Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which broke off peace talks with the Turkish government in October to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/world/middleeast/kurdish-rebels-assail-turkish-inaction-on-isis-as-peril-to-peace-talks.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">protest Turkey’s stranglehold</span></a> over the Kurds in Kobani.</p>
<p>According to Vice-president Joe Biden, <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/biden-says-erdogan-admitted-isil-mistake.aspx?PageID=238&amp;NID=72530&amp;NewsCatID=359"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Erdogan himself admitted</span></a> that Turkey had ordered border guards to turn a blind eye as new ISIS recruits flooded across Turkey’s borders to join the battle against Assad in Syria. (Okay, when Erdogan was informed of Biden’s comments, he hit the roof <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/turkey-erdogan-biden-apologize-apology-isis-2014-10"><span style="color: #0433ff;">and demanded that “loose-lips” Uncle Joe retract them</span></a>).</p>
<p>In response to a Harvard University student’s question whether the U.S. could have intervened earlier in Syria, Biden went even further:</p>
<p>“[O]ur allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria. The Turks were great friends – and I have the greatest relationship with Erdogan, which I just spent a lot of time with – the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. What were they doing? They were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad except that the people who were being supplied were Al Nusra and Al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.</p>
<p>“Now you think I’m exaggerating – take a look. Where did all of this go? So now what’s happening? All of a sudden everybody’s awakened because this outfit called ISIL which was Al Qaeda in Iraq, which when they were essentially thrown out of Iraq, found open space in territory in eastern Syria, work with Al Nusra who we declared a terrorist group early on and we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them. So what happened? Now all of a sudden – I don’t want to be too facetious – but they had seen the Lord. Now we have – the President’s been able to put together a coalition of our Sunni neighbors, because America can’t once again go into a Muslim nation and be seen as the aggressor – it has to be led by Sunnis to go and attack a Sunni organization.” [h/t to Mark Langfan for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npd4OSPjrt0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">excerpting this Q&amp;A</span></a> from Biden’s speech]</p>
<p>But Erdogan’s treachery goes much deeper.</p>
<p>Kurdish sources tell me that the initial Turkey-al Nusra front agreement was made more than two years ago, and included Turkey’s agreement to help smuggle arms to the Syrian rebels from Benghazi and other parts of Libya.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, Turkish and Qatari intelligence officials met with senior ISIS leaders in Jordan to plot the take-over of Mosul and the predominantly Christian Nineveh Plain.</p>
<p>Also at the meeting was a representative of Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) president Massoud Barzani, who has worked closely with the Turkish government and has spearheaded massive Turkish investment in northern Iraq. Barzani apparently believed ISIS would stop their advance after seizing Mosul and the Nineveh Plain, and ordered his peshmerga fighters to withdraw rather than fight the ISIS advance.</p>
<p>The most dramatic events occurred in Sinjar, when 13,000 peshmerga fighters mysteriously “melted away” in August rather than confront an ISIS assault force of around 1000 men. While much of the national media focused on the plight of the Yazidis, a Shiite sect considered heretical by most Sunnis, ISIS continued to march eastward through the Nineveh plain, massacring the Christians who failed to flee.</p>
<p>Not until they began threatening Erbil, the capital of the KRG, did Barzani apparently realize he had been duped and called on the United States to supply heavy weapons so the peshmerga could halt the ISIS advance. As <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/31/kurds-accuse-turkish-government-supporting-isis-278776.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Kobani was falling</span></a>, Barzani authorized Kurdish fighters from the PKK and <a href="http://kentimmerman.com/news/2007_1017-pkk-pjak.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">PJAK, who had bases in northern Iraq</span></a>, to transit through his territory to relieve the besieged city.</p>
<p>A former ISIS communications technician, using the pseudonum “Sherko Omer,” recently sat down with Newsweek reporter Barney Guiton and spilled the beans on Turkey’s deep relationship to the Islamic State.</p>
<p>ISIS fighters traveled regularly back and forth from their stronghold in Raqaa, Syria into Turkey to acquire supplies and new fighters. “ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks,” Omer said.</p>
<p>It was imperative for the Islamic State to establish a secure supply line through Turkey in order to bypass areas in northern Syria controlled by Kurdish fighters from the Democratic Union Party (YPG), which is allied to the PKK.</p>
<p>“ISIS saw the Turkish army as its ally especially when it came to attacking the Kurds in Syria,” Omer said. “The Kurds were the common enemy for both ISIS and Turkey.”</p>
<p>“I have connected ISIS field captains and commanders from Syria with people in Turkey on innumerable occasions,” Omer said.</p>
<p>In the same report, a YPG <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/isis-and-turkey-cooperate-destroy-kurds-former-isis-member-reveals-turkish-282920"><span style="color: #0433ff;">spokesman told Newsweek</span></a> that Turkey was providing ISIS with arms and ammunition, in addition to allowing Islamic State fighters to cross unimpeded back and forth between Turkey and Syria.</p>
<p>His accusations were repeated in Berlin Claudia Roth, a deputy speaker of the German parliament and a Green Party MP.</p>
<p>President Erdogan’s “dealings with the ISIS are unacceptable,” <a href="http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/12102014"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Roth said.</span></a> “I could not believe that Turkey harbors an ISIS militant camp in Istanbul. Turkey has also allowed weapons to be transported into Syria through its borders. Also that the ISIS has been able to sell its oil via Turkey is extraordinary.”</p>
<p>Turkish opposition politician Ali Ediboglu <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/business/2014/06/turkey-syria-isis-selling-smuggled-oil.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">claimed in June</span></a> that ISIS had already exported oil worth $800 million through Turkey through special pipelines and convoys of trucks, without any opposition from the Turkish authorities.</p>
<p>(For more on Turkey’s support for ISIS read <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/14486/turkey-isis"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Daniel Pipes’ summary</span></a> of what Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals have been writing, and this <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-bordering-on-terrorism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">excellent if lengthy report</span></a> from the FDD’s Jonathan Schanzer.)</p>
<p>President Obama once named Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan among his top five <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/obama-names-turkish-pmerdogan-among-trusted-friends.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nid=11897"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“best friends”</span></a> on the world stage, “an outstanding partner and an outstanding friend.”</p>
<p>No longer. According to Erdogan, the two no longer chat on the phone. The time of Obama <a href="http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/03/26/obama-hearts-turkish-leader-erdogan-as-he-oppresses-his-own-people-and-stabs-america-in-the-back/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“hearting”</span></a> Erdogan are over.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/no-longer-talk-obama-turkeys-erdogan-100909241.html">Erdogan says</a></span> their falling out began in September 2013, when Obama failed to order unilateral military operations against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad once he faced resistance in the U.S. Congress.</p>
<p>If that’s the case, why is Obama letting Erdogan off the hook for his support for ISIS?</p>
<p>It’s time to let Turkey choose: they can continue to be a NATO ally and join us in the fight against ISIS and other enemies of freedom. Or they can continue to support ISIS and suffer the consequences. Which is it?</p>
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		<title>The Real War on Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their oppression under Islam intensifies.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/th.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-246566" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/th.jpg" alt="th" width="300" height="203" /></a>It’s been a busy week for the oppression of women under Islam.</p>
<p>A day or two before Americans sat down to turkey dinner on Thanksgiving, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan – President Obama’s best friend in the Middle East, a man who has made it <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/09/there-is-no-moderate-islam.html">abundantly clear</a> how he feels about moderate Islam and who has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/29/turkey-women-laugh_n_5630416.html">warned</a> that women shouldn’t laugh in public – further endeared himself to feminists everywhere at a summit hosted by an Istanbul-based women’s group when he <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-women/">declared</a> that a woman cannot do every job that a man can do because “it is against her delicate nature.” He dug the hole deeper for himself by <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkish-president-equality-between-men-and-women-is-against-nature-9879993.html">claiming</a> that Islam dictated motherhood to be the primary role of women. However, he insisted that his government has always supported equal rights for women and always would.</p>
<p>If that’s true, then perhaps his government could turn its attention to the <a href="http://m.clarionproject.org/news/turkey-epidemic-murders-women-seeking-divorce">epidemic</a> of honor murders being committed against Turkish women, many of whom were murdered for seeking to divorce their husbands. Last month in Istanbul, a young mother in the middle of divorce proceedings was <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/woman-murdered-by-husband-in-istanbul-.aspx?PageID=238&amp;NID=73418&amp;NewsCatID=341">stabbed to death </a>by her husband in front of their child. Her murder is the latest of 287 cases documented by a Turkish human rights and advocacy group known as “We Will Stop Women Murders.”</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/19/turkish-women-divorce_n_6133470.html">reported by <em>Huffington Post</em></a>, the numbers are up from 238 last year, including the slaying of a 30-year old mother of two seeking a divorce. Her abusive husband simply walked into the hair salon where she worked and stabbed her to death without a word. This was after having abused her, forcing a miscarriage, and holding her hostage in their home.</p>
<p>Despite its modern reputation, Turkey has some of the highest levels of violence against women in Europe (as well as some of the lowest levels of <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/eu-urges-members-to-stop-stalling-with-turkey-1412764978">female participation in politics</a> and education). Rights activists claim that violence against women has skyrocketed since 2003 when the Islamist AKP party came into power. According to the Turkish Ministry of Justice, from 2003 until 2010, there was a 1,400 percent increase in the number of murders of women.</p>
<p>“The AKP government came under harsh criticism after the release of this information,” <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/09/turkeywomenmurder.html">says Pinar Tremblay</a>, a Turkish journalist. “So in a last-ditch effort to save its reputation, [after 2010] it started altering the numbers.” The government simply did not report on thousands of women who were murdered, Tremblay says.</p>
<p>She puts forth three reasons why have the numbers increased so dramatically. First, the value of women in Turkish society has always been low, but it has sunk even lower in the ten years under the AKP. Second is the notion of honor; Turkish society traditionally blames the woman for a variety of offenses to honor such as seeking a divorce, and the harm done to a man’s reputation is considered a partial or complete justification for murder. As the Freedom Center’s own Robert Spencer <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/09/does-islam-justify-honor-killings">writes</a>, “No passage in the Koran discusses honor killings, but Muslim clerics justify them and secular Muslims either do not punish them or pass laws to mitigate punishment for them. With this, Muslims make honor killings a part of Islam.”</p>
<p>The third reason is leniency in punishment for honor violence. “If the murderer behaves properly, he can receive amnesty in a year or two,” says Tremblay. “This leniency feeds from the fact that a woman’s life is worthless in Turkey and encourages other murderers. Indeed, there have been police reports that perpetrators have Googled possible punishments they might receive before killing their woman,” she added.</p>
<p>Meanwhile in India, TV presenter and actress Gauhar Khan was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/12/01/tv-presenter-assaulted-for-showing-to-much-skin-report-says/?intcmp=features">assaulted</a> last week by an audience member who thought her clothing bared too much skin. “Being a Muslim woman, she should not have worn such a short dress,” the man <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horrified-tv-presenter-attacked-live-4726226">reportedly said</a> when arrested for assault.</p>
