The media is <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/05/26/gun-deaths-children-america">pushing</a> this misleading CDC press release because it fits the gun control agenda after the latest school shooting.

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		Firearms were the&nbsp;leading cause of death&nbsp;for kids one and older for the first time in 2020, the most recent year for which&nbsp;CDC data&nbsp;is available.

	
		Why it matters:&nbsp;The firearm death rate among children is steadily rising, as more kids are involved in gun-related homicides like Tuesday's&nbsp;mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas,&nbsp;as well as suicides and accidents.
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	Yeah, no.


	The CDC <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761">release</a> to the New England Journal of Medicine, which normally loves to talk up racial demographics in the name of equity, buries them in its appendix. Here's what those look like.


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	Those aren't school shootings, they're the black nationalists of Black Lives Matter at work.&nbsp;


	Crime shot up due to pro-crime measures, like police defunding and bail elimination, as well as the massive BLM riots. But the impact among most groups, including white people, was limited.


	There was however a massive increase in the already staggeringly high death rate among black kids.


	But this just means that the CDC's numbers for black kids are in line with <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/09/black-lives-matter-killed-2000-black-people-daniel-greenfield/">black men in general</a>.

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		Homicide doesn't even make the CDC's&nbsp;top 10 causes&nbsp;of death for men in America, but it's number four for black men. In 2017, it caused 5% of the deaths of black men, more than strokes, diabetes, or most diseases. The only things more likely to kill black men than black-on-black crime are heart disease, cancer, and accidents.

	
		Among black men under the age of 20, homicide is the leading cause of death at 35.3%.

	
		It's also the leading cause of death for black men from 20-44 years old at 27.6%.

	
		Only at the age of 65 does homicide drop out of the top 10 causes of death for black men.
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	Since we can't blame "white supremacy" for this, we also can't talk about it.&nbsp;


	And the CDC buries this data inside the overall numbers for kids and then tries to act like school shootings, a rare event, have suddenly made guns a leading cause of death for kids.


	Look for the media to keep pushing this same lie, blaming guns, instead of crime and its BLM enablers.

CDC Releases Numbers Showing BLM is Killing Black Kids

The media is pushing this misleading CDC press release because it fits the gun control agenda after the latest school shooting.


	
		Firearms were the

CDC Releases Numbers Showing BLM is Killing Black Kids

Why did school shootings go from being a rare horror to an ongoing phenomenon? A big part of the puzzle is the Columbine Massacre.


	While there were school shootings before Columbine, the media frenzy, the live coverage, was a sea change, and police have often found that school shooters studied the Columbine psychos and wanted to be like them.


	We know mass shooters imitate each other and inspire copycat attacks. That's why school shootings<a href="https://www.center4research.org/copy-cats-kill/"> continue to pop up</a>.

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		In the month that followed, 400 related incidents were reported across the country. Students called in bomb threats and praised the shooters’ actions. Some schools feared additional shootings and shut down temporarily.

	
		In 2007, a Virginia Tech student killed 32 students and faculty at the university. Prior to the shooting, he expressed a desire in writing to repeat the shooting at Columbine. Since then, many shooters have cited the Virginia Tech gunman as an inspiration and others have threatened to kill more than the 32 victims killed.

	
		Studies indicate that the more media attention a shooter gets, the more likely the event will inspire a future mass shooter. For example, a 2015 study found that after a mass shooting, there was an increased chance of another one occurring in the next 13 days.&nbsp;A 2017 study found that media coverage of a mass shooting may increase the frequency and lethality of future shootings for much longer than two weeks.
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	The media knows perfectly well <a href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2013/02/the-wrong-track.html">the impact that it has</a>.

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		Suicides spike after front page coverage of a suicide. After Marilyn Monroe's death, 197 more people killed themselves than the statistical norm. Suicides rise even after fictional suicides on soap operas. And murders are also influenced by the coverage of real and fictional murders.
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	The internet makes the genie harder to put back in the bottle, but the media doesn't even try.


	Columbine broke the unspoken rule about covering teenage suicides to avoid the copycat effect. The media breaks it every time since while blaming Republicans for not abolishing the Bill of Rights. The media understands perfectly well that it's promoting similar mass killings and it wants that to happen because it helps its agenda.

The Media's Obsession With School Shootings is Killing Kids

Why did school shootings go from being a rare horror to an ongoing phenomenon? A big part of the puzzle is the Columbine Massacre.


	While there were

The Media's Obsession With School Shootings is Killing Kids

“The Second Amendment is not absolute. When it was passed you couldn’t own a cannon, you couldn’t own certain kinds of weapons. There’s just always been limitations," Biden <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/3501244-the-haunting-reason-congress-wont-pass-sensible-gun-laws/">insisted</a>, during remarks exploiting the mass shooting in Texas.


	The thing about Biden is that he tells the same lies, gets called on it, and does it again.&nbsp;


	He does it when talking about his own made-up biography and when discussing America.&nbsp;


	Biden's dumb "cannon" line has been repeatedly fact-checked to death even by mainstream media outlets.


	Here's Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/28/bidens-false-claim-that-2nd-amendment-bans-cannon-ownership/">dealing with</a> this same Biden line last year.

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		“And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon.”
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	As Kessler noted then, "In this case, he repeated a claim — that Americans were prohibited from owning cannons — that has already been&nbsp;fact-checked as false&nbsp;when he made it during the presidential campaign."


	Variations of this same lie had already been fact-checked by lefty fact-checkers like Politifact. That's how completely groundless it is.


	And yet it says something that Biden and, quite likely, his staffers won't stop pushing the same lie. And that there's no actual accountability for it. When the media disagreed with something Trump said, they made a spectacle of it, they would assemble lists of what they claimed were lies and declared that political norms were being violated.


