THEIR CENTERFOLD!........
Posted on 08/10/2005 7:39:43 AM PDT by Wiz
The Turkish political weekly Tempo, along with some major Turkish daily newspapers including Milliyet,Aksam and Cumhuriyet, reported that the Islamist Turkish terrorist organization Great East Islamic Raiders Front (IBDA-C) [1] has begun publishing a new weekly, Kaide ("Al-Qaeda" in Turkish) which openly praises its namesake and idolizes Osama bin Laden. Kaide, which looks like an Al-Qaeda bulletin and includes all Al-Qaeda announcements, is published legally in Istanbul and sold at newsstands across Turkey.
It is worth noting that according to Aksam, [2] Kaide is distributed by Yay-Sat, which is Turkey’s largest magazine-newspaper marketing and distribution network. Yay-Sat is owned by the Dogan Media Group, which includes mainstream media outlets in Turkey such as Hurriyet, Milliyet, Radikal, Turkish Daily News, Dunya, and Tempo, as well as TV channels such as CNNTurk and Kanal-D.
"May Allah Protect Bin Laden from the Evil of His Enemies"
The Turkish weekly Tempo interviewed Kaide executive Ali Osman Zor in Kaide' s offices in the Kasimpasa neighborhood of Istanbul. Following are excerpts: [3]
"[…] Even the plain fact that Al-Qaeda has an office in Kasimpasa, in the middle of Istanbul, where they publish this [Kaide] magazine, is frightening. Despite the publishers' claim that they only have 'emotional ties' with Al-Qaeda, the entire Kaide magazine is formatted like an Al-Qaeda bulletin. On the London attacks, their headline read 'Al-Qaeda is Liberating the World,' and many pages are dedicated to statements by Al-Qaeda. The Kaide magazine boasts of the beheadings in Afghanistan and Iraq by saying 'the jihad fighters continue to behead!' and all its pages are filled with frightening statements and threats. Kaide also shows the ties between IBDA-C […] and Al-Qaeda.
(Excerpt) Read more at memri.org ...
Really? Well, 'we' can get copies too and read what they're saying. If it's not on sale at newsstands it'll be sold underground or squirreled away online.
Distasteful, but not necessarily a bad thing.
Well, at least we now know where Turkey stands. Who's up for recapturing Constantiople?
Wonder what the centerfold looks like.
THEIR CENTERFOLD!........
SEE #5
Fall fashions:
See form-obscuring burkas in 12 classic shades:
midnight, charcoal, pitch, liquorice, molasses, macadam, shadow, under-the-bed, skidmark, crude oil, ebony, gun powder and black.
ROFL!
I was JUST about to do that!
Oh well.
They are they most Democratic, free nation in the ME.
If someone wanted to they could publish the same magazine in America. It's called freedom of the press in that Constitution thingy.
And they also have an extremely virulent Islamist movememt kept in check only by the Turkish Army. Turkey doesn't have a particularly strong democratic system.
Think about it....people elect Islamists, Army takes over. No more free elections for the foreseeable future. Islamists get elected, Army fails to take over, also no more free elections until Hell freezes over.
Yep.
Real stable government.
There would be one advantage to Turkey going Islamist, and that is it would give impetus to re-taking Constantinople.
The military trying to take over the government in Turkey is SOP. While in college I spent Summers in Turkey. General Areturk (sp) would occasionally pick me up in his military chauffeured staff car and take me to a sidewalk cafe on Attaturk blvd where we would drink wine, smoke bongs and he'd tell me the story of how close he came to winning his coup d'etat. Occasionally other former military leaders who tried to revolt would join us and brag about their attempted coups. But that was thirty years ago.
You just made my point. Turkey's government is inherantly unstable. The Army may be anti-Islamist, but if the average Abdul in the street is pro-Islamist, that's a sure recipe for trouble. Frankly, letting Turkey into the EU is asking for more trouble than it's worth......and the EU ain't worth much to begin with!
EU laws implemeted.
They were pushing really hard on Turkey for freedom of press, similar magazines were banned, authors taken in custody one year ago.
With new EU laws, freedom of press wins and even "Kaide" can be published. While Turkey was talking about Terrorist going out of control everyone was saying "BE DEMOCRATIC"..
Now, when you see a magazine like this please...
There would be one advantage to Turkey going Islamist, and that is it would give impetus to re-taking Constantinople.
Implementation of shari'a.....abolition of all non-islamic parties.....requiring veiling and burqa-ing of women.....there's a LOT that Turkey would still do, and what I said just barely scratches the surface.
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