<p>But Khan’s slap on the cheek was a slap on the wrist compared to Bollywood actress Veena Malik, who was <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/pakistan-sentences-bollywood-actress-to-26-years-in-prison-for-marriage-scene-depicting-the-prophet-muhammads-daughter-130370/"><span><span><span>sentenced</span></span></span></a><span><span> to 26 years in prison for blasphemy by Pakistan’s anti-terrorism court for appearing in a televised wedding scene based on the marriage of the Muslim prophet Muhammad’s daughter. Depictions of Muhammad are considered blasphemous under Islam. Malik has been a target of Islamic fundamentalists ever since a 2011 <span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MyoBmGF_g"><span><span>video interview</span></span></a></span> in which she boldly lashed out at a mufti’s disapproval of her un-Islamic dress and behavior.<span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span>The </span></span></span>court also convicted Malik’s husband and the host of the show which aired the offending scene. Both were sentenced to 26 years in jail as well, and all three will have to pay an additional fine of nearly $50,000, surrender their passports and sell their properties. “The malicious acts of the proclaimed offenders ignited the sentiments of all the Muslims of the country,” the court order read, “and hurt their feelings, which cannot be taken lightly and there is need to strictly curb such tendency.” </span></span></p>
<p>Such mistreatment of women isn’t limited to Islamic territories. In England (although some could argue that England itself is now an Islamic territory), news broke last week that thirteen Somali men were <a href="https://bbc1.azurewebsites.net/news/uk-england-bristol-30095960">convicted</a> of a string of child sex abuse crimes in Bristol, and one of the convicted told the court that sharing girls for sex “was part of Somali culture” and “a religious requirement.” To <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/uk-muslim-rape-gang-member-says-raping-girls-a-religious-requirement">quote</a> Spencer again, “The savage exploitation of girls and young women is, unfortunately, a cross-cultural phenomenon, but only in Islamic law does it carry divine sanction”:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general. The rape of captive women is also sanctioned in Islamic tradition.</p></blockquote>
<p>The rape of captive women is the ongoing nightmare currently faced by the thousands of Kurdish and Yazidi women <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=21795">enslaved</a> by the Islamic State. The practice “accords with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality,” as Spencer <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/uk-muslim-rape-gang-member-says-raping-girls-a-religious-requirement">noted</a> in relation to a female Kuwaiti politician who <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-kuwaiti-activist-i-hope-that.html">spoke out</a> in favor of the sexual slavery of non-Muslim women.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in the Western media, the focus on the oppression of women is reserved for such idiocy as the “unattainable” <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/disney-princess-real-waistline_n_6076634.html">waistlines on Disney princesses</a>. Now that’s a <em>real</em> war on women.</p>
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		<title>The Nazi Romance With Islam Has Some Lessons for the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mikics]]></dc:creator>
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<div class="story-category">Both Hitler and Himmler had a soft spot for Islam. Hitler several times fantasized that, if the Saracens had not been stopped at the Battle of Tours, Islam would have spread through the European continent—and that would have been a good thing, since “Jewish Christianity” wouldn’t have gone on to poison Europe. Christianity doted on weakness and suffering, while Islam extolled strength, Hitler believed. Himmler in a January 1944 speech called Islam “a practical and attractive religion for soldiers,” with its promise of paradise and beautiful women for brave martyrs after their death. “This is the kind of language a soldier understands,” Himmler gushed.</div>
<p>Surely, the Nazi leaders thought, Muslims would see that the Germans were their blood brothers: loyal, iron-willed, and most important, convinced that Jews were the evil that most plagued the world. “Do you recognize him, the fat, curly-haired Jew who deceives and rules the whole world and who steals the land of the Arabs?” demanded one of the Nazi pamphlets dropped over North Africa (a million copies of it were printed). “The Jew,” the pamphlet explained, was the evil King Dajjal from Islamic tradition, who in the world’s final days was supposed to lead 70,000 Jews from Isfahan in apocalyptic battle against Isa—often identified with Jesus, but according to the Reich Propaganda Ministry none other than Hitler himself. Germany produced reams of leaflets like this one, often quoting the Quran on the subject of Jewish treachery.</p>
<p>It is not surprising, then, that there are those today who draw a direct line between modern Jew-hatred in the Islamic world and the Nazis. A poster currently at Columbus Circle’s subway entrance proclaims loudly that “Jew-hatred is in the Quran.” The poster features a photograph of Hitler with the notoriously anti-Jewish Mufti al-Husaini of Palestine, who is erroneously labeled “the leader of the Muslim world.” The truth is considerably more complex. The mufti made himself useful to the Nazis as a propagandist, but he had little influence in most Muslim regions. Few Muslims believed Nazi claims that Hitler was the protector of Islam, much less the Twelfth Imam, as one Reich pamphlet suggested.</p>
<p>The Nazis’ anti-Jewish propaganda no doubt attracted many Muslims, as historian Jeffrey Herf has documented, but they balked at believing that Hitler would be their savior or liberator. Instead, they sensed correctly that the Nazis wanted Muslims to fight and die for Germany. As Rommel approached Cairo, Egyptians started to get nervous. They knew that the Germans were not coming to liberate them, but instead wanted to make the Muslim world part of their own burgeoning empire. In the end, more Muslims wound up fighting for the Allies than for the Axis.</p>
<p>Hitler’s failed effort to put Muslim boots on the ground still stands as the most far-reaching Western attempt to use Islam to win a war. Such is the judgment of David Motadel, the author of a new, authoritative book, <em><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724600" rel="external">Islam and Nazi Germany’s War</a> .</em> Motadel’s detailed and fascinating explanation of how and why the Nazis failed to get Muslims on their side is a must-read for serious students of World War II, and it has an important message as well for our own policy in the Middle East.</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>To grasp why the Nazis had such high hopes for Muslim collaboration—and why their hopes failed—we need to go back to the great war that made Hitler the fanatical monster he was. One hundred years ago, a few months into World War I, Germany looked like it might be in trouble. The German offensive had failed to break through at Ypres after a month of bloody fighting. The waves of German soldiers stumbling through no-man’s land slowed to a stop. The kaiser’s army was exhausted, and its commanders suddenly realized that the quick Western Front victory they had dreamed of was impossible. Meanwhile, Russia was massing troops around Warsaw, and the tsar had just declared war on the Ottoman Empire.</p>
<p>There was one bright spot, though. On Nov. 11, 1914, the highest religious authority of the Ottoman caliphate, Sheikh al-Islam Ürgüplü Hayri, issued a call for worldwide jihad against Russia, Britain, and France. Suddenly, the Great War was a holy war. Surely, the Germans dreamed, Muslims would join their side en masse and turn the tide of battle.</p>
<p>In the early years of World War I the German Reich caught Islam fever: Muslims became the great Eastern hope against the Entente. Helmuth von Moltke, chief of the German general staff, planned to “awaken the fanaticism of Islam” in the French and British colonies, making the Muslim masses rise up against their European masters. <a href="http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/141788/hitler-jews-oppenheim" rel="external">Max von Oppenheim</a> , the German diplomat and orientalist, described Islam as “one of our most important weapons” in his famous position paper of October 1914. Oppenheim wanted to spark a Muslim revolt stretching from India to Morocco that Germany could use for its own purposes. Germany just needed to get the message across, Oppenheim insisted: Russia, Britain, and France were the oppressors of Muslims, whereas the Germans would liberate them.</p>
<p>The German strategy didn’t work. Instead, Britain and France won the game when they capitalized on the Arab uprising against a crumbling Ottoman Empire. T.E. Lawrence, rather than the kaiser, inspired the Arabs. After the war, Britain and France sliced up the Middle East pie between them in the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916.</p>
<p>Germany tried once again to mobilize Islam in WWII. Astonishingly, in 1940 Oppenheim, at that point 80 years old, championed the same plan that had failed so badly in the previous war. Even more surprising, Hitler and Himmler warmly embraced the part-Jewish Oppenheim’s idea: They too thought that Islam would help bring about a Nazi triumph.</p>
<p>“German officials would always refer to global Islam, to pan Islam,” Motadel told me over the phone from his home in Cambridge, England, where he is Research Fellow in History at the University of Cambridge’s Gonville and Caius College. The Nazis spoke of the Muslims as a “bloc” that could be “activated” against the British, the French, and the Soviets. Their belief that Islam was monolithic led them to ignore differences of region, sect, and nationality, which helped to ensure the failure of their efforts.</p>
<p>As Motadel documents, those efforts were indeed considerable. Germans sought out imams who would issue fatwas for their side, and they told their soldiers to be especially careful of religious sensibilities when traveling through Muslim territory. They gave special privileges to Muslims who joined the Wehrmacht: The Nazi leadership even allowed them to follow Muslim dietary laws. Astonishingly, German forces in the East permitted Muslims to practice both circumcision and ritual slaughter, proving more liberal on these two issues than many Europeans are today. At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the Germans murdered many Muslims because they were mistaken for Jews: They didn’t realize that Muslims were also circumcised. But Berlin soon corrected the error and cautioned troops in the East to make sure to treat Muslims with respect, since they were Germany’s potential allies. In December 1942 Hitler decided he wanted to recruit all-Muslim units in the Caucasus. He distrusted Georgians and Armenians, but the Muslims, he said, were true soldiers.</p>
<p>The Germans assumed that the Muslim world would naturally flock to the Nazi banner, since Muslims like Germans knew that Jews were the enemy, and since Germany was offering them freedom from France, Britain, and Russia. But for the most part, they were wrong. Muslims only embraced the Nazi cause in places where they were desperate to arm themselves against local persecutors, the Crimea, the Caucasus, and the Balkans. In most of the Muslim world, Hitler failed to attract a large following.</p>
<p>North Africa was a miserable failure for German recruitment. “230,000 Muslims fought for the Free French against the Axis from North Africa,” Motadel pointed out to me in our interview, far more than those who enlisted with Germany. The Germans had their millions of leaflets, but they were not the only propagandists in the field. “The Free French mobilized them with anti-colonial rhetoric. The British and French were the ruling powers; they had much more control over propaganda.”</p>
<p>The East was much more favorable than North Africa to the German recruitment drive. The Muslims of the Caucasus and the Crimea had many reasons to choose Germany over Stalin’s Soviet Union. “In the East the Muslim population had really suffered under Stalin, economically and religiously,” Motadel remarked to me. They had nothing to lose, they thought, by siding with “Adolf Effendi.” The Crimean Tatars took a notorious place among Germany’s most loyal and ruthless battalions, fighting both in the East and, near the end of the war, in Romania. The Tatars made the wrong choice: Stalin mercilessly deported many of them to his gulags after the war.</p>
<p>In the Balkans many Muslims turned to Germany in the middle of a brutal civil war, fleeing the rampages of the Croatian Ustase. The infamous all-Muslim Handžar battalion of the SS, organized in the Balkans late in the war, committed many atrocities. In Serbian areas, noted one British officer, the Handžar “massacres all civil population without mercy or regard for age or sex.”</p>
<p>The Nazis made sure, with few exceptions, that the Nuremberg laws could be applied only to Jews, not to those other Semites, the Arabs, nor to Turks and Persians—which paradoxically allowed certain communities of Jews in Muslim regions to also survive the Shoah. In Crimea, two puzzled officers of the Wehrmacht, Fritz Donner and Ernst Seifert, reported on “Near Eastern racial groups of a non-Semitic character who, strangely, have adopted the Jewish faith,” while also noting that “a large part of these Jews on the Crimea is of Mohammedan faith.” What to do? In the end the Reich ruled that the Karaites, traditionally seen as a Turkic people, could be spared, while the Krymchaks should be murdered as Jews, though both these Crimean tribes followed Jewish law. In the northern Caucasus, the Nazis decided that the Judeo-Tats, a tiny Torah-observant island in a sea of Muslims, had only their religion in common with Jews. In effect, they became honorary Muslims and were saved from death. The Karaites were close to the Muslim Crimean Tatars, and the Judeo-Tats also had deep ties to their Muslim neighbors. It was their supposed affinity to Islam that saved the lives of these observant Jews. In these cases the Nazi wish to cultivate the Muslim world even affected to a small degree their anti-Semitic policy—to the Jews’ advantage.</p>
