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Turkey? Antisemitic? Who, Me?
by Burak Bekdil
• October 1, 2014 at 5:00 am
"Why
are you running away, you sperm of Israel?" — President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, to a Muslim protestor.
"Being
a sperm of Israel in Turkey means... to get used to living on hate speech,
insults and curses every day; held accountable for every act of the Israeli
government although you may never even have stepped foot in Israel; treated
as a 'foreigner' in the country where you were born, served in the military
and you pay taxes." — Vedat Haymi Behar, digital marketing solutions
coordinator, in Radikal.
Last May an explosion at a mine in western Turkey killed 301 miners.
Ankara declared national mourning. But President (then-Prime Minister) Recep
Tayyip Erdogan's response to the town's grief was unusual for a head of a
government.
After protestors scolded him, he, with his bodyguards, went into a
supermarket and, as video footage revealed, Erdogan grabbed one protestor, a
Muslim, by the nape of the neck and yelled: "Why are you running away,
you sperm of Israel!" After the incident the man also told the press
that he was slapped by Erdogan; then, thinking better of it, the man
testified that he had been beaten by Erdogan's bodyguards, not by the prime
minister; and he finally apologized to Erdogan for "forcing the prime
minister to insult him."
Salmond's Legacy for Scotland: Civil War
by Malcolm Lowe
• October 1, 2014 at 4:00 am
The
losers are declaring war on all who disagree with them. They have adopted
Salmond's attempts to pit one part of the population against another: not
just young against old, but manual workers against the middle classes, city slum
dwellers against country people, men against women, any section of the
population that preferred Yes against another section that did the opposite.
The
foolish devotion of Labour councilors to Palestinian militancy paved the way
for nationalist mania.
By a 10% majority, the inhabitants of Scotland voted No to the question:
"Should Scotland be an independent country?" The first reaction of
Alex Salmond, the leader of the Yes campaign, was to admit defeat and resign
as head of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and as First Minister of the
devolved Scottish government. Within a day or two, however, he began urging
the minority of Yes voters to delegitimize the majority and to work for a
seizure of independence in the future by any available maneuvers.
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