STOP IMAGINING JUST LOOK AT TURKEY!

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Sent to The Economist : Saturday, February 09, 2008

Imagine Nazi Rule in Turkey, surviving for decades, with the chauvinist
Young Turk regime and ideology defeated but quickly revived after WWI
with western headgear replacing the Young Turk Fez! Imagine then a
"reform/Islamist Nationalist Turk" (call him M-abdulah Gul-bach or
Ragib Erdogab) coming to power in the late 1990s and …

Then STOP IMAGINING and just look at Turkey! Having committed massacres
in the 19th century and Genocide in the 20th century against its
Armenian, Assyrian and Greek (Christian) populations wiping them and
their entire civilisations out almost completely (from 25% of Ottoman
population in 1900 to less than 0.25% now after a 100 years when it
should have stayed at least static even without any growth but without
mass slaughter either!), having been defeated in WWI but, unlike the
Nazi state and criminals, not dismantled, punished or prosecuted, all
its governments since 1918 have denied and distorted the fact of their
genocidal past and continue to do so with impunity up to the present,
even enjoying full support from the likes of the Economist, the UK and
the US, with occasional mild criticism. It maintains an authoritarian,
virulently nationalist and now Islamist government which prosecutes
its own journalists, publishers and Nobel Prize winning authors for
"insulting Turkishness", that is the very few who dare or are brave
enough to speak the truth about Turkey’s criminal past in general or
refer to the Armenian Genocide!

Furthermore, this unpunished and unreformed staunchly chauvinist
nationalist Turkey, heavily militarised and armed to its teeth,
is invading at will (Cyprus, 1973, Iraq, the Kurds repeatedly…) or
threatening to invade and bullying its other large and small neighbours
(Greece in the Aegean and Armenia ever since its independence in
1991)… . It is blockading Armenia and keeping the border with it
closed (the only closed border in Europe) and refusing to establish
diplomatic relations with it until it meets Turkey’s various bullying
preconditions, such as accepting that it – Armenia – committed Genocide
against Turkey and apologises to it!

The Economist has never exposed Turkey’s heinous criminal past
properly, the murder of 1.5 million Armenians and their civilisation,
or its present unacceptable authoritarian regime and its internal
repression or external bullying, especially towards Armenia.

In fact the Economist is one of the main advocates of its membership
of European Union and other democratic organisations.

Yet the very same Economist is devoting hypocritical and false
editorials and comments about the apparent dangers emanating from
Putin’s Russia, of all things over the Katyn massacres, when the
Russian government is on record for accepting the Stalinist era crime;
just because some cranky old Soviet era General has written an article
or a book denying the involvement of the Stalinist era NKVD!

What rank hypocrisy and warped Disraelian anti-Russian propaganda. The
Economists agenda is a new cold war against Russia so any petty and
disgusting lie will do to paint Russia in cold war distorted shades.

Equally, the same warped ideology still needs the real
authoritarian/unreformed even barbarian Turkey as a buffer against
Russia so will go to any length to protect it.

The Economist, like the British government, has no credibility or
any constructive European ideas but peddling the same old, warped
and now bankrupt cold war rhetoric.