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<p>Hitler cultivated many parts of the Muslim world, but he was fanatically enthusiastic about only one country: Turkey (the Nazis officially decided in 1936 that the Turks were Aryans). Stefan Ihrig’s brilliant new book <em><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674368378" rel="external">Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination</a> </em> demonstrates convincingly that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s conquest of Turkey was the most important model for the Nazis’ remaking of Germany, far more so than Mussolini’s 1922 March on Rome, which is usually cited as Hitler’s main inspiration. Turkey had taken control of its destiny in manly fashion, in proud defiance of the international community—if only Germany would do the same! So argued many on the German right, including Hitler, during the 10 years between Atatürk’s victory and the Nazi seizure of power.</p>
<p>The victorious Entente had vastly curtailed Ottoman territory under the Treaty of Sèvres after WWI, just as the Treaty of Versailles shrank German territory. But the new nation of Turkey threw off the victors’ shackles and, after Mustafa Kemal (later renamed Atatürk) marched from Ankara westward, the Turks won the right to a homeland in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. The Weimar Republic’s newspapers obsessively celebrated the Turks’ victory and endorsed their claims to the disputed region of Hatay (the Turks’ Alsace-Lorraine), portraying the Turks as more advanced than the Germans, trailblazers on the path to strong nationhood. “If we want to be free, then we will have no choice but to follow the Turkish example in one way or another,” the right-wing military man and journalist Hans Tröbst announced in the newspaper <em>Heimatland</em> in 1923. Nearly every item in Hitler’s playbook can be found in such Weimar-era endorsements of Atatürk: All Turkey had mobilized for the war; strong faith in their leader had saved them.</p>
<p>Ihrig argues that the Turkish treatment of minorities, both under Atatürk and earlier, was the true precursor for Hitler’s murderous policy in the East. Those “bloodsuckers and parasites,” the Greeks and Armenians, had been “eradicated” by the Turks, Tröbst explained in <em>Heimatland</em>. “Gentle measures—that history has always shown—will not do in such cases.” The Turks had achieved “the purification of a nation of its foreign elements on a grand scale.” He added that “Almost all of those of foreign background in the area of combat had to die; their number is not put too low with 500,000.” Here was a chilling endorsement of genocide, and one that surely did not escape Hitler’s eye. Shortly after his articles appeared, Hitler invited Tröbst to give a speech on Turkey to the SA.</p>
<p>From 1923 on, Hitler consistently praised Atatürk in his own speeches as well. Berlin, like Istanbul, was cosmopolitan and decadent. Munich, site of Hitler’s beer-hall putsch, was the place for a German “Ankara government.” When Hitler seized power in 1933 his <em>Völkischer Beobachter</em> cited Atatürk’s victory as the “star in the darkness” that had shone for the beleaguered Nazis in 1923, after the putsch’s failure. Turkey was “proof of what a real man could do”—a man like Atatürk, or Hitler.</p>
<p>The Third Reich produced many idolizing biographies of Atatürk. Six years after the Turkish leader’s death, in late 1944, a delusional Hitler was still dreaming of a postwar alliance between Turkey and Germany. He never got his wish. During the war, Turkey, as a neutral power, kept its distance from the Nazis until it finally declared war against Germany in February 1945.</p>
<p>In Turkey, criticizing Atatürk can still get you three years in jail, though the country’s increasingly <a href="http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/37048/fantasia" rel="external">unhinged</a> President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke the law himself last year when he called Atatürk a drunkard. While Erdogan wants to reverse his predecessor’s program for secularizing Turkey, he appears to be imitating Atatürk’s extravagant cult of personality along with his habit of demonizing his enemies. But while Atatürk disdained Hitler’s anti-Semitism, Erdogan is obsessed with Jews. The 2014 Gaza operation, he has <a href="http://forward.com/articles/202423/turkey-leader-slams-israel-attack-on-gaza-as-more/" rel="external">remarked</a> , was worse than anything Hitler ever did, and the Israelis have been committing “systematic genocide every day” since 1948. Perhaps if Erdogan had been in power in the 1940s, the Nazis would have found the Muslim ally they so desperately sought.</p>
<p>Weaponizing Islam has often been a temptation for the United States, just as it was for Germany. In its battle against Moscow, Washington recruited Islamic leaders after WWII, most famously Said Ramadan, a major figure in the Muslim Brotherhood. The United States even smiled on Saudi Arabia’s funding of radical Islamist organizations, hoping that religion would serve as a bulwark against Soviet Communism. Then the Muslim Brotherhood killed U.S. ally Anwar Sadat, and its follower Ayman al-Zawahiri became, along with Osama Bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaida. We supported the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, until the Mujahedeen turned into the Taliban.</p>
<p>We are still trying to turn the Muslim world to our own purposes, but this time by supporting Shiite against Sunni. In addition to courting Erdogan, President Barack Obama hopes to make use of Iran as a stabilizing regional force. In his most recent personal letter to Ayatollah Khamanei, Obama seems to have made a promise: We will repeal sanctions, fight against ISIS, and preserve the rule of Iran’s client Bashar al Assad as long as Iran agrees to a deal on nuclear weapons. But what will the United States get in return? In the best-case scenario—which is far from assured—Iran’s bomb-making abilities will be hindered by the deal they sign. But even an Iran without the bomb cannot be relied on to make the Middle East less conflict-riven, unless we are aiming at the kind of stability famously mocked by Tacitus: They make a desert and call it peace. Iranian actions speak for themselves: support for Hezbollah, with its hundred thousand weapons aimed at Israel, and support for Assad, who has massacred his people endlessly and thrown massive numbers of them into concentration camps. Anyone who looks at the Syrian defector “Caesar” ’s <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/31/syrian-defector-assad-poised-to-torture-and-murder-150-000-more.html" rel="external">photographs</a> of the thousands of starved, mutilated bodies produced by Syria’s bloodthirsty optometrist-in-chief, which are now on permanent exhibition at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, a few blocks from the White House that has refused to grasp their meaning, will ask the same question: Don’t these Arab bodies, resembling so exactly the bodies of Jews at Auschwitz, have the same call on our conscience?</p>
<p>One thing is certain: If Khamanei and Rouhani are given a larger role in the Middle East, they will not serve U.S. interests, nor those of the majority of Muslims. They will serve their own interests, which are inimical to ours. We still have not learned the major lesson of 20th-century history so adeptly conveyed by Motadel and Ihrig: Western leaders who try to get Islam on their side through propaganda and favors will be unpleasantly surprised.</p>
<p class="story-author-bio"><em>David Mikics is the author, most recently, of</em> <a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724723">Slow Reading in a Hurried Age</a><em>. He lives in Brooklyn and Houston, where he is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston.</em></p>
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		<title>Should a NATO Member be Hosting a Terrorist Group?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The UK is trying to get rid of its Muslim Brotherhood HQ, but <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187896#.VHX_AIuooeV">there&#8217;s one NATO member that&#8217;s happy to host</a> and sponsor a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group.</p>
<blockquote><p>Israel wants NATO to take steps against Turkey for allowing genocidal terror group Hamas to set up its headquarters in Istanbul.</p>
<p>Yisrael Hayom reported Wednesday that Israel sent NATO official messages through several channels, in which it stated that it is unacceptable for a NATO member state to have ties with a terror group.</p>
<p>The head of the Turkish HQ is reportedly Salah al-Arouri, a terrorist whom Israel accuses of a long list of attacks.</p>
<p>A senior Israeli source said that the operation of the Hamas HQ from Turkey was undoubtedly authorized by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.</p></blockquote>
<p>Erdogan has also served as a state sponsor of ISIS and NATO appears to be willing to overlook Turkey&#8217;s collaboration with a terrorist group that NATO is at war with. So Hamas will get an easy pass.</p>
<p>But this does highlight the problem with having Turkey in NATO. It&#8217;s like bringing in a Warsaw Pact country into NATO under a Communist government during the Cold War. It makes no sense and it undermines the core function and integrity of the organization.</p>
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		<title>Turkey to Teach Muslim Discovery of America in Schools</title>
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<p>The USSR claimed to have invented absolutely everything. Soviet children were taught that everything from the locomotive to the airplane had been invented in Russia. Muslims<a href="http://weaselzippers.us/205826-turkish-president-erdogan-pissed-everyone-is-laughing-at-him-for-saying-muslims-discovered-america/"> can&#8217;t seem to stop jumping headlong</a> into the same xenophobic delusional propaganda.</p>
<blockquote><p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday hit back at ridicule of his claim that Islamic explorers discovered the Americas three centuries before Columbus, accusing his Muslim critics of lacking “self-confidence”.</p>
<p>In an aggressive rebuttal of the criticism heaped in some quarters on his comments, Erdogan also suggested that the purported “discovery” of the Americas by Muslims should be taught in schools.</p>
<p>“A big responsibility falls on the shoulders of the national education ministry and YOK (higher education board) on this issue,” Erdogan said at a ceremony in Ankara.</p>
<p>“If the history of science is written objectively, it will be seen that Islamic geography’s contribution to science is much more than what’s known,” Erdogan said in televised comments.</p></blockquote>
<p>Muslims invented geography. And science. Also making stuff up. Muslim explorers discovered America and immediately flew the planes they had just invented into it.</p>
<blockquote><p>Erdogan, a pious Muslim who has been in power for more than a decade, stirred up controversy on Saturday when he claimed the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus.</p>
<p>He cited as evidence for his claim that “Columbus mentioned the existence of a mosque on a hill on the Cuban coast.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The AFP doesn&#8217;t bother to clarify that Columbus was talking about <a href="http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/did-columbus-find-an-ancient-mosque-in-cuba">a hill that looked like a mosqu</a>e, not a mosque. The indigenous Cubans engaged in ancestor worship. They were quite obviously not Muslims. If Muslims had encountered them, they would have beheaded them.</p>
<p>But congratulations to Erdogan who after having picked fights with</p>
<p>1. Egypt</p>
<p>2. Syria</p>
<p>3. Cyprus</p>
<p>4. Israel</p>
<p>has really gone out of his way to p<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187526#.VG7bo_mooeU">ick a fight with Cuba</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if Israel had destroyed 800 homes in Gaza instead of the Egyptians? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245399" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki-409x350.jpg" alt="u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki" width="312" height="267" /></a>Let us engage in a brief thought experiment. Imagine three US service members disembarking off their ship docked in the Israeli port of Haifa. They paint the town but are suddenly and unexpectedly surrounded by a group of 12 or so hooligans, who yell epithets at them, call them “murderers,” throw garbage at them, rough them up and then place bags over their heads. Imagine further that the hoodlums are caught and arrested by Israeli authorities but are inexplicably released shortly thereafter.</p>
<p>Let us engage in another thought experiment. Imagine that Israel, under the pretext of ensuring its security, dynamites eight-hundred “Palestinian” homes. The Israelis argue that smuggling tunnels under some of those homes warrant drastic action and announce their intention to construct a barrier where those homes once stood, displacing ten-thousand residents.</p>
<p>These two incidents actually occurred but not in Israel. On November 12, in a sickening display of brute thuggery, three US sailors in Istanbul were <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/politics/turkey-navy-sailors-bags-over-heards/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">assaulted</span></a> by a group of Turkish nationalists. They were roughed up, humiliated, had bags stuffed over their heads and chased to chants of “Yankee go home.” Some of the suspects were apprehended and despite the fact that they showed little remorse, were inexplicably <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/13/turkish-nationalist-group-defiant-after-attack-on-us-navy-sailors/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">released</span></a> by Turkish authorities.</p>
<p>The second incident, involving the wanton <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/world/middleeast/egypt-sinai-peninsula-gaza-buffer-zone.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">destruction</span></a> of some eight-hundred homes and the displacement of some ten-thousand residents occurred in the Egyptian controlled part of Rafah that straddles the border between Sinai and the Hamas enclave of Gaza. It seems that the Egyptians had had enough of Hamas’s shenanigans and decided to act resolutely after as many as 31 Egyptian soldiers were killed in an attack that the Egyptian government blamed on Hamas.</p>
