TURKEY’S ANTI-GENOCIDE CLAIM HARD TO STOMACH
By Pat Flanagan
The Mirror
May 15, 2009 Friday
UK
APPARENTLY there was no holocaust and all this nonsense about millions
being murdered is rubbish.
It was all made up by racists determined to blacken the good name of,
er, Turkey.
Holocaust deniers can get themselves into bother, depending on which
holocaust they deny.
Claim the Nazis and a sizable section of the German population did
not murder between five and seven million Jews and you end up in
the slammer.
Deny that Turkey slaughtered between one and three million Armenians
and you are likely to get a Nobel peace award.
Let me explain. You see Turkey is very keen to join the EU and many
member states are up for it. This one included.
Although an estimated 70 per cent of the European public do not want
Turkey, there is little we can do about it.
They used to say "don’t mention the war" when we were talking to
the Germans but when it comes to Turkey it’s a case of don’t mention
the genocide.
You see during the First World
War the Turks didn’t quite succeed in exterminating the Armenians,
but they had a fair bash at it.
They shot, stabbed and starved anything from one to three million
although the agreed figure is around 1.5 million.
Don’t take my word for it, during his election campaign President
Barack Obama said he stood by the Armenian American community in
calling for the Turks to admit the "Armenian Genocide".
And the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi
went further and recently said: "It is long past time for the US
government to formally recognise the Armenian genocide." But the
Turks are having none of it and not only will they not say sorry,
they are denying it ever happened.
In short, they are a nation of holocaust deniers and there’s plenty
like them in the EU.
You might well say, ‘So what? That happened a long time ago and it
has nothing to do with us.
It’s history’.
Well actually it has everything to do with us because if Turkey is
allowed to join the EU it will be the end of Europe as we know it.
Apart from the fact that only a tiny fraction of Turkey is on the
European continent, Turkey appears to want to join the EU for all
the wrong reasons.
Most countries, including our own, joined the Union in pursuit of
material benefits but they were all prepared to give up a little bit
of themselves and their sovereignty.
It would appear ultra-nationalistic
Turkey believes that they can be part of the EU without any cultural
attachment.
But that is to be expected, because they do not have any cultural
attachment.
Turkey’s relationship with Europe has not been a happy one and its
accession to the EU would be a disaster for all.
Lets face facts, the Greeks hate the Turks and the Turks hate the
Greeks. Saying they have a history is a bit of an understatement. .
The reason Cyprus is divided is because these two communities just
can’t stand each other.
Making the Turks EU citizens will not wipe out a millennium of
bitterness and bloodletting.
Indeed there’s every chance we could end up with a Yugoslav situation.
The question ordinary people should ask themselves is does the EU
need an Islamic state with 80 million Muslims into the heart of the
European Union? They might also ponder what effect millions of Turkish
workers would have on the European labour market, especially after
our experience with Gama Construction and their EUR3-anhour workers.
The experience of France, Germany and the UK in relation to large
immigration should act as a warning of what the future holds if Turkey
is allowed in.
It is no co-incidence France and Germany are totally against Turkey
joining. The recent massacre of 44 men, women and chil- dren at an
engagement in the eastern Turkish village of Bilge should also act
as a warning.
The reality is that outside the capital, Istanbul and a few other urban
centres Turkey is a traditional Muslim country like its neighbours
Syria and Iraq.
Yes, Iraq. Imagine the EU having a border with that powder keg? What
will happen when the US pulls out? Will EU troops, and Irish soldiers,
be needed to defend the border? There is also the little matter of
the persecution of Christians.
Like the Armenian genocide, this never happens, if the Turkish
government is to believed.
But most worrying of all is Turkey’s war with the Kurds.
Does the EU want to inherit a bloody war that could spread to
Europe? The EU was set up to ensure Europe would never again be
ravaged by war.
It would be a tragic irony if we imported a readymade conflict along
with a state that has no place in Europe..What effect will millions
of Turkish workers have on the labour markets