	Nothing like that for Biden, who we're told never lies, just "misspeaks". Again and again and again.

Biden Lies About Gun Control Again

“The Second Amendment is not absolute. When it was passed you couldn’t own a cannon, you couldn’t own certain kinds of weapons. There’s just always been

Wokeness is a symptom of brokeness. The harder they virtue signal, the worse they are at doing their jobs.


	Anyone who thought that San Francisco schools were going to dump the absurd wokeness and focus on education has <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/SFUSD-drops-the-word-chief-from-job-titles-17199311.php">another thing</a> coming.

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		The word “chief” will no longer be used in reference to job titles in the San Francisco Unified School District in an effort, school officials said, to avoid the word’s connotation with Native Americans.
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	One can only imagine how the parents who watched their children's education<a href="https://sfstandard.com/education/new-data-show-s-f-public-school-students-slipped-further-behind-amid-pandemic/"> get nuked</a> feel about the exciting new SFUSD focus.

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		In math, every student group saw a drop in proficiency from the year prior, though some drops were more pronounced. Thirty-eight percent of African American students were marked “Proficient or above” in 2020-21, down from 46% one year earlier. Pacific Islander students with “Proficient of above” math marks dropped to 47% from 60%. District-wide proficiency was at 67%, down from 74%.
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	Now it's fixed though.


	If the scores drop anymore, teachers will get another raise, SFUSD will spend a fortune on equity consultants and rename some schools.&nbsp;


	That's bound to work, chief.

SF School System Solves 38% Black Student Proficiency Problem With Wokeness

Wokeness is a symptom of brokeness. The harder they virtue signal, the worse they are at doing their jobs.


	Anyone who thought that San Francisco schools

SF School System Solves 38% Black Student Proficiency Problem With Wokeness

Another way of reading this is that the majority party has abandoned its legislative agenda and will govern through executive orders while trying to hold test votes on whatever outrage is trending right now.


	Is this supposed to turn the public against Republicans?


	Since no one pays attention to Senate&nbsp;votes, mostly it's a stop-loss effort to placate furious Dem donors.


	Schumer tried this with abortion and it didn't go anywhere. Next up, <a href="https://thehill.com/news/senate/3502557-schumer-vows-to-force-vote-on-gun-control-legislation-after-memorial-day-recess/">guns, guns, guns</a>.

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		Senate Majority Leader&nbsp;Charles Schumer&nbsp;(D-N.Y.) told colleagues Thursday morning that they should be prepared to vote on gun control legislation when they return to Washington next month after the Memorial Day recess, promising a showdown with Republicans after mass shootings in New York and Texas this month left 31 people dead.
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	Next&nbsp;week, it'll be more BLM or #MeToo or whatever is trending in the media right now.


	This is what virtue signaling defeatism looks like.


	Schumer is announcing his own irrelevance.

Schumer Will Continue Holding Meaningless Votes on Whatever Issue is Trending Right Now

Another way of reading this is that the majority party has abandoned its legislative agenda and will govern through executive orders while trying to hold test

Schumer Will Continue Holding Meaningless Votes on Whatever Issue is Trending Right Now

Turkey has long been heralded by the international media as a “secular” and “modern” country. But in reality, it is the absolute opposite. Non-Muslim communities – Christians, Jews, Alevis, Yazidis, agnostics, deists, atheists, and all others – are systematically victimized by discriminatory acts, including violations of their human rights, their convictions, their faith, and their freedom of speech.

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		A&nbsp;<a href="https://inancozgurlugugirisimi.org/en/monitoring-report-on-the-right-to-freedom-of-religion-or-belief-in-turkey-2022-is-published/">2022 report</a>&nbsp;by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee’s Freedom of Belief Initiative, entitled “An Appeal to Move Forward from Aspirations to Actions: Monitoring Report on the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Turkey,” reveals Turkey’s decades-long abuses against non-Muslim communities across the country.

	
		The&nbsp;<a href="https://inancozgurlugugirisimi.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/iog-monitoring-report-on-forb-2022-en.pdf">Committee lists</a>&nbsp;some of the violations of the rights of non-Muslims:

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			Atheists, deists, and agnostics encounter daily infringement on their right to freedom of thought and belief in the workplace, family, and the education system. Atheist, deist and agnostic parents and students do not have the right to exemption from the compulsory religious instruction in the Religious Culture and Ethics lessons.</li>
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			Those who express criticism of religion or belief in general, or of specific interpretations, especially those of Islam, face complaints and risk being prosecuted under the Turkish Penal Code.</li>
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			No religious or belief community in Turkey has a legal personality as such. Religious or belief groups and their representative institutions, such as Patriarchates or the Chief Rabbinate, lack legal entity status and as such, cannot access the court system, open bank accounts, buy property or officially employ their own religious officials and provide social security for them. Individuals belonging to religious, or belief groups organize themselves as associations or establish foundations with religious intent, though these are also subject to limitations.</li>
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			Important restrictions continue to hamper the associative capacity of the non-Muslim community foundations. The foundations’ board elections have been obstructed since 2013. As a result, the functioning of the community foundations and the beneficiary communities continue to be paralyzed and weak.</li>
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			Acquiring place of worship status remains an ongoing challenge for several religious communities. This is particularly true for the Alevi, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Protestant communities. The kingdom halls of Jehovah’s Witnesses, the churches of the Protestant community and the cemevis of the Alevi community are in particularly precarious positions due to this lack of the official place of worship status. The public authorities have systematically denied place of worship status to these sites, in disregard of relevant ECtHR [European Court of Human Rights] judgments.</li>
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			Many religious buildings are on the verge of ruin and at risk of being lost even though they are officially registered as cultural heritage sites by the Cultural Heritage Preservation Regional Boards under the umbrella of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.</li>
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			Furthermore, the impact of past loss of properties and associated foundations belonging to a wide range of religious or belief groups continues to be a scar in need of attention. For non-Muslim communities, the process of returning community foundation property that was unjustly taken has not been completed; the damage has yet to be fully remedied.</li>
	</ul>

	
		The report gives as examples the Hagia Sophia former Church and the Chora former Church in Constantinople that were converted into mosques in 2020.