<p>Now let us return to our thought experiment. What was the State Department’s reaction to these two occurrences? In the latter example, there was simply no reaction, only silence. There were no condemnations from John Kerry, no claims by Jen Psaki that such drastic measures were disproportionate and no protests from Obama shills Ben Rhodes, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/lecturing-us-on-security-as-the-rockets-fly-in/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Phillip Gordon</span></a> and Josh Earnest that such sweeping actions amount to collective punishment, are a source of regional instability and present obstacles to peace.</p>
<p>In the former case, the State Department did issue a condemnation but that’s as far as it went. The hooligans responsible for the cowardly attack took their cues directly from their anti-American, Islamist government. During his 12-year reign, President Recep Erdogan worked tirelessly to create a toxic environment conducive to such base anti-American displays. More astonishingly was the muted response from the State Department after the charges against those responsible for the assault were <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/assault-sailors-highlights-turkish-anger-us/2519444.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dropped</span></a>. The lawless message Turkey is conveying to the United States is clear; your servicemen and women can be humiliated and assaulted on Turkish soil with impunity.</p>
<p>Had any of these incidents occurred in Israel, the State Department would have been up in arms. If there’s any doubt about that assertion, consider Jen Psaki’s comments concerning Israel’s decision to <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-condemns-terrorist-home-demolition-directive/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">demolish the home</span></a> of a terrorist responsible for crushing a pedestrian with a stolen excavator in August.</p>
<p>Psaki condemned the Israeli decision stating that it amounted to “collective punishment.” In Psaki’s eyes, the destruction of 800 Rafah homes, most of which have no connection to illicit activity, suits the State Department just fine but the targeted demolition of a single home belonging to a confirmed depraved Palestinian terrorist amounts to “collective punishment.”</p>
<p>Now consider the administration’s lackadaisical response to the humiliation of its servicemen on Turkish soil and subsequent dropping of all charges against the culprits by Turkish prosecutors. The State Department’s silence on the matter is deafening. By contrast, when a Palestinian terrorist with U.S. citizenship was shot while throwing gasoline bombs at vehicular traffic, Obama’s State Department went into high gear expressing its “<a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/10/233356.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">deepest condolences</span></a>” to the terrorist’s family and demanding a “speedy and transparent investigation” into the shooting.</p>
<p>It appears that the Obama administration, which treats friends like enemies and enemies like friends, has adopted one standard for Israel and another for the autocratic governments that surround it. While Russia invades Ukraine, Turkey absorbs chunks of Cyprus and China continues its ethnic cleansing and occupation of Tibet as well as creeping annexation of areas within the South and East China seas, the administration appears besotted by the idea of tearing Israel away from parts of its ancestral land and creating yet another hostile and dysfunctional Arab country right on Israel’s doorstep. The administration’s continued haranguing of one of its closest allies is indicative of the disdain Obama has for Israel and serves only to embolden its genocidal enemies.  But then again, maybe that’s precisely what he wants.</p>
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		<title>ISIS Commanders Claimed to Have &#8220;Full Cooperation&#8221; w/Turkey in Kurdish Genocide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A so-called US ally is not only allied with terrorists, but is involved in genocide.]]></description>
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<p>Turkey may be a member of NATO, but as much as 60 percent of the country, which has repeatedly voted in Islamist governments, hates NATO and is allied with ISIS. The evidence of that continues to pile up.</p>
<p>A so-called US ally is not only allied with terrorists,<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/isis-and-turkey-cooperate-destroy-kurds-former-isis-member-reveals-turkish-282920"> but is involved in genocide</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A reluctant former communications technician working for Islamic State, now going by the pseudonym ‘Sherko Omer’, who managed to escape the group, told Newsweek that he travelled in a convoy of trucks as part of an ISIS unit from their stronghold in Raqqa, across Turkish border, through Turkey and then back across the border to attack Syrian Kurds in the city of Serekaniye in northern Syria in February.</p>
<p>“ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks,” said Omer of crossing the border into Turkey, “and they reassured us that nothing will happen, especially when that is how they regularly travel from Raqqa and Aleppo to the Kurdish areas further northeast of Syria because it was impossible to travel through Syria as YPG [National Army of Syrian Kurdistan] controlled most parts of the Kurdish region.”</p>
<p>“While we tried to cross the Ceylanpinar border post, the Turkish soldiers&#8217; watchtower light spotted us. The commander quickly told us to stay calm, stay in position and not to look at the light. He talked on the radio in Turkish again and we stayed in our positions. Watchtower light then moved about 10 minutes later and the commander ordered us to move because the watchtower light moving away from us was the signal that we could safely cross the border into Serekaniye.&#8221;</p>
<p>Until last month, NATO member Turkey had blocked Kurdish fighters from crossing the border into Syria to aid their Syrian counterparts in defending the border town of Kobane. Speaking to Newsweek, Kurds in Kobane said that people attempting to carry supplies across the border were often shot at.</p>
<p>Omer explained that during his time with ISIS, Turkey had been seen as an ally against the Kurds. “ISIS saw the Turkish army as its ally especially when it came to attacking the Kurds in Syria. The Kurds were the common enemy for both ISIS and Turkey. Also, ISIS had to be a Turkish ally because only through Turkey they were able to deploy ISIS fighters to northern parts of the Kurdish cities and towns in Syria.”</p>
<p>“ISIS and Turkey cooperate together on the ground on the basis that they have a common enemy to destroy, the Kurds,” he added.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s time to kick Turkey out of NATO. As long as Turkey remains in NATO, then NATO remains complicit in genocide.</p>
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		<title>Turkey&#8217;s Diminished Influence in the Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2014 05:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Erdogan’s authoritarianism has damaged Turkey’s appeal and influence. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/erdogan.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244914" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/erdogan.jpg" alt="erdogan" width="260" height="195" /></a>Not long ago, at the height of the Arab Spring, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (now President of Turkey) enjoyed the adulation of the masses throughout the Arab world, and a close friendship with U.S. President Barack Obama. A revival of a neo-Ottoman Empire was not far from the mind of Erdogan and his Foreign Minister (now Prime Minister) Ahmet Davutoglu. It was Davutoglu who proclaimed neo-Ottomanism as a policy, and a new order in the Middle East.</p>
<p>As the year 2014 comes to a close, Turkish influence in the Middle East has seen a sharp decline. It was outvoted in its quest for a seat at the United Nations Security Council despite its intensive lobbying of the UN’s 193 member nations. Turkey lost out to Spain. Counter lobbying by Egypt and Saudi Arabia helped defeat Turkey’s efforts. Turkey’s reluctance to take action against the Islamic State (IS) has put it under international pressure. Its refusal to help the besieged Syrian Kurds in the city of Kobani (on the Turkish border) resulted in violent Kurdish demonstrations in Turkey offsetting the gains made by the AKP party with the large Kurdish minority. In addition, Turkish passivity in the face of Kurdish suffering engendered contempt for Turkey.</p>
<p>In March, 2013, Davutoglu claimed that for the first time, Turkey has been back to the lost lands that once made the Ottoman Empire. He suggested that it’s time for Turkey to take the lead to set an order for these lands and re-connect them once again. He charged that “Last century was only a parenthesis for us. We will close the parenthesis. We will do so without going to war, or calling anyone an enemy, without being disrespectful to any border, we will again tie Sarajevo to Damascus, Benghazi to Erzurum, to Batumi. This is the core of our power, These may look like all different countries to you, but Yemen and Skopje were part of the <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/turkey-davutologu-ottoman-new-order-mideast.html">same country</a> 110 years ago, or Erzurum and Benghazi. When we say this, they call it ‘new Ottomanism.’ The ones who united the whole Europe don’t become new Romans, but the ones who unite the Middle East geography are called new Ottomanists. It’s an honor to be reminded with the names of ottoman, Seljuks, Artuklu or Eyyubi, but we have never or will ever have an eye on anyone’s land based on an historic background.”</p>
<p>Since Davutoglu’s bombastic words, the AKP leadership overestimated the potential of political Islam best exemplified by the surge of the Muslim Brotherhood parties during the Arab Spring in the region, and control of governments particularly in Egypt and Tunisia. The tens of millions of Egyptians who demonstrated against the Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood) government resulted in the military takeover, and the subsequent election of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as President of Egypt on June 8, 2014. The Turkish government’s unqualified support for Mohammad Morsi’s government has caused a deep breach in Turkish-Egyptian relations. Turkey’s relations with Egypt reached a breaking point and Ankara does not even have its ambassador in Cairo. A similar freeze in diplomatic relations exists between Turkey and Israel, where there is no Turkish ambassador in Israel.</p>
<p>On a visit to Antalya in Southern Turkey last July, Erdogan accused Israel of “dishonesty.” He went on to say “Israel apologized to Turkey for what it did to the Mavi Marmara ship four years ago, and we were close to restoring normal relations with it if our conditions were fulfilled. But it was not <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/europe/12749-turkeys-erdogan-normal-relations-with-israel-unlikely-if-its-aggression-on-palestine-continues">honest</a>.” In fact, Erdogan initiated the Navi Marmara provocation that sought to break Israel’s Gaza blockade, using violence against Israeli naval commandos enforcing the blockade. It resulted in nine Turks getting killed. Israel did, nevertheless, agree to compensate the families.</p>
<p>Erdogan’s conditions for restoring normal relations with Israel included compensation to the families of the victims, an apology to Turkey, and lifting the Gaza blockade. Encouraged by U.S. President Obama, Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized to Turkey. Erdogan, however, was not satisfied despite Obama’s urging to restore the relationship. Gaza remains a pretext for Erdogan to maintain his deep seated hostility towards the Jewish state. Turkish opposition presidential candidate Ekmelettin Ihsanoglu criticized the stance, claiming that Turkey should stay neutral vis-à-vis Palestine.</p>
<p>Umit Pamir, Turkey’s former ambassador to the UN, pondered Turkey’s deteriorating relations with its neighbors. He posited that “We came from a policy of having <a href="https://johnib.wordpress.com/tag/prime-minister-ahmet-davutoglu/">zero problems</a> with our neighbors (Davutoglu’s heralded policy), and now we’re having problems with almost everyone.”</p>
<p>In the years before the Arab Spring, Turkey, Syria, and Iran cooperated in suppressing the Kurds, and eliminating any Kurdish call for self-determination. In 1998, Hafez Assad, Syria’s dictator, cut off his relations with Abdullah Ocalan’s PKK, following Turkey’s threat to invade Syria. What followed was a warming of relations. Then, in March, 2011, the Syrian civil war began. Bashar Assad (Hafez’s son) wasted no time, and began butchering his mainly Sunni opposition. Erdogan became the loudest voice calling for regime change in Syria. Taking sides against the Alawite (Offshoot of Shiite Islam) Syrian dictator brought about a chilled relation with Assad’s protector, Shiite Iran.</p>
<p>Turkey’s relations with the Shiite-led government in Baghdad have become downright hostile. A strong economic relationship between Ankara and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has infuriated Baghdad, particularly Turkish investments in the KRG, and Turkey’s purchase of oil shipped from Kurdistan.</p>
<p>Erdogan’s support for the MB has brought Ankara to conflict not only with Egypt but with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. The MB vision of a Caliphate threatens the Saudis position as the guardians of the Islamic holy places.</p>
<p>Just before the Arab Spring arrived, Turkey appeared to be a model of Islamic democracy. However, Erdogan’s authoritarianism has dimmed Turkey’s image as an open and tolerant society. The crackdown on demonstrators in Istanbul’s Gezi Park in 2013, and Erdogan’s move to censor the Internet created a backlash, particularly among urban and educated youth. His open quarrel with Turkey’s most influential Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who helped him remove the army from politics, widened the opposition against him.</p>
<p>Erdogan decided to phase out schools run by Gulenists that prepare students for university exams. In response, Gulen called Erdogan a “pharaoh”. Erdogan retaliated by removing Gulen loyalists from the security services and the judiciary, accusing Gulen of creating a “parallel state.” The Gulenists, in turn, possess evidence of AKP linked corruption. Erdogan’s shielding of his AKP associates from investigation of corruption has soured Turkey’s image abroad and angered Turkish audiences.</p>
