Turkish Anti-Semitism

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At MEMRI, the first of several reports on anti-semitism in the Turkish media. With Mein Kampf in the bestseller list, here’s Abdurrahim Karakoç, a columnist at the Islamic newspaper Vakit:

It is impossible not to admire the foresight of Adolph Hitler, who is presented to public opinion as ‘racist, sadistic, and monstrous.’ Way back then, Hitler foresaw what would happen these [present] days. He cleansed off these swindler Jews, who believe in racism for a religion and take pleasure in bathing the world in blood, because he knew that they would become [this] big a curse for the world.

Plenty more where that came from.

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  1. Mark Leaman Avatar

    Turkey, Israel and Anti-Semitism
    There has always been anti-Semitism in Turkey, just as anti-semitism has permeated through all cultures based on Islam. Up until about two years past there were substantial Israeli military contracts with Turkey. These were mostly in areas such as upgrading Turkey’s M-60 tanks and in the supply of a variant of the Israeli Popeye Lite missile to Turkey. This military co-operation has now wound down.
    What has changed in the last two years is that Israel has been providing military aid, mostly as training, to the Kurds in northern Iraq. This is based on the long standing Israeli strategy of “the alliance of the periphery” whereby Israel has regulary supported various allies against their Arab neighbours. The Turks are incensed. Turkey does not want an independant Kurdish state. Accordingly, the official discouragement against anti-Semitism is disappearing.

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