	
		“Both Hagia Sophia and Chora were originally built as churches, converted into mosques during the Ottoman period, and then converted into museums during the Republican Period,” the report adds.

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			In 2005, the Association of Permanent Foundations and Service to Historical Artifacts and Environment filed a lawsuit to challenge the status of the Chora Church as a museum. In November 2019, the Council of State, Turkey’s highest administrative court, ordered that it was to be reconverted to a mosque. A Presidential Decree opening the Chora (Kariye) Mosque to worship was published in the Official Gazette on 21 August 2020. In October 2020 the images of Jesus Christ, frescoes and icons in the museum were covered by white curtains.

		
			In July 2020, the Turkish Council of State Tenth Chamber annulled the 1934 Cabinet Decree making it a museum. The Council of State ruled unanimously to nullify the 1934 Cabinet Decree as contrary to the law. Almost immediately after the ruling, President [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan signed a presidential decree on 10 July 2020 turning the site back into a mosque. The decree transferred the administration of the Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya-i Kebir) Mosque to the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, DİB or Diyanet), a public body under the Presidency responsible for the administration of all mosques in Turkey.”
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		<li>
			No measures have been taken to eliminate interference [of the government] in the internal affairs of the Armenian Orthodox, Jewish, and Greek Orthodox communities in the appointment of religious leaders. This is despite the finding of the Turkish Constitutional Court that the interference in the latest election of the Armenian Patriarch was not prescribed by law.</li>
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			Glaring inequalities in the legal restrictions facing training religious personnel other than Sunni Muslim religious personnel and in public resources allocated to the training of Sunni Muslim religious personnel versus the denial of resources to the training of other religious personnel, have not been remedied.</li>
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			Religious communities, such as the Alevi community, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, Armenian Patriarchate and Protestant community, have been unable to train religious staff within Turkey.</li>
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			Turkish authorities have continued to issue travel restrictions targeting Christian foreigners. These restrictions interfere with several human rights including freedom of religion or belief, the right to fair trial, freedom of movement, and protection of aliens against unlawful expulsion. This practice also impacts the Protestant community since, not being permitted to train their own teachers, they rely on foreign religious workers.</li>
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			Public funding of religious services is provided solely for the Sunni Islamic community. This is in contradiction with the prohibition of discrimination and with the state’s obligation to observe the principle of equality.</li>
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			As a result of the denial of public religious services, requested by the Alevi applicants, and the non-recognition of the Alevi faith by the state, Alevis are unable to fully exercise their right to freedom of religion or belief.</li>
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			The child’s right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, their right to participation, as well as parents’ rights to raise their children in line with their own philosophical or religious views, are subject to systematic interference in Turkey’s public education system. The mandatory Religious Culture and Ethics (RCE) lessons, including the exemption mechanism, the optional religion courses, Islamic religious practices in schools and high school placement exam constitute substantial interference in the protection of, among others, the child’s right to freedom of religion or belief.</li>
		<li>
			Women across different religious or belief communities face significant obstructions to free will in the exercise of their human rights, including freedom of religion or belief. Some of the central findings of this report demonstrate that women continue to be especially vulnerable in their homes, women are prone to pressures from secular and religious segments of society and women often feel compelled to live double lives. Furthermore, men continue to exercise a monopoly over the interpretation of religious dogma and religious offices. Decision-making processes in religious or belief communities also remain dominated by men.</li>
	</ul>

	
		All these rights violations are rooted in or inspired by Islamic teachings.

	
		Islam does not allow freedom of religion and threatens the death penalty for apostasy. As the website “<a href="https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/apostasy.aspx">The Religion of Peace” (ROP)</a>&nbsp;puts it, “The only freedom of belief in Islam is the freedom to become Muslim.” The ROP website also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/forced-conversion.aspx">notes</a>:

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			Muslims are told to fight unbelievers until they are either dead, converted to Islam, or in a permanent state of subjugation under Muslim domination. Allowing people of other faiths to live and worship independently of Islamic rule is not an option.
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		And in the Islamic teachings and traditions, there is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/democracy.aspx">no room for</a>&nbsp;a secular political system in which all people are treated as equals.

	
		While the believers of all other religions and non-religious citizens are oppressed and deprived of their human rights, one of the most important institutions of the country is the Presidency of Religious Affairs, a Sunni Islamic institution, referred to in Turkish simply as the Diyanet. It was established in 1924. The President of Turkey appoints the President of the Diyanet. Provincial muftis, and imams working in Sunni mosques are appointed by the Diyanet. With an enormous budget, a plentiful staff, broad activities and a great sphere of influence, the Diyanet is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5833/secular-turkey">a bigger institution</a>&nbsp;than many ministries of Turkey.

	
		The institutions and associations belonging to non-Muslims, however, are subject to organized discrimination. The demographic collapse of Christians and Jews has made the problem even worse. Today only 0.1% of Turkey’s whole population is Christian or Jewish, because of decades of persecution culminating in the genocide at the beginning of the twentieth century.

	
		Massacres swept across the Christian population of Anatolia from 1894 to 1924. During the three decades, around 2.5 million Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks were murdered by Turks. The historians Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674251434" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">detail</a>&nbsp;the crimes committed during this period in their book&nbsp;The Thirty-Year Genocide.