<p>Soner Cagaptay, (Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy) writing in <em>The Atlantic</em> (December 11, 2012) suggested that “Turkey’s two halves are like oil and water; though they may not blend, neither will disappear. Turkey’s Islamization is a fact, but so is secular and Westernized Turkey. The historical roots and current manifestation of this synthesis indicate it is a model that will be <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/12/why-turkey-cant-be-a-model-for-the-future-of-the-arab-spring/266116/">difficult to replicate</a> elsewhere in the region, as Islamist governments rise to power after the Arab Spring.”</p>
<p>Cagaptay was wrong about “Islamist governments rise to power after the “Arab Spring.” Egypt and Tunisia disprove his theory. What is rising in the Middle East is sub-governmental agents such as ISIS (or IS). Turkey however, is no longer a model for the region, and not just for the reasons given by Cagaptay. Erdogan’s authoritarianism and heavy hand in domestic and foreign relations has diminished Turkey’s appeal and influence.</p>
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		<title>Turkish Cops Say Superiors Protected ISIS Weapons Smuggling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 13:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["All of us are now a target for al-Qaeda." ]]></description>
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<p>Turkish acrobats<a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/latest-news_policemen-claim-they-were-prevented-from-pursuing-al-qaeda-suspects_363669.html"> are the best in the world</a>. Its AKP regime manages to be in NATO and ISIS at the same time. If Turkey ever enters the EU, it can balance it out with joining the Islamic State.</p>
<blockquote><p>Detained policemen standing trial on charges of wiretapping have claimed that they were prevented from putting suspects linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist organization and other groups affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) under close surveillance.</p>
<p>Muhammed Suad Çelen, one of the policemen who delivered his defense statement, said all the wiretapping activities were conducted legally and with a court decision, adding that there was no way the policemen could have benefitted from the wiretapping.</p>
<p>Çelen said the police intelligence unit ordered them not to conduct surveillance regarding al-Qaeda after Syria-bound trucks carrying weapons were intercepted in the southern province of Adana in January. He claimed that one Turkish police officer and one soldier were killed in Niğde by al-Qaeda militants because the terrorists could not be wiretapped.</p>
<p>&#8220;All of us are now a target for al-Qaeda,&#8221; Çelen said.</p>
<p>Çelen&#8217;s lawyer, Ali Aksoy, said the primary reason for the trial is his client&#8217;s investigation of ISIL. He added that the intelligence unit chief blocked him from conducting work to expose ISIL militants.</p></blockquote>
<p>An alliance with Turkey is an alliance with Al Qaeda. The rise of ISIS and its easy access to Turkey reminds us that the road to terror leads through Istanbul.</p>
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		<title>The Turks Hate Absolutely Everyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to irrational hatred of other countries, Islam is still the winner.]]></description>
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<p>But then again 73 percent of Turks also hate Russia. 70 percent of them hate NATO despite being part of it. 66 percent of them hate the EU <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/31/the-turkish-people-dont-look-favorably-upon-the-u-s-or-any-other-country-really/">despite wanting to be in it.</a></p>
<p>68 percent of them hate China. Why? 65 percent of them hate Brazil? What did Brazil do to them besides being non-Muslim?</p>
<p>It figures that a Sunni Muslim xenophobic country would really hate Israel and Iran.</p>
<p>The current Islamist government with its control of the media and constant propaganda can be blamed for some of this, but the best favorable the US ever had in Turkey was 30 percent.</p>
<p>None of the countries on the list even get a favorable rating. Saudi Arabia comes closest and by closest I mean that 56 percent of Turks hate it and 26 percent like it.</p>
<p>These are strangely xenophobic numbers even by Muslim standards. You get the feeling that if you made up a country, Turks would still rate it negatively.</p>
<p>For example, 65 percent of Brazil ranks the US favorably. Last year they ranked China as high as 65 percent. This year China tumbled to 44 percent.</p>
<p>Even China has a 50 percent favorable view of the US. It clocks in Russia at 66 percent and Brazil at 43 percent. Even the Russians like China and Brazil, and used to like the US before the recent war.</p>
<p>Even a nasty place like Pakistan will rate China favorably, even if it also hates everyone, including Brazil.</p>
<p>The Turks are somewhat unique in just randomly hating everyone.</p>
<p>Still Muslim countries tend to cluster around the bottom of country ratings, which means they seem to randomly give other countries negative ratings which is an indicator of high levels of xenophobia.</p>
<p>Some of Brazil&#8217;s regional neighbors rate it poorly, but overall the most negative ratings come from Turkey, Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, the PLO Authority, Malaysia and Tunisia.</p>
<p>When it comes to irrational hatred of other countries, Islam is still the winner.</p>
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		<title>Dracula and the Sultan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/du.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-243869" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/du.jpg" alt="du" width="214" height="339" /></a>Always comfortable with Hollywood’s distortion of history as long as it suits their propagandistic motives, progressives and their Islamic allies are the first to try to discredit films that don’t fit their narrative. You can be sure that any film they attack on grounds of supposed “historical inaccuracy” must be uncomfortably close to the truth.</p>
<p>Writing in the <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/10/what-historical-inaccuracies-dracula-untold-tell-us-about-rise-islamophobia"><em>New Statesman</em></a> (and reprinted in the <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119991/dracula-untold-islamophobic"><em>New Republic</em></a>), Turkish writer Elest Ali asks the burning cinematic question, “Is <em>Dracula Untold</em> an Islamophobic movie?” She’s referring to the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829150/?ref_=nv_sr_1">new Universal picture</a> starring Luke Evans and Dominic Cooper, a fanciful epic about the actual historical source of the outlandish Dracula legend we all know and love: Vlad Tepes III, 15<sup>th</sup> century Romanian hero and legend who dared resist invasion by the feared Ottoman empire.”</p>
<p>Elest Ali recently saw the film in Turkey with a friend who declared, “That film was very anti-Muslim.” “What else is new?” she replies – because we all know how openly bigoted Hollywood currently is toward Muslims, am I right? Ali decided to write about her issue with the movie’s “historical accuracy, and contemporary significance.” Non-spoiler alert: she denounces it as Islamophobic, the kneejerk, go-to accusation leveled at anything and anyone that doesn’t shine a flattering light on Islam or Muslims (<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/mark-tapson/maher-and-harris-educate-affleck-about-islam/">see Affleck, Ben</a>).</p>
<p>“Hollywood is no genius when it comes to accurate representation,” she begins, and I couldn’t agree more. From the “Bush lied, people died” message of Matt Damon’s <em>The Green Zone</em>, to the ahistorical moral equivalency of the Crusades epic <em>Kingdom of Heaven</em>, to the lies about Ronald Reagan and race in <em>Lee Daniels’ The Butler</em>, Hollywood rewrites history to ensure that its dramatic version <em>becomes</em> history in the popular imagination.</p>
<p>But <em>Dracula Untold</em> doesn’t suit Ali’s biases, so she casts the suspicion of bigotry over it. “In the current climate of global political tension and escalating Islamophobia,” she asks, without considering Islam’s responsibility for the former or providing any evidence of the latter, “what political statement does <em>Dracula Untold </em>make in pitting our vampire hero against the armies of Mehmet II?” Probably no political statement at all was intended by the filmmakers, but in any case it wasn’t the statement Ali wanted to see.</p>
<p>She suggests that in Vlad’s time (which she oddly labels “the Age of Enlightenment,” a period that was at least two centuries distant), Islam was an “appealing,” “fast-spreading faith” that was “glamorized” by “wealthy, cultivated Muslim travelers” in Europe, seducing large numbers of European converts. In fact, Islam has always spread not because its appeal is irresistible (except to barbarous killers like today’s ISIS sympathizers), but through the coercive power of the sword. She feels that the movie’s use of the word “Turk” to characterize the glamorous, cultivated, multicultural Ottomans is a subtle historical slur, “an attempt to tribalize the Islamic faith and associate it with foreign, potentially threatening powers, which were the common enemy.” Well, in the time and place in which the movie is set, the Islamic Ottoman empire <em>was</em> a threatening foreign power. For that matter, Turkey <em>today</em> is a threatening foreign power.</p>
<p>“I’ll fill you in on some more history,” Ali continues condescendingly before proceeding to whitewash the imperialist Sultan Mehmet II, while dismissing Vlad as “progenitor of the vampire myth.” She claims that Vlad’s father, the Prince of Wallachia (essentially present-day Romania), “willingly offered” the Sultan his two sons in return for helping him keep the throne against his enemies. This is laughably false. Vlad the elder was seized and his sons Vlad III and Radu the Handsome were taken as hostages to ensure the father’s fealty as a vassal of the Sultan. Young Vlad was a “guest” of the Sultan for six years; meanwhile, according to biographers Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally in <em>Dracula: Prince of Many Faces</em>, the beautiful young Radu initially did his best to resist Mehmet’s sexual advances before eventually succumbing and becoming his lover and a Janissary general. Ali doesn’t mention Mehmet’s bisexuality or Vlad’s fierce refusal to convert to Islam.</p>
<p>Ali continues in her imaginary take on history: When Vlad later “started wreaking carnage across the Balkans, Mehmet II dispatched Radu to quell his brother’s blood-thirst.” Wrong. Vlad was well aware that Mehmet fancied himself a conqueror on the scale of Caesar, Alexander, and Hannibal. Mehmet’s ambition was to bring all of Europe into his imperialistic fold, and Vlad was determined to make Wallachia the tip of the spear of Christian European resistance to Islam. He began by sending a very defiant message to the Sultan: he took Mehmet’s emissaries, who came demanding an overdue payment of the jizya, and nailed their turbans to their heads.</p>
<p>“Vlad’s insurrection was not dissimilar to the terror tactics of the so-called Islamic State,” Ali claims in her ongoing attempt to demonize him (as an aside, the Islamic State is not “so-called”; it is the name that those butchers have proudly given themselves). She is not at all incorrect about Vlad’s terror tactics – details of his widespread cruelty make your hair stand on end – but what she does not acknowledge is that Vlad learned such merciless tactics <em>from the Ottomans</em> while he was their hostage as a boy. He learned them well enough that when Mehmet himself marched upon Wallachia to seize it, he was so horrified to be greeted by a forest of 20,000 impaled Ottoman soldiers that he had to be talked out of turning tail back home.</p>
<p>Ali complains that Vlad waged a campaign of guerilla attacks against Mehmet’s larger army, including dressing his men in Ottoman uniforms and using his fluent Turkish to slip into the enemy’s camps. She says this as if unaware that the warlord prophet Muhammad himself taught that “war is deception.” Vlad would have made Muhammad proud.</p>
<p>Ultimately, his hated brother Radu was victorious and Vlad was offered sanctuary by his ally Matthew Corvinus and his clan. “But frankly,” writes Ali, “they’d also had enough of his grizzly antics, so they imprisoned him on charges of treason. True story,” she says, as if we should take her word for it. In fact, Vlad was <em>falsely</em> charged with treason for political reasons; Matthew later allied with Vlad to help him retrieve the Wallachian throne from a Turkish prince. True story.</p>
<p>“Vilification of Islam has reached such heights,” Elest Ali whines, without acknowledging the many obvious reasons why Islam itself might be to blame for that, “that even when the Sultan is cast opposite history’s bloodiest-psycho-tyrant, it’s Dracula who emerges as the tragic hero.” Vlad the Impaler – not the fictional Dracula – certainly earned his nickname, but he is by no means history’s “bloodiest-psycho-tyrant.” That honorific could go to any number of modern monsters such as, say, Ismail Enver Pasha, one of the principal architects of Turkey’s Armenian Genocide. But don’t hold your breath waiting for Hollywood to dramatize the truth about that.</p>
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		<title>Islamist Turkey&#8217;s Betrayal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2014 04:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kobane_3071699b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243324" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kobane_3071699b-423x350.jpg" alt="Kobane_3071699b" width="346" height="286" /></a>The struggle for Kobani, the Syrian Kurdish town on the border with Turkey where the Kurdish forces alone are battling the barbaric hordes of the Islamic State, aka ISIS, is reminiscent of the Polish uprising in Warsaw against the Nazis in August, 1944. While the Polish Home Army fought courageously against the might of the superior armed Nazis, the Soviet Union’s Red Army stood by across the River Vistula, which divides Warsaw, watching the merciless slaughter of Polish civilians and the destruction of the city.</p>
