Posted on 08/03/2017 4:54:05 AM PDT by huldah1776
DIYARBAKIR – Just a few short months ago, visitors approaching Diyarbakir city hall were greeted by a large, black stone statue of a Lammasu – an ancient Assyrian deity with the head of a man, the body of an ox, and the wings of a bird. Now the building is protected by very different guardians: police officers pointing assault rifles out from behind armoured metal outposts.
Turkish officials have been systematically removing Kurdish public monuments and memorials across the country's majority-Kurdish south-east. The city hall's Lammasu is just one of the victims of the statue purge.
Over the past year the Turkish government has carried out an extensive crackdown on Kurdish political parties after the breakdown of a ceasefire between the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish state in 2015 led to brutal street battles in Diyarbakir and other regional cities.
Now that the fighting has largely subsided, the authorities appear to have turned their attention to monuments and expressions of minority culture built by the Kurdish movement.
The list of monuments removed or destroyed includes a mural to a dead Kurdish politician, stone reliefs depicting scenes from the historic Kurdish Marwanid kingdom, and plaques bearing the names of Kurdish children who were shot by security forces during the conflict.
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Are the people removing the Confederate monuments and statues all over the US Turks?
Not necessarily, but they sure do resemble the dictator running Turkey.
Nah....they're the American Taliban. (and I'm a Yankee)
But just think, when they get finished removing all traces of what reminds us of slavery and the brothers start playing that "400 years of oppression" BS again-as we know they will-we can say, "What slavery? Prove it!"
And in other Turdey news (blog)
Two Czech anti-Daesh veterans sentenced to 6.25 years in a Turkish jail
http://motls.blogspot.com/2017/08/two-czech-anti-daesh-veterans-sentenced.html
Turkey is a country in between Europe and the Islamic anticivilization which has been increasingly self-confident, increasingly Islamic, and has done lots of questionable things. Last November, Turkey caught a Czech couple that was fighting against the Islamic State along with the Kurds in Rojava, i.e. the Northern Syrian Kurdistan.
video at source
Some other folks were released but Ms Markéta Všelichová (codename Zelane Botan) and Mr Miroslav Farkas (codename Sniper Serxwebun Botan 007) weren’t too lucky. Their punishment could have been even more severe and lots of people were predicting it. However, we could learn today that they should go to prison for 6 years and 3 months. The most serious formal charge is their membership in YPG, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, which are classified as a “terrorist organization” by Turkey.
I don’t know many details but I find it questionable whether it’s even possible for Turkey to find evidence that they were formally YPG members. What does it even mean for Czechs to be “members” of such a group? Whatever is your definition of membership, what I find essential is that the Kurds are basically fighting a justified if not noble war against the Islamists and folks like Farkas and Všelichová should be supported, not harassed.
Czech authorities have made their research and they determined that it’s impossible for Farkas and Všelichová to have been involved in any terrorist activities. The minister of foreign affairs, Mr Lubomír Zaorálek, expressed “disappointment” after the “stiff prison terms” were announced and he promised to “do everything his ministry can do to make sure that the appeal – that Zaorálek negotiates with Mevlut Cavosuglu, his counterpart – will be dealt with properly”. The Czech embassy in Ankara is regularly communicating with the prisoners.
Hi, Erdogan, I know that you’re reading this blog post. Can’t you just pardon them? You’re just shooting yourself in the foot. Daesh is going to lose its last battles in a foreseeable future and you don’t want a permanent legacy that clumps you with those losers!
posted by luboš motl at 5:17 pm [wed Aug 2, 2017]
Just like the US removing Confederate and Christian monuments. US schools and the msm have been rewriting US history for decades so the truth goes down the memory hole.
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Think about it.
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This one is long a slow, nibbling away at our country's foundation.
The same bigotry being shown toward southern culture in this nation.
All from the same root hatred: xenophobic leftists.
Osmanli Turks were the victors in the long war over Anatolia.
If the Kurds wanted their monuments, they should have won. How many Lakota Sioux villages dot the prairies in the Dakotas?
War has its own rules, its own laws, its own justice.
“Modern” people keep hoping against hope that they can apply the laws of peace to resolve the outcome of ongoing wars, which is foolish in the extreme. War ends with a victor, and not before.
As far as the Confederate monuments go, I believe the decision by Grant to allow Lee’s men to retain their sidearms and horses, and all that flowed from it, all the JEB Stuart high schools, all the Lee highways, all those gray roadside information signs -all that saved the nation, and it was as wise as it was generous.
Also dismissing the Armenian massacre as propaganda and false; like those Holocaust Deniers.
As the great philosopher, Pogo, once said: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
No, but the ones doing it in Turkey are democrats.
*ping*
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