	
		Also, in 1934, Jews in eastern Thrace were exposed to a pogrom. From 1941 to 1942, Turkey enlisted all Christian and Jewish males in the military, including the elderly and mentally ill. They were forced to work under horrendous conditions in labor battalions. In 1942, a wealth tax was imposed to eliminate Christians and Jews from the economy. In 1955, Greeks, Armenians, and Jews were targeted by a pogrom in Istanbul. And in 1964, the remaining Greeks were forcefully expelled from Turkey. All of the above contributed to the ethnic cleansing of Christians and Jews in Turkey.

	
		Even after those crimes, Turkey arbitrarily continues to violate the rights of the non-Muslims who are still living in the country, as the most recent report by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee’s Freedom of Belief Initiative has once more revealed.

	
		It is the Islamic government of Turkey and much of its Islamic society that are responsible for this continual prejudice and abuse of human rights. Dissidents living under such Islamic dictatorships, however, are not allowed to have public debates about these issues, because of the ideological refusal to recognize their freedom of speech if they are “kafirs” or “infidels” and ever dared to question historic facts, and above all, Islam.

	
		Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist and political analyst formerly based in Ankara.
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Turkey: Freedom of Religion Only for Islam

Turkey has long been heralded by the international media as a “secular” and “modern” country. But in reality, it is the absolute opposite. Non-Muslim

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			Cyprus has a special place in Jewish history. Jews are deeply rooted in this island country, whence they once obtained wine for the incense used in the Temple (Jerusalem Talmud Yoma 4), possibly produced by Jews living there. Jews have lived in Cyprus for millennia, according to historical records. Hadassah Magazine&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2010/12/01/cyprus/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">reports</a>:</div>
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			Cyprus and Eretz Yisrael had trade relations by the third century B.C.E., and Jews began to settle the island. In the first century B.C.E., the Roman emperor Augustus gave Herod, king of Judea, part of the management and revenue of the island’s copper mines. Jews were among the miners and copper workers. After Herod’s death, his granddaughter Alexandra married a Cypriot Jew.

		
			The community prospered, and synagogues existed in at least three locations: Golgoi, Lapethos and Constantia-Salamine. Some Cypriot Jews moved to Jerusalem, and the Talmud mentions imports of cumin, wine and dried figs from Cyprus.
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		The European Jewish Congress&nbsp;<a href="https://eurojewcong.org/communities/cyprus/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">gives further information</a>:

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			In 142 BCE, Cyprus was one of the countries that safeguarded Jewish rights at the request of the Romans. Cypriot Jews seem to have participated in a rebellion in 177 CE against Emperor Trajan. After the revolt was crushed, Jews were strictly forbidden to set foot on Cyprus, but this prohibition did not last long.
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		“Jews returned to the island shortly thereafter,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/about/communities/CY" rel="noopener" target="_blank">adds</a>&nbsp;the World Jewish Congress. “Jewish community in Cyprus continued to thrive throughout the centuries, and between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, there were more Jews in Cyprus than on any other Greek island.”

	
		Cyprus today is a majority Christian country, and its patron saint is a Cypriot Jew: St. Barnabas, who, accompanied by Saul (Apostle Paul) and Mark,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2013&amp;version=ISV" rel="noopener" target="_blank">sailed to Cyprus</a>&nbsp;to preach there (Acts: 13).

	
		Today, the relations between Cyprus and Israel are thriving. “Throughout the history of Cyprus, Jewish people have always lived on the island,” the project manager of the Jewish Museum of Cyprus, Skevi Philippou, said. “There has always been a bond between Israel and Cyprus, especially now between tourism and business cooperation. Being so close to the Holy Land, Cyprus is a popular place for Jews to visit or make their home. Today, there are over 6500 Jews living in Cyprus. Most are from Israel, UK, Eastern Europe and Russia.”

	
		The Chief Rabbi of Cyprus, Arie Zeev Raskin, has been&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chabadcyprus.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/99716/jewish/About-Us.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">officially serving the community</a>&nbsp;since 2005. The rabbi and his wife, Shaindel Raskin, together with their four children, arrived in Cyprus in 2003. Five years later, their fifth child was born in the island country. The Chabad house – “Chabad of Cyprus” – was opened in 2005.

	
		Today, the Cyprus Jewish Community Center in the city of Larnaca is open to serve the community all year around. And the Jewish Museum there raises awareness about the Jewish ties to the island. The museum’s current exhibit is the “Nissen hut,” an original&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/jewishmuseumcyprus/photos/1087856158404217" rel="noopener" target="_blank">WW2 artefact.</a>

	
		According to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jcc.org.cy/jewishmuseumofcyprus" rel="noopener" target="_blank">its website</a>, the museum aims to educate the public concerning the important role played by Cyprus and Cypriots “in assisting Holocaust victims escaping Europe after World War II as they made their way to Israel.”

	
		From 1878 to 1960, when Cyprus became independent, the island was under British rule. After the rise of Nazism in 1933, hundreds of Jews escaped to Cyprus. The British government then set up 12 detention camps there for Holocaust survivors who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to the then British Mandate of Palestine. The camps&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwHXnqaA43E" rel="noopener" target="_blank">operated</a>&nbsp;from 1946 to 1949 and held over 53,000 internees. Once the State of Israel was established, most refugees moved there.

	
		“Conditions in the camps were horrific,”&nbsp;<a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/07/03/living-history-at-the-jewish-museum-of-cyprus-photos/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">reported</a>&nbsp;the newspaper Cyprus Mail. “But there was one ray of light for those on the long journey home: the local Cypriots who, for three long years, helped to feed, clothe and nurture the interned at their own expense. The brainchild of Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, the Chief Rabbi of Cyprus, the museum is the Jewish Community’s way of thanking those who helped the interned.”