<p>The Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan, like the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin before him, showed no consideration for the lives of innocent Kurdish civilians already butchered by the sadists of the Islamic State mercenaries. For those still alive in Kobani, unless rescued by outside intervention or supplied with heavy arms and ammunition, will also die a gruesome death. Turkish tanks, in the meantime, are ensconced on the crest overlooking Kobani. They can help save the remaining Kurds should Erdogan give them the order to fire on the ISIS fighters. But, just as Stalin wanted the Nazis to decimate the Polish nationalist Home Army, Erdogan is wishing for ISIS to destroy the Syrian Kurds.</p>
<p>What is puzzling in all this is the role the U.S. is playing. In his September 10, 2014 speech, President Obama said that, “military advisors are needed to support Iraqi and <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/10/statement-president-isil-1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Kurdish forces</span></a> with training, intelligence, and equipment.” Hitherto, there has been no supply of equipment or training of the Kurds. In fact, the Obama administrations blind support for a unitary Iraqi state led by Shiite ruled Baghdad government is in contradiction with the realities on the ground. The Shiite-led Iraqi army folded in the face of the jihadi ISIS guerrilla offensive, and in the process, abandoning U.S. supplied heavy weapons including tanks, armored cars, Humvees, etc. The Kurdish Peshmergas alone hold the line against ISIS, and they are not getting the promised arms because the U.S. has long insisted that all sales of U.S. weapons must go through Iraq&#8217;s central government, despite Kurdish complaints that Baghdad had deprived them of promised military equipment and financial support.</p>
<p>Washington has not overruled Baghdad on issuing direct shipments of arms to the Kurds.  The Iraqi government has demanded that all shipments to the Kurds arrive first in Baghdad. Iraqi officials have regularly blocked or delayed these shipments to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil. Moreover, U.S. State Department regulations bar the KRG from purchasing U.S. made weapons without “<a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/resetting-the-u.s.-kurdish-baghdad-relationship"><span style="color: #0433ff;">end-user certificates</span></a>” issued by Baghdad. According to the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, “Baghdad is bent on wielding this authority to prevent the <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/resetting-the-u.s.-kurdish-baghdad-relationship"><span style="color: #0433ff;">KRG</span></a> from developing antitank and antiaircraft arsenals.”</p>
<p>The Kurds in both Iraq and Syria are the only effective fighting force, boots on the ground, capable of stopping the ISIS hordes. In Iraq, the Peshmergas, the Kurdistan Regional Government defense forces are facing ISIS while armed with antiquated Russian Kalashnikovs (AK-47) and machine guns mounted on open Toyota pick-up trucks. Britain, France and Germany pledged to supply arms, but the KRG, while welcoming such support, has yet to receive them.</p>
<p>In Syria, the Kurdish defenders of Kobani are encircled on three sides with their backs pressed against the Turkish border, and the only supply line is through Turkey. Erdogan and his government however, have branded the defending Kurds as terrorists. Erdogan has argued that the Kurds of Kobani are no better than ISIS. The <i>New York Times</i> (October 12, 2014) quoted Erdogan as saying, “The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/world/middleeast/kurdish-rebels-assail-turkish-inaction-on-isis-as-peril-to-peace-talks.html?mabReward=RI%3A14&amp;module=WelcomeBackModal&amp;contentCollection=Middle%20East&amp;region=FixedCenter&amp;action=click&amp;src=recg&amp;pgtype=article"><span style="color: #0433ff;">P.K.K</span></a>. and ISIS are the same for Turkey…It is wrong to view them differently. We need to deal with them jointly.”</p>
<p>The P.K.K. is indeed considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the European Union, yet the P.K.K. has been in peace negotiations with Ankara, demanding not the destruction of Turkey (unlike Hamas’ aim of destroying Israel) but merely cultural rights. The P.K.K demands include use of the Kurdish language in educational institutions, reduction in the threshold for elections to parliament from 10% to 5%, greater decentralization, and the removal of all discriminatory provisions against Kurds from the constitution and other laws.</p>
<p>It is highly hypocritical for Erdogan to compare the P.K.K. to the fanatical Islamist group ISIS, when he has been one of the chief supporters of the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas. And, if there is to be a fair comparison, it would be between ISIS and Hamas, both seeking to create an Islamic Caliphate, and the expulsion of non-Muslims from the region.</p>
<p>Kobani is being defended by the People’s Protection Units, or Y.P.G., an affiliate of the P.K.K. Erdogan’s concern is that the Syrian Kurds might try to establish an autonomous region on the border, which Turkey wants to prevent. Again, Erdogan’s transparent hypocrisy is clear to see. He actively supports Hamas and Palestinian independence but seeks to deny the same to the Kurds, the end result being that he will allow the Kurds of Kobani to perish while at the same time looking the other way while the ISIS jihadists use Turkey as a corridor for their recruited fighters to enter Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p>Erdogan’s Turkey is a member of NATO, yet in 2003 he refused Turkish airspace to U.S. and allied forces on the way to Iraq. <i>The New York Times</i> reported (October 7, 2014) Turkish President Erdogan said “Turkey would not get more deeply <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/world/middleeast/isis-syria-coalition-strikes.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">involved</span></a> in the conflict with the Islamic State.” Erdogan conditioned Turkey’s possible involvement in fighting ISIS on the U.S. giving greater support to the rebels trying to oust Bashar Assad, the Syrian President. Turkey has, moreover, denied that it has signed an agreement authorizing the U.S. and the coalition forces to use its airbases for operations against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic told <i>Reuters</i>: “<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/13/us-mideast-crisis-turkey-idUSKCN0I210L20141013"><span style="color: #0433ff;">There is not an agreement</span></a>; no decision has been taken with regard to using Incirlik air base.” He refuted U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice’s claim on <i>NBC News ‘Meet The Press’</i> show on October 12 (2014) that Turkey had agreed to allow the use of the Incirlik airbase against IS.</p>
<p>The U.S. should react to the Turkish treachery by removing its airbase from Incirlik, Turkey to Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government. The U.S. should immediately provide the KRG with heavy weapons, including tanks, artillery, anti-armor rockets, and Humvees. The equipment should be sent directly to Erbil bypassing Baghdad. The State Department must change its regulations, and allow the KRG to become a certified “end-user,” instead of being at the mercy of Iranian controlled Baghdad.</p>
<p><i>The Wall Street Journal</i> headline on October 15, 2014 reading “Turks Bomb Kurds, Not Islamic State” is most telling. It is in essence siding with the enemies of the U.S. and its NATO allies. Considering Turkey’s behavior as a NATO member, it is time to consider its leader – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for what he really is – an anti-western pro-Jihadist dictator. If anything, in Kobani, Erdogan has shown the world his treacherous nature by betraying the Kurds with whom he has been negotiating peace.</p>
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		<title>Is Turkey Participating in Kurdish Genocide w/Planes Sold by Obama?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama even enabled Turkey to use its F-16s to attack Israel.]]></description>
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<p>Turkey, a state sponsor of ISIS is currently doing its part for Kurdish genocide<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/instead-of-bombing-isis-turkey-bombs-kurds-wus-planes/"> by bombing Kurdish border villages</a> using F-16s while obstructing the US war against ISIS.</p>
<p>Turkey has had an indigenous F-16 manufacturing operation for some time. An obvious mistake on our part. But it <a href="http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/turkey-orders-30-f16c-block-50s-et-al-for-29b-02671/">ordered 50 more F-16s</a> in 2012, recently got a number of upgrades <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/_turkey-to-rewrite-software-source-codes-of-204-f-16-fighters_261418.html">including F-16 software access</a>.</p>
<p>What that essentially means is that <a href="https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/20111104.aspx">Obama enabled Turkey to use its F-16s to attack Israel</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In particular, Turkey wants control over the aircraft’s identification friend or foe (IFF) system in order to offer more flexibility with regard to how its fleet identifies foreign air force jets. The default setting of the original U.S. software for Turkey’s F-16 fleet, for instance, identified Israeli air force jets as exclusively friendly. To overcome the problem, ASELSAN, one of Turkey’s leading defense companies, developed a new IFF system, which was finalized in September 2011 and is now operational on Turkey’s F-16 fleet. The new system allows Turkish fighters to bypass the original software restrictions, allowing Turkish pilots to determine whether to recognize Israeli fighters as either friendly or hostile.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a fundamentally hostile act by Obama. But there are no software problems when it comes to using F-16s to massacre Kurds. And that&#8217;s what Erdogan, the Islamist Butcher of Istanbul, is currently doing with his F-16s.</p>
<blockquote><p>F-16 jets bombed PKK targets in the village of Daglica in the Kurdish-majority Hakkari province near the border with Iraq, a security source said.</p>
<p>Attack helicopters also struck at PKK targets around the village of Geyiksuyu in the Tunceli province of eastern Turkey following raids by the PKK.</p>
<p>Airstrikes have failed to stop Islamic State from reaching the centre of Kobane, which was in danger of falling, as commanders from the US-led coalition prepared to meet overnight in Washington to discuss halting the group’s advance in Iraq and Syria.</p></blockquote>
<p>So while the US tries to stop ISIS from massacring Kurds, Turkey is massacring Kurds using F-16s. And Obama has enabled Turkey to carry out similar massacres even against American allies.</p>
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		<title>Instead of Bombing ISIS, Turkey Bombs Kurds w/US Planes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>You can&#8217;t blame Turkey. It&#8217;s too used to killing Armenians and Kurds to stop now. That&#8217;s why instead of bombing ISIS, it&#8217;s<a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/turkey-launches-first-airstrikes-since-ceasefire-on-kurdish-rebels/story-e6frg6so-1227090500407"> back to bombing Kurds</a> in a Kurdish village.</p>
<p>Despite Turkey&#8217;s sponsorship of ISIS, it might be willing to bomb it. If only there were more Armenians and Kurds in ISIS.</p>
<blockquote><p>F-16 jets bombed PKK targets in the village of Daglica in the Kurdish-majority Hakkari province near the border with Iraq, a security source said.</p>
<p>Attack helicopters also struck at PKK targets around the village of Geyiksuyu in the Tunceli province of eastern Turkey following raids by the PKK.</p>
<p>Airstrikes have failed to stop Islamic State from reaching the centre of Kobane, which was in danger of falling, as commanders from the US-led coalition prepared to meet overnight in Washington to discuss halting the group’s advance in Iraq and Syria.</p></blockquote>
<p>The US response is crippled by Turkey&#8217;s denial of bases. Meanwhile Turkey is bombing a Kurdish village using American planes. And naturally no one is talking about civilian casualties. Islamic states are apparently allowed to kill as many civilians as they want.</p>
<blockquote><p>Fighters from the PKK (Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party) have been aiding Kurdish YPG militia in Kobane and Turkey has refused to help supply its long-standing enemy with weapons or allow Kurdish fighters to enter Syria.</p>
<p>French President Francois Hollande appealed to the government in Ankara on Tuesday to open its border, as US-led fighter jets continued to target IS fighters in and around Kobane.</p>
<p>The air raids on PKK positions near the south-eastern village of Daglica on Monday caused &#8220;heavy casualties&#8221;, Hurriyet daily reported.</p></blockquote>
<p>As I wrote before, it&#8217;s time to kick Turkey out of NATO. It&#8217;s a terrorist regime that continues to engage in genocide while collaborating with terrorists.</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time to Kick Terrorist Turkey Out of NATO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey is determined to drag the US into war by using ISIS terrorists to massacre Kurds and Christians. ]]></description>
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<p>While the US tried to stop ISIS from killing Kurds in Syria, Turkey, the state sponsor of ISIS across the border sat, watched and killed some Kurds inside their own country.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Turkey has been involved in genocide. This isn&#8217;t the first time that it&#8217;s been involved in ethnic cleansing even as a member of NATO.</p>
<p>The original excuse for keeping Turkey on board was the USSR. But the USSR is gone. The alliance with Turkey collapsed long ago. With the rise of the AKP, Turkey has become a Jihadist state that vacuums up loans to build an empire of terrorist oligarchs funneling money to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.</p>
<p>NATO may have outlived its purpose, but Turkey&#8217;s role in it certainly has. Turkey is obstructing the US fight against ISIS the way that it obstructed the US fight against Saddam. And this time it&#8217;s even more serious.</p>
<p>Turkey is determined to drag the US into a war against Syria by using its ISIS terrorists to massacre Kurds and Christians. While Turkish spies trawl the US, its ISIS allies commit mass murder.</p>
