By Jane Edwards.
Turkey, the Middle Eastern nation with one foot well established in Europe, is ruled by the Justice and Development Party whose roots are in political Islam. End of last month four women members entered the Assembly wearing head scarves – a break with the secular tradition introduced by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk after W1 who ensured that for 90 years the Turkish government was free from religious control.
So what, you might think. “Those ladies were only exercising their democratic rights.” There is more to it than that. It is just another symptom of Turkey drifting slowly but surely into a more fundamentalist-minded Islamic state. I knew and enjoyed Turkey where hospitable people practised their religion in a laid-back manner, much as many still do with Christianity in England. Although still a member of NATO (with the largest army I believe) Turkey still harbours hopes of becoming a member of the EU – thus giving Europe a further 80 million Moslems, many of whom will have been turned into fundamentalists. Are we to assume that this is the reason why it is so ready to let thousands of immigrants from Asia, Middle East and even Africa pass through its country regularly into Greece, its long term implacable enemy?
In fact this is the main route of Afro-Asian-Middles Eastern immigrants into Europe, and after passing through another dozen or more countries some reach Britain either by the back of a lorry or by claiming asylum.
It seems to me that the British Democrats, on this website, were the first to point out that although we may have our reservations on the way Bashar al-Assad controls Syria, the so-called rebels are dominated by jihadists who are ready to bring greater cruelties to the Syrian people – particularly the Christians and Alawites. Hundreds of al-Qaeda jihadists are being kept in safe houses over the border in Turkey before being smuggled into Syria. According to some UK press reports they include so-called Britons. The Turkish premises are also being used as rest houses for al-Qaeda fighters from the Syrian front line.
The Turkish Government must know about this which contradicts its membership of NATO. Even if it is true, as it claims, that it does not back .this officially, then at least it is turning a blind eye to the passage of these jihadist recruits.
Bashar al-Assad said on October 30th that any foreign support for rebel terrorists for must end before any political solution to the country’s conflict could succeed.
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I have noticed that now that the ‘gung-ho’ politicians of the West, together with their familiars, the journalists, have almost nothing to say now about the ongoing conflict in Syria. One would think that Syria no longer exists.
Re: “The Turkish Government must know about this which contradicts its membership of NATO. ” I don’t understand this statement in light of the fact that Turkey is clearly working to a US or, more accurately, Zionist agenda.