	
		“Rabbi Raskin felt an overwhelming need to thank the people he sees as heroes,” Philippou&nbsp;<a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/07/03/living-history-at-the-jewish-museum-of-cyprus-photos/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">said</a>.

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			Ordinary people – farmers, workers, people who barely had enough to feed their own families – gave food, water and medicine to the refugees in the camps. And the next generation of Cypriots must know and remember what their ancestors did, so that the cycle of kindness will continue.

		
			Those 53,000 Jewish refugees and their descendants owe their health and wellbeing to Cyprus and to the compassion of the Cypriots; by aiding those who were starting a new life, the Cypriots not only played an important role in assisting Holocaust victims escaping Europe after World War II, but they were also responsible for helping to promote the re-birth of Jewish life, culture, religious observation and Jewish heritage around the world.
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		Meanwhile, the tradition of opposing antisemitism is ongoing in Cyprus. In 2019, Cyprus&nbsp;<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/cyprus-adopts-international-anti-semitism-definition-earning-praise-from-israel/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">endorsed</a>&nbsp;the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. Then-Jewish Agency chair and current president of Israel Isaac Herzog&nbsp;<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/cyprus-adopts-international-anti-semitism-definition-earning-praise-from-israel/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">praised</a>&nbsp;the move, as did American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris.

	
		Many Cypriot municipal leaders&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ajc.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2021-01/MAYORS%20UNITED%20AGAINST%20ANTISEMITISM%20Statement.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">have also signed</a>&nbsp;the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) Mayors United Against Antisemitism statement. More than 500 European and U.S. mayors, including 22 mayors from Cyprus, joined the initiative.

	
		“The relations between Israel and Cyprus have never been stronger than today,” AJC Jerusalem Director, Lt. Col. (Res.) Avital Leibovich, said. “They are not only based on mutual interest but also on strategic challenges and cooperation on many levels – from cultural to academic, tourism to startups. In a changing Middle East, such partnerships are important and cherished.”

	
		Since 1974, however, around 40 percent of the Cypriot territory in the north of the island nation has been illegally occupied by Turkey. That year, Cyprus was invaded by the Turkish military twice and exposed to an ethnic cleansing campaign which forcibly changed the demographic character of the island country.

	
		<a href="http://www.kypros.org/Cyprus_Problem/Turkish-Atrocities.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Many crimes were committed</a>&nbsp;by Turkish troops against indigenous Greek Cypriots. Civilian targets such as hospitals were bombed. Greek Cypriots, including children, were murdered. Civilians were arbitrarily detained by the Turkish military authorities and were put either in prisons or concentration camps. Some were made to perform forced labor. The European Commission on Human Rights&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/762205" rel="noopener" target="_blank">documented</a>&nbsp;the rape of women and children aged 12 to 71, including those who were pregnant or mentally retarded. The rapes were so widespread that the Church of Cyprus was compelled to relax its previous strictures on abortion.

	
		Nearly 200,000 Greek Cypriots were forcibly expelled from their homes by the Turkish invasion forces and were replaced by illegal settlers from Turkey and Turkish Cypriots. Lands, houses and other properties belonging to Greek Cypriots were seized, looted and distributed to Turks. As a result of this ethnic cleansing, northern Cyprus, which was for millennia a majority-Greek area until 1974, has been turned into a Turkish colony.

	
		Historically, large Jewish population groups lived across coastal towns in Cyprus such as ancient Salamis in the city of Famagusta, which is today under Turkish occupation. Sadly, the invasion campaign has brought widespread destruction to all non-Muslim Cypriot historic sites.

	
		To this day, the occupying forces continue to plunder and destroy the Cypriot cultural heritage, including the Jewish heritage of the occupied area. The Jewish cemetery there, for instance, has been destroyed. According to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mfa.gov.cy/mfa/Embassies/embassy_thehague.nsf/CF30C1833A24D2FCC22578B00036FA20/$file/Destruction%20of%20cultural%20heritage%20(English%20version).pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2012 report</a>&nbsp;“The Loss of A Civilization: Destruction of cultural heritage in occupied Cyprus,”

	<blockquote>
		
			The historic Margo Jewish Cemetery, a national monument for the Jewish people, southeast of Nicosia, has been desecrated and destroyed in the same way as Christian cemeteries in the area occupied by Turkish troops have been desecrated and destroyed.

		
			The Margo Jewish Cemetery is home to the graves of Jews of the diaspora of 1885 and of Jewish refugees who came to Cyprus after the Second World War.

		
			The cemetery is located in a strictly controlled military area and is guarded by an armed Turkish soldier. Jewish organisations and other groups have persistently petitioned for free access to the cemetery to conduct religious ceremonies, but these requests have not been granted by the occupying power and its puppet regime.
	</blockquote>

	
		“We have visited the cemetery several times,” Philippou confirms. “But we haven’t been able to hold any religious ceremonies, just a quick visit under supervision. We would like to have it restored, but no permission was given thus far.”

	
		See a video of the destroyed Jewish cemetery in the Turkish-occupied part of Nicosia&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5f7Nt0RsC0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.

