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Erdogan says Turks in Europe should defy 'grandchildren of Nazism'
Reuters ^ | April 3, 2017 | David Dolan

Posted on 04/03/2017 9:43:39 AM PDT by C19fan

President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on Turkish voters in Europe to defy the "grandchildren of Nazism" and back a referendum this month on changing the constitution, comments likely to cause further ire in Europe.

Erdogan has repeatedly lashed out at European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, in campaigning for the referendum, accusing them of "Nazi-like" tactics for banning his ministers from speaking to rallies of Turkish voters abroad.

(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Germany
KEYWORDS: erdogan; turkey

1 posted on 04/03/2017 9:43:39 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Gee, and here I almost forgot all about the “Grand Mufti” and his support FOR HITLER in the 1930’s....

Erdogan can EPSAD

( Eat Pig $#!T & Die )


2 posted on 04/03/2017 9:46:41 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: GraceG

Heinrich Himmler’s Remarkable Admiration For Islam: “It Promises Beautiful Women In Heaven”

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3964

In this, Himmler basically admits he wished the Turks had won the “Battle of Vienna.”


3 posted on 04/03/2017 9:49:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: C19fan

According to Albert Speer, Hitler stated in private, “The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”


4 posted on 04/03/2017 9:50:27 AM PDT by dfwgator
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It seems to me that Hitler did to the German Constitution just what Erdogan is just about to do.


5 posted on 04/03/2017 9:57:59 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: GraceG

Yes - I would think that for Islamists like Erdogan, the Nazis and their actions were “a good thing” that he celebrates in private.


6 posted on 04/03/2017 10:09:35 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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He knows what words sting the Germans to suicidal self-abasement. But no one should be stung by any slurs coming from a Turk of all people. What kind of guilt has Erdogan ever felt for the historic sins of his people?

None, which ought to tell the Germans something about the relative worth of their culture.


7 posted on 04/03/2017 11:20:17 AM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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Letting Turkey into NATO was a huge mistake that needs to be remediated.


8 posted on 04/03/2017 12:10:27 PM PDT by doc maverick (I)
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