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by Burak Bekdil
• December 2, 2014 at 5:00 am
His
mistake was not to feel "huge hatred" for Jews, but to express
that feeling in front of cameras. Davutoglu and his cabinet have had a
problem with the governor's speech. They have no problem with his
sentiments.
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Left, Edirne Governor Dursun Sahin Bulent Arinc.
Right, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc.
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"We would view an insult or humiliation against an Alevi
citizen or an adherent of any other religion as an insult against all of
us, and won't accept it." The powerful line is from a speech by Turkish
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Nov. 23. So nice. If only the reality
were not worlds apart from the fairy tales Davutoglu keeps on telling.
Davutoglu's Putin-Medvedev-style master, President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, is notorious for his Sunni supremacist (and anti-Alevi) views.
During his election campaign in 2011, he reminded tens of thousands of
party fans at rallies in seven different cities that his political rival
and main opposition leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, was an Alevi. "You
know, he is an Alevi," Erdogan told crowds in a cynical way while
thousands booed "the Alevi Kilicdaroglu." In that election,
Erdogan's votes in all seven cities rose from the previous election.
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