	
		Cypriot-Dutch author, cultural campaigner and activist Tasoula Hadjitofi&nbsp;<a href="https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/an-expellee-returns-to-northern-cyprus-after-47-years-a-664be1fc-7020-45a0-9af3-e4af2233f517" rel="noopener" target="_blank">became a refugee</a>&nbsp;at age 15 when Turkish troops invaded Famagusta, the city of her birth, in 1974. For several decades, she&nbsp;<a href="https://tasoulahadjitofi.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">has collected</a>&nbsp;artifacts and other symbols of cultural heritage that has been looted and stolen to bring them back home to Cyprus. Referring to the liberation of prisoners from Nazi concentration camps in 1945, Hadjitofi said:

	<blockquote>
		
			Cypriots fought alongside the allies as British troops during the liberation of the Jews and other prisoners, for Cyprus was then a British colony. There are no poppies for those heroes on Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom or in Cyprus and little is known anywhere about them. Most of these forgotten heroes died quietly and took with them so many untold stories. Perhaps a handful are still around? Their stories must be told and their courage must be honored.
	</blockquote>

	
		“The historical ties are strong between Israel and Cyprus,” added Hadjitofi. “I do hope that our Jewish brothers and sisters worldwide are watching attentively the Islamization of northern Cyprus by Turkey, as well as the destruction of the Christian and Jewish sites in the occupied area. And for the sake of our shared heritage, historical and current struggles for freedom, as well as fundamental principles, they must do their best to stop them.”

	
		Reprinted From <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316291">Israel National News</a>.
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The Extinction of Jewish Heritage in Northern Cyprus

Cyprus has a special place in Jewish history. Jews are deeply rooted in this island country, whence they once obtained wine for the incense used in the Temple

What does the international community often think when they hear "Cyprus"? A beautiful island country in the Eastern Mediterranean? A heavenly holiday destination? Warm weather and scenic beaches? All of these are true. However, this small and resilient island country also has a dark and criminal history – a history shaped by the Turkish occupation since 1974.


	Cyprus gained independence from Britain in 1960 but full independence across the island would not last for long. In the summer of 1974, the Turkish military invaded northern Cyprus twice – first on 20 July and then on 14 August, committing ethno-religious cleansing and crimes against humanity in an attempt to terrorize the Greek Cypriots to push them southward. &nbsp;


	Turkey “launched a full scale aggressive attack against Cyprus, a small non-aligned and virtually defenseless country, possessing no air force, no navy and no army except for a small national guard," Zenon Rossides, the then-Cyprus representative to the United Nations,&nbsp;<a href="https://search.archives.un.org/uploads/r/united-nations-archives/f/9/1/f91e9dfcabd0d4b61ec7c165f4cd8f85a819e64480891342fc19f798c1b3d137/S-0903-0010-03-00001.pdf" target="_blank">sent a letter&nbsp;</a>on 6 December 1974 to the UN Secretary General. "Thus, Turkey's overwhelming military machine embarked upon an armed attack including napalm bombing of open towns and villages, wreaking destruction, setting forests on fire and spreading indiscriminate death and human suffering to the civilian population of the island.”


	To invade the island, Turkey used the coup organized by the then ruling Junta of Greece against Cypriot President Makarios. According to the <a href="http://www.kypros.org/Cyprus_Problem/Turkish-Atrocities.html#2">website Kypros.org</a>:

<blockquote>
	
		"The coup presented Turkey with the pretext she had long sought. Alleging a right of unilateral military intervention as guarantor of the 1960 Constitution, Turkey 5 days later invaded Cyprus…. Once in Cyprus, instead of restoring the state of affairs under the 1960 Constitution and protecting the human rights of all the people of Cyprus, as was her duty and alleged justification, Turkey, despite the coup having collapsed and democratic government having been restored in Greece, on 14 August 1974 massively extended her invasion to occupy 36.4% of Cyprus, driving out well over 170,000 Greek Cypriot refugees and moving her army to the aptly named 'Attila line'. That Turkey committed atrocities in the course of her invasion is scarcely surprising in view of her record in the Balkans, in Syria, in Armenia and in Anatolia and her long-standing policies of population expulsion and transfer and of discrimination against non-Turkish ethnic groups."
</blockquote>


	These atrocities <a href="http://www.kypros.org/Cyprus_Problem/Turkish-Atrocities.html#3">include</a> murders of Greek Cypriot civilians including children, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances of civilians, wholesale and repeated rapes, eviction and displacement of Greek Cypriots from their homes and land, looting, seizure and distribution of houses and business premises belonging to Greek Cypriots, forced labor of detainees, and <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.cy/mfa/embassies/embassy_thehague.nsf/CF30C1833A24D2FCC22578B00036FA20/%24file/Destruction%20of%20cultural%20heritage%20(English%20version).pdf">cultural destruction</a> of churches and graveyards, among others.


	The rapes were also confirmed by a 1976 report by the European Commission of Human Rights.


	"Even women of ages up to 80 were savagely raped by members of the Turkish forces," the report said. "In some areas forced prostitution of Greek Cypriot girls continues to be practiced. Many women who remained in the Turkish occupied areas became pregnant as a result of the rapes committed by the Turkish troops."


	The rapes were so widespread that the Church of Cyprus was compelled to relax its previous strictures on abortion. The Red Cross also reportedly <a href="https://www.akel.org.cy/en/2016/02/06/painful-wound-cyprus-tragedy-dark-rape-tactic-war/#.XzzveNozZPY">sent</a> pills to the prisoners and enclaved people in the occupied areas in case of pregnancy.


	On August 5, 1974, the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/06/archives/villagers-driven-from-cyprus-homes-charge-murder-and-rape-by-turks.html">reported</a> that "Greek Cypriots from small villages around Kyrenia told stories today of murder, rape and looting by the Turkish Army after its invasion of Cyprus."


	The NYT interviewed victims and eye witnesses of the atrocities. One was a young woman, aged 20, who refused to be identified.


	She "told of how she was raped, after she had seen her fiance machine‐gunned with other men in her village. 'When my fiancé was killed I threw myself into a ditch to hide —I was terrified,' she said, adding: 'As I was lying there a Turkish soldier grabbed hold of me. He threw me, to the ground and tore off my clothes. I tried desperately to escape but he was holding me at gunpoint. He said he would kill me. At one point another soldier came up with a baby in his arms. He asked who was the mother. I thought if I said it was mine it might save me. However, when I said I was the mother he threw it to the ground'."