<p>NATO stands for very little if it can include a member state that is engaging in armed occupation, that has jails filled with political dissidents and that actively sponsors genocide.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to kick terrorist Turkey out of NATO. There&#8217;s no room for a genocidal thug like Erdogan in any organization dedicated to protecting peace, democracy and freedom.</p>
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		<title>Telling the Truth About the War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not about what Obama didn’t do -- it’s about what he did.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bid.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242554" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bid-450x253.jpg" alt="bid" width="285" height="160" /></a>Joe Biden is making his latest round of apologies for that rarest of gaffes, especially coming from him: the truth. Biden’s crime was stating that ISIS had been empowered by the backing of Sunni states, including Turkey and the UAE, for the Syrian opposition.</p>
<p>“They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad — except that the people who were being supplied were al Nusra and al Qaeda,”<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/05/vp-biden-apologizes-for-telling-truth-about-turkey-saudi-and-isis.html"> Biden said</a>.</p>
<p>Biden, who insulted plenty of people over the years, has been forced to apologize, making private phone calls to the Islamist thug ruling Turkey and to a UAE prince. It’s a humiliating performance for a man who is only a heartbeat away from becoming the President of the United States to be forced to apologize to some tinpot despots for telling the truth about them.</p>
<p>When Biden decided to throw a temper tantrum in Israel, it was the Israelis who were forced to apologize to him. Biden recently boasted of insulting Putin to his face (though it probably never actually happened) without being forced to make any apologetic phone calls to Moscow. It’s telling that only Muslim countries appear to be able to compel apologies from the Vice President of the United States.</p>
<p>But the one time that Biden did apologize for something he said was also the one time that he should not have apologized because it was the one time that he was telling the truth.</p>
<p>Biden didn’t tell the whole truth. He left out any mention of Qatar and the blank check its weapons smuggling had received from his administration. He also neglected to mention that the roots of the Syrian Civil War had come out of Obama’s Libyan War and the Arab Spring. Still there’s only so much truth that you can expect from a top Democrat who also happens to be a notoriously compulsive liar.</p>
<p>Truth may be the rarest quality in this conflict.</p>
<p>Obama has been mostly blamed for what he didn’t do, arm the rebels, keep troops in Iraq or maintain ties with the Sunni tribes, than for the things that he did do. Neglect is a safer charge than malfeasance. It leaves open the door for Hillary Clinton to run on some variant of her more aggressive foreign policy so that she can finally take her 3 AM phone call from the Syrian terrorists and send them lots of guns.</p>
<p>Biden’s story that his administration refused to arm the Syrian rebels and pleaded with the Sunni states not to arm them is one of those widely circulated half-truths. In fact Obama and his people chose to maintain plausible deniability in both Libya and Syria, attempting to direct arms without getting their fingerprints all over the merchandise, going so far as to ask the UAE to smuggle non-American weapons.</p>
<p>The <em>New York Times</em>, the outlet of choice for officially unofficial administration leaks, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/obama-administration-oversaw-arms-shipments-to-al-qaeda-in-libya/">quoted a former official as saying</a>, “The U.A.E. was asking for clearance to send U.S. weapons. We told them it’s O.K. to ship other weapons.”</p>
<p>That’s what plausible deniability looks like.</p>
<p>Obama did arm the Islamic militias in Libya and Syria; he just chose to do it more indirectly than directly. Only recently has the work become more direct, but even so it’s still shrouded in misleading leaks, sneakers on the ground and plausible deniability. The smuggling began in Libya and culminated in Syria.</p>
<p>The Sunni states did the actual dirty work of smuggling in weapons in Libya while Obama ordered the military to turn a blind eye to what was going on. Again, quoting from the same story, “NATO air and sea forces around Libya had to be alerted not to interdict the cargo planes and freighters transporting the arms into Libya from Qatar and the emirates.”</p>
<p>The unofficially official story is that the UAE and Qatar were going to ship the weapons anyway and we got involved to see that they didn’t fall into the hands of “extremists.” They kept falling into the hands of the “extremists” anyway and we just threw up our hands and accepted that we couldn’t do anything about it, but let the smuggling continue. Another name for that short play is good cop-bad cop.</p>
<p>The Turkish, Emirati and Qatari bad cops smuggled the weapons while Obama wrung his hands and complained that his Sunni Muslim partners were crazy and he just couldn’t stop them.</p>
<p>In this “best case scenario” story, Obama was a hapless puppet of Qatar, Turkey and the UAE. In the worst case scenario, he was an equal partner. It’s telling that Biden and the <em>New York Times</em> are both sticking with the “hapless puppet” version of the narrative. It makes Obama look incompetent, but the<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-born-again-idiot/"> “born-again idiot” routine</a> is becoming an acceptable fallback scenario for the party and the movement.</p>
<p>And it conveniently differentiates Biden from Hillary who has committed to arming the rebels after initially opposing it in interviews while she was still employed by the administration.</p>
<p>Biden’s apologies to Qatar and Turkey are a reminder of who calls the shots on foreign policy and it isn’t the military-industrial complex, the Israel Lobby or the Freemasons. It’s a bunch of desert bandits with oil and a ton of Washington insiders on their payroll. But there’s also a lot more to it than that.</p>
<p>If we accept the version of history put out by Biden and the <em>New York Times</em>, Obama Inc. knew that there were no democracy-loving “moderates” in Syria to arm. And indeed we do have quotes and leaks to support that. But despite that Obama chose to make no moves against Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq and Syria. Instead he went on working with a Syrian opposition that he knew had no credibility.</p>
<p>That scenario doesn’t hold up too well. If Obama knew that the Syrian rebels were too dangerous to arm, then why work with them at all and why eventually arm them?</p>
<p>The Arab Spring and ISIS are both examples of blowback to the joint projects of Obama, Qatar and Turkey. The Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS proved to be dangerous tools for ensuring Sunni supremacy. Everyone except Qatar and Turkey has abandoned the Muslim Brotherhood. And ISIS is even threatening Turkey and Qatar. Like Carter’s botched policy in Iran, a liberal Islamization project has gone up in flames and the man to blame has managed to make it seem as if the problem was what he didn’t do, rather than what he did. Obama has managed to pull off a Carter.</p>
<p>Neither Carter nor Obama wanted the disastrous outcomes that they got, but they did want to set up Islamist states as part of their foreign policy. They just weren’t counting on things getting so messy.</p>
<p>Biden is complaining about the UAE and Turkey seeking out a Sunni-Shiite proxy war in Syria. But that’s only because he’s an idiot. The Arab Spring was meant to empower Sunni Islamists. What did he and his boss imagine that Sunni Islamists would do with their free time, aside from killing Christians and attacking American diplomatic missions? And who else did he think would end up on top of the pile?</p>
<p>Biden can blame Turkey and the UAE for the outcome, but it was always going to end this way. ISIS is Obamas’ mess. The Egyptian military and the Saudis cleaned up the mess in Egypt. Now the Saudis, the UAE and Obama are belatedly trying to put the ISIS genie back in the bottle in Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>Obama would settle for being criticized for not intervening aggressively enough, but the real problem was his original aggressive intervention. His foreign policy overthrew governments and armed terrorists while maintaining plausible deniability.</p>
<p>Now he hopes that no one notices that he’s bombing the end results of his own foreign policy.</p>
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		<title>Turkey&#8217;s Islamist Tyrant Warns: Help Syrian Terrorists or I&#8217;ll Let Kurds Die</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is genocidal blackmail. ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/171326.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-242610" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/171326-450x299.jpg" alt="171326" width="450" height="299" /></a> <a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1411401278028_wps_68_SANLIURFA_TURKEY_SEPTEMBE.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-242611" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1411401278028_wps_68_SANLIURFA_TURKEY_SEPTEMBE-417x350.jpg" alt="1411401278028_wps_68_SANLIURFA_TURKEY_SEPTEMBE" width="417" height="350" /></a></p>
<p>Turkey backed ISIS before the group turned on it. And now the Turkish Islamist thug in charge of the place <a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/turkish-army-uses-tear-gas-stop-fleeing-kurdish-civilians-crossing-border">is keeping Kurds from fleeing ISIS massacres</a> into Turkey using heavily mobilized forces from the US&#8230; while refusing to do anything about ISIS.</p>
<p>This is genocidal blackmail.</p>
<blockquote><p>The armed forces employed tear gas for the second day in a row to push people back from the border area which has become increasingly dangerous owing to mortars fired from Syria, an AFP correspondent reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;Leave or else we will intervene,&#8221; the security forces ordered through loudspeakers on trucks.</p></blockquote>
<p>Which is<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.619640"> exactly what you expect from</a> Erdogan.</p>
<blockquote><p>Not since the Red Army halted its tanks on the east bank of the Vistula have we seen a catastrophe shaping up as emblematic as that shaping up right now at the Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobani. In the World War II tragedy, the Red Army at first broadcast the call for the Free Polish Army to begin its uprising against the Nazis. They then refused to lift a finger to help them. So the Free Poles — democrats — were wiped out. Only then did the Soviets come in to seize what was left of Poland.</p>
<p>Fast forward to right now, when the city of Kobani, once home to 45,000 people, is under siege from the Islamic State and facing the kind of slaughter that the Islamic State has made its trademark.</p>
<p>Turkish tanks have looked on from across the border as the Islamic State tightens its siege of the Kurdish defenders, and they aren’t lifting so much as a trigger finger&#8230;</p>
<p>The Turkish cynicism is just something to behold. On the one hand, according to CNN, Turkey was preventing Kurds from crossing into Turkey from Kobani. CNN described refugees pressing up against a border fence, chanting, “We want to go across.” On the other hand, Turkey was reportedly preventing Kurdish volunteers inside Turkey from crossing into Syria to help with the defense of Kobani.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/world/middleeast/isis-syria-coalition-strikes.html">the Butcher of Istanbul is clarifying his blood price</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Kurdish fighters in Syria struggled to fight off Islamic State militants in Kobani on Tuesday, as Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, warned that border town was about to fall, despite new United States-led airstrikes on the militants.</p>
<p>Saying that aerial attacks alone may not be enough to stop the fighters’ advance, Mr. Erdogan called for more support for insurgents opposed to the group in Syria. In doing so, he was reiterating the key sticking point between Turkey and Washington: President Obama wants Turkey to take stronger action against the Islamic State, while Mr. Erdogan wants the American effort to focus more on ousting Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a polite way of saying that either the US overthrows Assad for Erdogan&#8217;s Sunni Jihadists or the US will be prevented from defeating ISIS and the Kurds will be massacred.</p>
<p>Either way the Butcher of Istanbul wins.</p>
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		<title>Islamic State/ISIS Opens First Consulate in Islamist Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey should be expelled from NATO]]></description>
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<p>Al Qaeda has operated openly in Turkey for years. A top adviser of Erdogan, the country&#8217;s Islamist tyrant, had Al Qaeda links. ISIS openly operates in Turkey, its fighters travel through its cities and utilize its hospitals.</p>
<p><a href="http://awdnews.com/top-news/9885-isis-to-open-its-first-consulate-in-istanbul.html">Why not open a consulate there</a>? Qatar would be even more welcoming, even the Taliban have a consulate there, <a href="http://www.aydinlikdaily.com/Detail/ISIS-Opens-A-Consulate-In-Turkey/4576#.VCrEfvlr7J8">but Turkey is more convenient</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) intends to inaugurate its first diplomatic mission in Istanbul in order to provide consular services for all who wish to join the extremist group in Iraq, reported Turkish daily Aydinlik as saying.</p>
<p>Abu-Omar Al-Tunisi, the ISIS de facto head of foreign relations issued a statement, saying that the Islamic Caliphate is determined to launch its first diplomatic mission in a friendly and Muslim country. He further noted that the ISIS hopes that the bilateral relations with Ankara will witness more developments under the aegis of newly-elected president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.</p>
<p>ISIS also claims that its consulate in Istanbul will pay the hospital bills of all wounded Islamist militants who traveled to turkey to receive medical treatment.</p>
