When a Kurdish child is worth less than another child
When a Kurdish child is worth less than another child
“Hamas won the election. You are always talking about democracy. You’ll never let Hamas rule. What kind of democracy is this?”
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan spoke without restrains on Friday at a rally held in Konya.
It's hard to believe the double standard used by the Prime Minister, but here it is. The premier reiterated his hard words against the Israeli government over Monday’s attack against the Gaza-bound aid convoy. Underlining that one of the orders of the Ten Commandments prohibits Jews from killing, he said “If you do not understand it in Turkish I will say it in English: You shall not kill,” he said. He also said the same phrase in Hebrew.
“They even slaughtered 19-year-old Furkan. They did not even care for the babies in the cradle,” Erdoðan added.
While the Prime Minister was saying these words, a mother in Þirnak was asking why her son had been killed, crushed by a armored police vehicle. And above all the mother was asking who is responsible for her son's death. Young Firat was only 14. His life taken away from him by a police vehicle that run over him. It happened in Þirnak.
Police attacked demonstrations in Silopi on Thursday and on Friday clashes were reported at other marches for peace. The marches are organized by the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party). The PKK has called off its unilateral ceasefire on 1 June. After 13 months - that is how long the truce lasted - the efforts and proposals by the Kurdish people and their representatives have been ignored by the government.
It is worth to notice that yesterday in Konya the Prime Minister pointed out his opinion on Hamas. “I do not think that Hamas is a terrorist organization. I said the same thing to the United States. I am still of the same opinion. They are Palestinians in resistance, fighting for their own land”.
Again the double standard approach of the Prime Minister is obvious: on the one hand he defends the right of Hamas as an elected representative movement to do politics, while on the other hand - at home - he is branding legally elected Kurdish MPs and local administrators as terrorists preventing them for doing their job by sending them to prison or (as it was in the case of the DTP - Democratic Society Party - only last December) by banning the party and closing it down.
The Prime Minister, as it has become a feature of his speeches recently, had hard words of criticism for the media as well. “These columnists will report my words of today as well. We know their past, their background.” he said, referring to the way the media has underlined the government stance against Israel and its 'sympathetic' eye towards Hamas.
Repeating his harsh words against the Israeli government over Monday’s incident, the prime minister recalled that one of the orders of the Ten Commandments prohibits Jews from killing. “If you do not understand it in Turkish I will say it in English: You shall not kill,” he said. He also said the same phrase in Hebrew.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan spoke without restrains on Friday at a rally held in Konya.
It's hard to believe the double standard used by the Prime Minister, but here it is. The premier reiterated his hard words against the Israeli government over Monday’s attack against the Gaza-bound aid convoy. Underlining that one of the orders of the Ten Commandments prohibits Jews from killing, he said “If you do not understand it in Turkish I will say it in English: You shall not kill,” he said. He also said the same phrase in Hebrew.
“They even slaughtered 19-year-old Furkan. They did not even care for the babies in the cradle,” Erdoðan added.
While the Prime Minister was saying these words, a mother in Þirnak was asking why her son had been killed, crushed by a armored police vehicle. And above all the mother was asking who is responsible for her son's death. Young Firat was only 14. His life taken away from him by a police vehicle that run over him. It happened in Þirnak.
Police attacked demonstrations in Silopi on Thursday and on Friday clashes were reported at other marches for peace. The marches are organized by the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party). The PKK has called off its unilateral ceasefire on 1 June. After 13 months - that is how long the truce lasted - the efforts and proposals by the Kurdish people and their representatives have been ignored by the government.
It is worth to notice that yesterday in Konya the Prime Minister pointed out his opinion on Hamas. “I do not think that Hamas is a terrorist organization. I said the same thing to the United States. I am still of the same opinion. They are Palestinians in resistance, fighting for their own land”.
Again the double standard approach of the Prime Minister is obvious: on the one hand he defends the right of Hamas as an elected representative movement to do politics, while on the other hand - at home - he is branding legally elected Kurdish MPs and local administrators as terrorists preventing them for doing their job by sending them to prison or (as it was in the case of the DTP - Democratic Society Party - only last December) by banning the party and closing it down.
The Prime Minister, as it has become a feature of his speeches recently, had hard words of criticism for the media as well. “These columnists will report my words of today as well. We know their past, their background.” he said, referring to the way the media has underlined the government stance against Israel and its 'sympathetic' eye towards Hamas.
Repeating his harsh words against the Israeli government over Monday’s incident, the prime minister recalled that one of the orders of the Ten Commandments prohibits Jews from killing. “If you do not understand it in Turkish I will say it in English: You shall not kill,” he said. He also said the same phrase in Hebrew.