	The crimes committed during the Turkish invasion are well-documented.


	“On August 14,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/cyprus/11038580/Famagusta-the-ghost-town-at-the-heart-of-Cyprus.html">wrote</a>&nbsp;author Victoria Hislop, “the Greek Cypriot population fled in terror, in cars, on buses, by foot, taking nothing but the clothes they stood up in. They expected help from a foreign power, but none came, and their evacuation turned into weeks, then months, then decades.”


	As was the case with tens of thousands of other Cypriots, the life of Maria Hadjivasili, who grew up in 1960s Famagusta, also changed completely after the occupation of her town:

<blockquote>
	
		“We&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2786705/the-day-family-fled-famagusta-life-changed-turkey-invaded-cyprus-1974.html">heard that</a>&nbsp;civilians had been killed and women raped,” she said. “People were anxious for their daughters. I heard that one of my school friends was raped and killed.”
</blockquote>


	Sadly, during the period of the Turkish invasion, world opinion did not raise much of an outcry. Since there still is no international outrage, the occupation continues and it is accompanied by similar rights abuses.


	On June 21, 2013, for example, Koray Başdoğrultmacı and Çinel Senem Hüseyin, a Turkish-speaking Cypriot couple living in the occupied north of Cyprus, were&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8zQUczpxq8">arrested</a>&nbsp;and kept in jail for 6 1/2 hours. Their&nbsp;<a href="http://cyprus-mail.com/2015/05/14/turkish-cypriot-couple-face-fourth-charge-in-flag-debacle/">trial</a>&nbsp;lasted for months, until all charges were dropped against them in June 2015.


	Their<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/olena-kagui/patriots-punished-in-nort_b_6993574.html">&nbsp;crime</a>? Flying three Cypriot flags outside their home and shop.


	The Turkish government does not even recognize the Republic of Cyprus and calls it the “Southern Greek Cypriot Administration”. “The claim put forth thereafter by the Greek Cypriots to represent the ‘Republic of Cyprus’ has been illegal, and has not been recognized by Turkey,” claims&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mfa.gov.tr/cyprus-issue-_summary_.en.mfa" target="_blank">Turkey’s foreign ministry</a>. It also&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mfa.gov.tr/the-cyprus-issue-overview.en.mfa" target="_blank">asserts that&nbsp;</a>Cyprus is “geographically an extension of the Anatolian peninsula” and “has never been a Greek island.”


	The ministry cannot be more wrong. Cyprus has been a majority-Greek island for millennia – demographically and culturally. The Turkish presence in Cyprus, however, only dates back to the Ottoman occupation from 1571 to 1878.&nbsp; Never until the Turkish military intervention in 1974 did the northern part of Cyprus have a Turkish majority. Both the north and south of the island were majority-Greek and majority-Christian until then.&nbsp;Nonetheless, the myth of Cyprus being a Turkish island is popular with many Turks.&nbsp;In 2018, Erdogan even&nbsp;<a href="https://odatv.com/vid_video.php?id=8B6GH" target="_blank">said at a press conference</a>: “There is no country called Cyprus.”


	Before Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974, however, its borders were internationally recognized.&nbsp;The document that granted&nbsp;Cyprus&nbsp;independence in 1960 was signed by&nbsp;<a href="https://peacemaker.un.org/cyprus-greece-turkey-guarantee60" target="_blank">three “guarantor” states</a>&nbsp;– the United Kingdom, Greece, and Turkey – all of which committed themselves to respect&nbsp;Cyprus’s independence and territorial integrity. The Turkish invasion&nbsp;in 1974, therefore, was a <a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/02/26/turkey-drillship-operation-2020/">violation of Turkey’s commitments</a>. As a result of the invasion, Turkey has changed the demographic character of the northern part of the island and turned it into a majority-Turkish area.


	To this day, refugees and displaced persons are denied their right to return and reclaim their homes and lands in the Turkish-occupied north. Citizens of the Republic of Cyprus are not free to live wherever they wish in their own country. The "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" (the "TRNC") in the occupied north was de-facto manufactured in 1983 by Turks and for Turks. It is recognized by Turkey only.


	Since 1974, nothing has changed in occupied northern Cyprus except for the increased number of settlers imported from Turkey. The Turkish government still cannot even tolerate the Cypriot flag in Cyprus and illegally keeps the island divided in a system of apartheid and ethno-religious segregation. For 46 years, the northern part of Cyprus has been ethnically cleansed and colonized at the hands of Turkey, a NATO member and a perpetual candidate for European Union membership.


	Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist and political analyst formerly based in Ankara. Her writings have appeared in The Washington Times, The American Spectator, The Christian Post, and The Jerusalem Post, among many other news outlets. Bulut’s journalistic work focuses mainly on human rights, Turkish politics and history, religious minorities in the Middle East, and antisemitism.

Cyprus: 46 Years of Turkish Occupation

What does the international community often think when they hear "Cyprus"? A beautiful island country in the Eastern Mediterranean? A heavenly holiday

A Turkish pro-government writer recently threatened the political opposition in the country and her own neighbors with death on national TV.


	On May 3, Sevda Noyan&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.krttv.com.tr/amp/gundem/ulke-tv-canli-yayininda-muhaliflere-olum-tehditleri-listem-hazir-h34942.html">said</a>&nbsp;on Ülke TV that in the event of a coup attempt, her family can kill at least fifty people, including some neighbors. She said she made a list of people to kill.


