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    American Thinker, WA
    Feb 1 2009


    Turkish Prime Minister redefines 'outrage'


    Jack Kemp

    Days ago, the Turkish Prime Minister walked off a stage in Davos,
    Switzerland when he was engaged in a heated argument with Israeli
    President Shimon Peres. Prime Minister Edrogan angrily stated to Peres
    that "You are killing people" and "A finger-pointing Peres told
    Erdogan at Thursday's panel that he would have done the same if
    rockets had been falling on Istanbul."

    Since the Turkish Prime Minister is so incensed about civilian
    casualties caused largely by Hamas using human shields, forced or
    otherwise, perhaps he should consider the glass house whose door he
    has just opened.

    Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize winning 2002 book, "A Problem From
    Hell, America and the Age of Genocide," points out, on page one, that
    in 1921 the former Turkish Interior Minister Mehmet Talaat, was shot
    on a street in Berlin by an Armenian. This was an organized revenge
    killing for the Turkish genocide of one million Armenian civilians in
    World War I. Years later, Ms. Power states, on page 23 that, "In 1942,
    Hitler restored Talaat's ashes to Turkey, where the Turkish government
    enshrined the fallen hero's remains in a mausoleum on the Hill of
    Liberty in Istanbul.

    Page eight of Ms. Power's book informs us in further detail exactly of
    what type of "hero" Interior Minister Talaat was by the indirect open
    admission of the liquidation of the Armenian population of Turkey he
    made to an American diplomat at that time:


    Talaat once asked (then American Ambassador) Morganthau whether the
    United States could get the New York Life Insurance Company and
    Equitable Life of New York, which for years had done business with the
    Armenians, to send a complete list of the Armenians policy holders to
    Turkish authorities. "They are practically all dead and have left no
    heirs," Talaat said, "The government is the beneficiary now."


    So we have the current prime minister of a country that killed one
    million unarmed Armenians and honors, to this day, one of the chief
    architects of that genocide with a hero's grave at a national cemetery
    in his nation's capitol. This prime minister now states that he is
    outraged by Israel waging war against an actual rocket-launching enemy
    which resulted in some civilian casualties in Gaza, an area allowed
    food and water to its' civilian population by the Israelis. There
    still are approximately one million civilians living in Gaza.


    Well, at least we all can better understand the origins of Prime
    Minister Edrogan's mindset by seeing who his government honors. I
    would like to know at what point (in terms of body count) and by what
    means one becomes a hero rather than a murderer in Mr. Edrogan's
    opinion.


    Jack Kemp is not the politician of the same name.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02 /turkish_prime_minister_redefin.html
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