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by Vijeta Uniyal
• December 20, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Islamic State
took responsibility for the December 19 Berlin truck-ramming attack
that killed 12 people, similar to the July 14 attack in the French
city of Nice, and countless car-rammings in Israel. Now Europeans
feel what Israelis live with every day.
- This month, the
police union in the German state of Thuringia issued an open letter
to the state's Interior Minister, describing the crumbling
law-and-order situation amid the rising migrant crime: "[You]
are abandoning us completely helpless to a superior force... But what
changes? Nothing. One instead gets a sense of uninterest."
- Meanwhile,
representatives of Arab community were reported telling the police
in Ruhr, "The police will not win a war with us because we are
too many."
- Chancellor
Merkel, Germany's ruling elites and the media can continue putting a
happy face on uncontrolled mass-migration from Arab and Muslim
lands, or suppress news reporting on rising migrant crime, but they
cannot wish away the country's deteriorating law and order
situation.
- It should be
evident to even a casual observer that her government still does not
care about the victims of its own failed "refugee" policy.
Police confer at the site of the December 19
car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in Berlin. (Image source: RT
video screenshot)
Monday's terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market killed at
least 12 people and injured 50 others. Islamic State took responsibility
for the truck-ramming attack, as recommend by the al-Qaeda magazine, Inspire,
and similar to the July 14 attack in the French city of Nice, and
countless car-rammings in Israel. Now Europeans feel what Israelis live
with every day.
Earlier this year, Germany was hit by a series of ISIS-inspired
attacks and failed terror plots. Despite that almost all the perpetrators
were recent Syrian or Afghan migrants, German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
in the middle of a re-election bid, has stuck to her claim that there is
"no connection" between terror attacks in the country and
uncontrolled mass migration from Arab and Muslim lands.
Ahead of an election year, Merkel and her coalition partners also
want to avoid another mass sexual attack -- in Cologne.
by Burak Bekdil
• December 20, 2016 at 4:00 am
- Turkey's
Kurdish problem is not a military one. On the contrary, the military
aspect of the problem is the consequence, not the root cause.
Turkey's Kurds have been demanding a homeland since the 19th
century -- long before the modern Turkish state was born in 1923.
- It is time that
Ankara rethinks its diagnosis about the Kurdish dispute. The Turks
can start by asking themselves why their Kurdish compatriots choose
to live in mountainous hideouts, fight, kill or be killed.
- In this year's
Rule of Law Index, released by the World Justice Project, Turkey
ranked 99th out of 113 countries, scoring worse than
Nigeria and Myanmar.
The aftermath of one of the two December 10 bombs in
Istanbul. The attacks killed 44 people and injured more than 150. (Image
source: CCTV America video screenshot)
Turkey can sometimes look like a bad joke. Turkey sits in the lowest
ranks of any credible index measuring press freedoms and the rule of law.
Reporters Without Borders, for instance, in its 2016 report, put
Turkey into the 151st place out of a list of 180 countries --
ranked below Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan.
In this year's Rule of Law Index, released by the World Justice
Project, Turkey ranked 99th out of 113 countries, scoring
worse than Nigeria and Myanmar.
Turkey's leaders, nevertheless, recently condemned the state of
press freedoms in Europe and the United States. An official statement
claimed that press freedoms had a problematic and restrictive state in
"Western democracies such as, France, Germany, England, Sweden, Spain,
Netherlands and the USA."
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