<p>CHP (Republican People&#8217;s Party) , a leading Turkish opposing party issued a communique condemning Turkish government decision to allow ISIS to open a legal diplomatic office  in Çankaya &#8211; the central and elegant metropolitan district of the city of Istanbul.</p></blockquote>
<p>If this turns out to be true, Turkey should be expelled from NATO. And it goes without saying that it should be barred from the EU and its dual citizens should be expelled back to their homeland from Austria, Germany and other parts of Europe.</p>
<p>Their Caliph Erdogan, whom they cheered enthusiastically on his visit there, can cover their welfare instead of German taxpayers.</p>
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		<title>Turkey: The Jihadists’ Fifth Column in NATO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new passageway of ISIS terrorists into Syria. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PJ-Erdogan-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241923" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PJ-Erdogan-1.jpg" alt="PJ-Erdogan-1" width="293" height="230" /></a>Turkey may well be the jihadists’ fifth column in NATO.</p>
<p>Turkey’s autocratic Islamist president, Tayyip Erdogan, has allowed Turkey’s border to become a passageway for jihadist fighters streaming into Syria to join ISIS and the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra.</p>
<p>Oil from fields in Iraq and Syria under ISIS control has been regularly transported into Turkey, and sold to black market traders at below international oil market prices. Turkey itself is reportedly a major buyer of the cheap black market oil. The income from ISIS’s oil sales through the black market, as much as $30 million a month, helps finance ISIS’s expansion, making Turkey one of ISIS’s key bankrollers and enablers.</p>
<p>Turkey has also allowed ISIS recruiting networks operating online and through religious study groups to flourish within its borders. Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper reported that as many as 3,000 Turks have joined ISIS. For a government that has cracked down harshly on Kurdish dissidents and on journalists reporting inside Turkey who dare to question Erdogan’s policies, Erdogan’s regime has not appeared to have discouraged ISIS recruitment within its borders or the flow of recruits from Turkey, and the flow of recruits from other countries traveling through Turkey, who are joining ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>Despite pressure from the United States, Erdogan has held back from making any significant contributions to the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition, fearing that Syria’s Assad regime and Kurds would benefit to Turkey’s detriment.  Even after Turkey secured the release of its citizens held by ISIS – reportedly through a prisoner exchange with ISIS – Turkey is not acting like an active NATO partner.</p>
<p>Turkey may now decide to provide a show of token support to the coalition to humor Obama and win U.S. support for Turkey’s bid to become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council next year. However, the fact is that Erdogan is on the side of the jihadists and will use a seat on the Security Council to push an agenda that is both pro-Islamist and anti-Israel.</p>
<p>Erdogan’s active support of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood speaks for itself. And if there were any doubt where Erdogan’s sympathies lie, one only need to take a look at his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week.</p>
<p>Instead of expressing moral outrage at the jihadists’ slaughters in Iraq and Syria, for example, Erdogan engaged in a gratuitous attack on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who had responded to mass demonstrations in Egypt demanding an end to the theocracy that the jihadists were seeking to impose forcibly on Egyptian citizens. Erdogan was upset that his Muslim Brotherhood jihadist buddy Mohamed Morsi was no longer Egypt’s leader:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The United Nations as well as the democratic countries have done nothing but watch the events such as overthrowing the elected president in Egypt and the killings of thousands of innocent people who want to defend their choice. And the person who carried out this coup is being legitimized. If we are going to defend people who come to power through coups, then I ask the question why we exist as the United Nations.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Erdogan’s pettiness was evidenced by reports that he refused to attend a luncheon hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week when he learned he would be sitting at the same table as President Sisi.</p>
<p>Instead of playing a constructive role, like Egypt did, in trying to bring an end to the conflict in Gaza on terms that were not a complete give-away to Hamas’s demands, Erdogan did what he could to undermine Egypt’s efforts. He has previously referred to President Sisi as a “tyrant” who could not be trusted to broker a cease-fire.</p>
<p>Egypt&#8217;s foreign ministry put out a statement after Erdogan’s General Assembly speech exposing Erdogan’s hidden agenda to restore the Ottoman Empire’s glory days of the past:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is no doubt that the fabrication of such lies and fabrications are not something strange that comes from the Turkish President, who is keen to provoke chaos to sow divisions in the Middle East region through its support for groups and terrorist organizations. Whether political support or funding or accommodation in order to harm the interests of the peoples of the region to achieve personal ambitions for the Turkish president and revive illusions of the past.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Erdogan told the Council on Foreign Relations, in a speech he delivered a day before his General Assembly address, that everything would have been hunky-dory if only the Ottoman Empire had remained intact. He said that “we see significant crises taking place in the Middle East and Eastern Europe today, and up until 100 years ago, these areas were governed from the Ottoman capital, Istanbul. The Palestinian issue, the problems in Iraq and Syria, Crimea, the Balkans are all issues that emerged following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.”</p>
<p>Erdogan has in the past evoked the imagery of the Battle of Manzikert as a symbol for Turkish youth to look up to and emulate. The Battle of Manzikert occurred in 1071, when the Seljuk Turks decisively defeated the leading Christian power of that era, the Byzantine Empire.</p>
<p>In sum, Erdogan shares the same goal as ISIS – the restoral of an Islamic caliphate – even if they ultimately spar over who will control the caliphate.</p>
<p>Erdogan said in his General Assembly speech that Turkey stands against terrorism. But Erdogan’s concept of whom qualifies as a terrorist is focused on the Jewish state.  “Israel is a terror state; they are creating a wave of terror with what they’re doing now,” he told CNN in an interview last July, referring to Israel’s military actions to defend its civilian population against Hamas’s rocket attacks and terror tunnels. “Right now, we are a member state of NATO and we are a country which acts within the framework together with our partners in NATO. We have an international identity, a character. We never got involved with terror – we have always fought against terror.”</p>
<p>Erdogan is engaging in taqiyya, the Islamic doctrine of deceit. Turkey, for example, actively supports Hamas, a jihadist group that engages in terror against civilians and is the offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood which Turkey supports as well. While denying in his remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations that he harbored any anti-Semitic feelings, Erdogan condemned Israel for what he called its ”massacres” in Gaza. He said the Palestinian issue “is an important issue that has an impact not just on the Palestinians, but on all the Muslims and everyone who has a conscience in the world.”</p>
<p>But Turkey’s “conscience” is very selective. Turkey has a double standard when it comes to the issue of “occupation” and “settlers.”  While consistently condemning Israel for alleged occupation of Palestinian lands and allegedly illegal settlements, Turkey continues its own illegal occupation of northern Cyprus following its invasion of the island in 1974. Tens of thousands of mainland Turks have settled on Cypriote land that does not belong to them, under the protection of thousands of Turkish soldiers who do not belong in Cyprus.</p>
<p>At a UN press briefing by Republic of Cyprus President Nicos Anastasidades on September 26<sup>th</sup>, I asked him to comment on Turkey’s evident hypocrisy regarding the occupation and settlements issue, which it raises in every available forum with regards to Israel but evades when it comes to itself. President Anastasidades agreed that Turkey was displaying a double-standard.  This exchange was later removed from an official UN video record of the press conference. Did Turkish officials, who several years ago made UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon apologize for an alleged incident involving an altercation between UN security personnel and Turkish personnel, demand a censoring of the video to remove the criticism of Turkey’s hypocrisy on the occupation and settlements issue? Given the Turkish government’s regular anti-press campaign of intimidation in its own country, it would not be surprising if they did, but we will probably never know for sure.</p>
<p>However, one thing is for sure. Turkey is not a reliable member of NATO or U.S. ally. Its president’s sympathies lie with the jihadists and the enemies of Western style democracy. If Turkey does not unequivocally change its ways, steps should be considered to end its membership in NATO and to re-align the U.S. strategic relationship in the region further away from Turkey.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://en.cihan.com.tr/news/Erdogan-regime-sends-wrong-signals-about-ISIL_4219-CHMTUzNDIxOS81">Utterly predictable</a> <a href="http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140913/DEFREG01/309130025/Anti-Coalition-Grows-Turkey-Takes-Back-Seat">of course</a>.</p>
<p>Erdogan&#8217;s Islamist Turkey was until recently tied to ISIS. While the usual talking heads are claiming that Turkey is afraid, it has a huge military and has nothing to fear from ISIS.</p>
<blockquote><p>It just likes what ISIS is doing. It doesn&#8217;t want to let it get too close, but it&#8217;s happy to see it mess up Syria and Iraq for the Jihad.</p>
<p>The regime of Turkey&#8217;s chief political Islamist, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and its alleged links to extremist groups in Syria and Iraq, most specifically the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) &#8212; also known as ISIS and the IS &#8212; has been put under closer scrutiny now that US President Barack Obama has unveiled a plan of action to degrade the capabilities of this terrorist organization by enlisting the help of its allies and partners in NATO and the Middle East.</p>
<p>The extent, if any, to which the political Islamist government in Turkey has aided and abetted the blossoming of radical groups as part of an overall strategy to shore up opposition against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria or to weaken the now-defunct Nouri al-Maliki government in Iraq is not known. What we do know is that Turkey has clearly emerged as the front-line battle state against vicious al-Qaeda-type terror groups, including ISIL, whose cells have been spreading across Turkish provinces like a cancer, waiting to knock out healthy tissues one by one.</p>
<p>Yet, neither Erdoğan nor Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu seems too concerned about this growing threat, which presents an immediate and clear danger for Turkey&#8217;s national security. Not a single word about ISIL or al-Qaeda was mentioned in the official program of the 62nd government, which was recently formed under Davutoğlu&#8217;s caretaker leadership despite the fact that ISIL kidnapped 46 Turkish citizens, including two babies and diplomats, from its Mosul consulate in Iraq almost three months ago.</p>
<p>Strangely enough, Erdoğan, Davutoğlu and other members of the Cabinet have all avoided criticizing ISIL directly. Meanwhile, they have not been afraid of bashing the US, the EU, Egypt and others in public speeches. The most serious condemnation of ISIL we have heard so far came from an awkward place. Forestry and Water Affairs Minister Veysel Eroğlu warned ISIL “not to test Turkey&#8217;s patience” after the group threatened Turkey with cutting off the flow of the Euphrates River, which would effectively dry up northern Syria. “Turkey does not surrender to such threats,” he said, adding that “ISIL shouldn&#8217;t bluff about threats.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So it&#8217;s no surprise that the US will once again get no support from Turkey&#8217;s Islamic member.</p>
<blockquote><p>Turkey, which borders Iraq and Syria, said late last week that it would not support strikes against Islamic State militants and it would not allow a US-led coalition to launch strikes from its bases, a government official told Agence France-Presse.</p>
<p>“By geography, Turkey is going to be absolutely indispensable to the ongoing fight against [Islamic State],” the senior US official said on Sept. 8, shortly before US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel landed in Ankara for meetings with top government officials including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz and Gen. Necdet Özel, chief of defense.</p></blockquote>
<p>It was also indispensable to the original Iraq War. But don&#8217;t worry, <a href="http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/turkeys-erdogan-to-visit-qatar-to-discuss-islamic-state-threat_354712.html">Erdogan will be heading to meet </a>with fellow state sponsor of terror, Qatar.</p>
<blockquote><p> Turkey‘s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Qatar next week to discuss the threat from Islamic State militants with the Gulf nation‘s leadership, media reported on Thursday.</p>
<p>The two nations have found common ground in recent years, including support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and both are sympathetic to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>The stand has earned them criticism in Washington.</p></blockquote>
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