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TURKEY ACCUSES EGYPT OF MASSACRE, EGYPT RESPONDS BY ENDORSING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DECLARATION
FrontPage Magazine
Aug 20 2013
August 20, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield
Game set and match.
Turkey's Islamist leader, Prime Minister Erdogan, threw another fit
over the defeat of his fellow Islamists in Egypt, and disregarding
his own brutal assaults on the Gezi Park protesters, demanded trials
and intervention.
Erdogan also said Egypt's leaders should stand a "fair and transparent"
trial for what he called a "massacre" that unfolded live on televisions
as police smashed two protest camps of supporters of the deposed
Islamist president.
"Anyone or any international organization that remains silent and
takes no action has the blood of those innocent children on their
hands, just like those who carried out the coup."
Speaking of the blood of innocent children on their hands, Erdogan
is backing a murderous Islamist campaign against Syria. And there's
also that pesky Armenian genocide in his country's political DNA.
So Egypt apparently decided to directly retaliate by hitting Turkey's
sore spot.
Al Bawaba News reported, from the Egyptian President Twitter account,
that President Adli Mansour asked Egypt's UN delegate to sign on
the behalf of his Government on the Declaration of recognition of
the Armenian Genocide at the United Nations. If such diplomatic move
occurs it would be psychological equivalent of President Sadat visiting
Israel in 1977.
"While this move is a political retaliation at Prime Minister Recep
Erdogan's aggressive stance against Egypt and in favor of the Ikhwan,"
said an observer in Egypt, "this goes beyond the simple retaliation.
It shows that the new leading team in Cairo is a group of secular,
strategic and long term planning policy makers.
For them to sign on the Armenian Genocide Declaration means that
they intend to wage an ideological war against the Islamists and
the Jihadists in the region. This is not directed against Turks,
particularly secular Turks, this is a strike against Erdogan's
Sultanate and in general terms against the notion of a political
Caliphate as a rallying point of all Islamists in the region."
I wouldn't go quite that far myself. But, if true, it does remind
Turkey that there is a price to pay and that Erdogan has been too
loose in accusing other people of massacres.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/turkey-accuses-egypt-of-massacre-egypt-responds-by-endorsing-armenian-genocide-declaration/
FrontPage Magazine
Aug 20 2013
August 20, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield
Game set and match.
Turkey's Islamist leader, Prime Minister Erdogan, threw another fit
over the defeat of his fellow Islamists in Egypt, and disregarding
his own brutal assaults on the Gezi Park protesters, demanded trials
and intervention.
Erdogan also said Egypt's leaders should stand a "fair and transparent"
trial for what he called a "massacre" that unfolded live on televisions
as police smashed two protest camps of supporters of the deposed
Islamist president.
"Anyone or any international organization that remains silent and
takes no action has the blood of those innocent children on their
hands, just like those who carried out the coup."
Speaking of the blood of innocent children on their hands, Erdogan
is backing a murderous Islamist campaign against Syria. And there's
also that pesky Armenian genocide in his country's political DNA.
So Egypt apparently decided to directly retaliate by hitting Turkey's
sore spot.
Al Bawaba News reported, from the Egyptian President Twitter account,
that President Adli Mansour asked Egypt's UN delegate to sign on
the behalf of his Government on the Declaration of recognition of
the Armenian Genocide at the United Nations. If such diplomatic move
occurs it would be psychological equivalent of President Sadat visiting
Israel in 1977.
"While this move is a political retaliation at Prime Minister Recep
Erdogan's aggressive stance against Egypt and in favor of the Ikhwan,"
said an observer in Egypt, "this goes beyond the simple retaliation.
It shows that the new leading team in Cairo is a group of secular,
strategic and long term planning policy makers.
For them to sign on the Armenian Genocide Declaration means that
they intend to wage an ideological war against the Islamists and
the Jihadists in the region. This is not directed against Turks,
particularly secular Turks, this is a strike against Erdogan's
Sultanate and in general terms against the notion of a political
Caliphate as a rallying point of all Islamists in the region."
I wouldn't go quite that far myself. But, if true, it does remind
Turkey that there is a price to pay and that Erdogan has been too
loose in accusing other people of massacres.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/turkey-accuses-egypt-of-massacre-egypt-responds-by-endorsing-armenian-genocide-declaration/