	Referring to the events following the coup attempt on July 15, 2016, when many supporters of Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan took to the streets upon the president’s call to defend the government, Noyan said:


	“We couldn’t do what we exactly wanted [on July 15, 2016]. We got caught unprepared.


	“Do not get it wrong; get it right,” she continued. “My family alone can take down about fifty people. We are very well equipped materially and spiritually. We stand by our leader; we will never let him be thrown to the wolves in this country. Let them watch their steps. There are 3-5 [neighbors] in my gated community; my list is ready.”


	The moderator of the show, Esra Elönü, supported Noyan, saying: “They should watch all their steps.”


	Following the coup attempt in 2016, many people were arrested and jailed in Turkey for allegedly “helping stage the coup attempt.”


	“Many of those people,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amnesty.org.uk/aftermath-failed-turkey-coup-torture-beatings-and-rape">reported</a>&nbsp;the Amnesty International, “are being subjected to beatings and torture, including rape, in official and unofficial detention centers in the country.


	“Despite chilling images and videos of torture that have been widely broadcast across the country, the government has so far remained silent on the abuse.”


	Targeting your fellow citizens, or even neighbors, is a long-held tradition in Turkey. For instance, during the 1914-1923&nbsp;<a href="https://hellenicresearchcenter.org/genocide-info/anatolian-greek-genocide/">Christian genocide</a>&nbsp;that targeted Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks in Ottoman Turkey, it was not just the Ottoman soldiers that attacked Christians.


	Christians were also targeted by their own Muslim neighbors, largely in response to the jihad (an Islamic holy war) declared in 1914 in Constantinople – first by the Sultan and then the religious leader Sheikh-ul-Islam – on behalf of the Ottoman government.


	“These declarations of jihad,”&nbsp;<a href="https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1233&amp;context=gsp">writes</a>&nbsp;Professor Hannibal Travis, “‘incited wrath toward Christian minorities in the Ottoman lands, and … later facilitated the government’s program of Genocide against the Armenians’—and, as it happened, the Assyrians.


	“The evidence is overwhelming that Turks and their Kurdish allies massacred tens, and more likely hundreds, of thousands of Assyrians in order to exterminate the Christian population; raped and enslaved hundreds, and more likely thousands, of Assyrian women in a systematic fashion; and deported the Assyrians en masse from their ancestral lands under conditions that led to famine and widespread death.”


	All Christians have suffered the same fate without differentiation to race or denomination,&nbsp;<a href="https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1233&amp;context=gsp">notes</a>&nbsp;Professor Travis.


	“Greek men became victims of murder, torture, and starvation; Greek women suffered all this and also became slaves in Muslim households; Greek children wandered the streets as orphans ‘half-naked and begging for bread’; and millions of dollars’ worth of Greek property passed into Muslim hands.”


	Turkey still aggressively denies this crime. Those who publicly acknowledge it might be prosecuted and jailed.


	Since then, what has remained unchanged in Turkey is wanton violence or threats of violence against religious minorities and dissidents. During the 1934 anti-Jewish pogroms in eastern Thrace, the 1955 anti-Greek pogroms in Istanbul, the 1978 Alevi massacres in Maraş, and many other atrocities, non-Muslims were always at the receiving end of severe abuses.


	This author&nbsp;<a href="https://armenianweekly.com/2017/09/08/turkeys-genocide-denial-four-narratives/">wrote</a>&nbsp;in 2017:


	“The Turkish Republic, established in 1923, still has not officially recognized, has not apologized for, or made reparations for any of the crimes or wrongdoings at any time in its history.


	“And never once in their history have Turkish people taken to the streets en masse in protest as the non-Muslim citizens of the country were (and still are) exposed to persecution such as pogroms, massacres, or confiscations of their properties. The Turkish state has carried out its annihilationist policies either with the active participation or the silent approval of the vast majority of the public.”


	Since the founding of the state ninety-seven years ago, Turkey has allowed only two ideologies to grow in the country: Islam and Turkish nationalism. All other religions, cultures, ideas and philosophies have been violently oppressed.


	And the state-sanctioned Islamic and Turkist ideologies have created a widespread culture of intolerance and violence.


	In order to better understand this culture, one needs to analyze Islam’s view on the kafir, or the “unbeliever.”


	Dr. Bill Warner, the founding President of the Center for the Study of Political Islam International (CSPII), &nbsp;<a href="https://www.cspii.org/education/articles/kafir/">explains</a>:


	“The language of Islam is dualistic. There is a division of humanity into believer and kafir (unbeliever). Humanity is divided into those who believe Mohammed is the prophet of Allah and those who do not.


	“A Muslim is never the true friend of a Kafir. Kafirs can be enslaved, raped, beheaded, plotted against, terrorized, and humiliated. A Kafir is not a full human.


	“When you read the complete Islamic doctrine of Koran, Sira (the biography of Mohammed), and the Hadith (the traditions of Mohammed), you will find that Islam is fixated on the Kafir. Over half of the Koran is about the Kafir, not Muslims. It is the stated purpose of the Islamic textual doctrine to annihilate every Kafir by conversion, subjugation or death. Jihad can be waged against the Kafir.”


	For decades, the initial target of many Muslims in Turkey was Christians, Jews, Yazidis and other non-Muslims.


	Now that there are almost no Christians or Jews left in the country, many Turks are largely targeting their fellow Muslims for having differing political opinions.


	And while writers and TV presenters proudly declare on national TV that they are looking forward to killing their own neighbors, many innocent, peace-loving journalists are&nbsp;<a href="http://platform24.org/en/articles/767/freedom-of-expression-and-the-press-in-turkey---242">lingering in jails</a>. This appears to be one of the greatest shames of Turkey.


	Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist and political analyst formerly based in Ankara.

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