Posted on 11/08/2007 2:22:17 AM PST by Wiz
The release of eight soldiers after two weeks held hostage by the PKK has not been celebrated in Turkey.
Some here have branded them cowards - even traitors.
Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin told an audience at Ankara University on Monday that he could not be entirely happy about the soldiers' release.
They were captured in an ambush by the PKK close to the Iraqi border on 21 October. Twelve other soldiers were killed in what was the worst clash of its kind with Kurdish separatists in many years.
"No member of the Turkish Armed Forces should have found themselves in such a situation," the minister began.
"As a Turkish citizen I cannot accept the fact that they went with the terrorists that night. Our soldier is prepared to die if necessary when he is protecting the country."
'Shame!'
The soldiers' families kept a very low profile while their sons were held hostage. The justice minister's statement prompted one mother to break her silence.
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I have been to Turkey and I think they are most of the time very good people.
But I don’t respect their national psyche. It is somewhat morally broken. They feel it is suicidal to simply apologize for the Armenian genocide. How can a culture like this be admitted to the EU?
That is so very sick...you think that this will inspire Turkish soldiers to want to give their very best?
Patton said it best...”No soldiers ever won a war by dying for their country; they did it by by making the other poor dumb bastards die for theirs!”
>>>These Islamofascist Turks are totally corrupted and sick, both the government officials and citizens making soldiers a scapegoat. It just smells like Nazism. Maybe we should call them IslamoNazis.
Turks are leaving a bad taste in our mouths the last few years but I wouldn’t take this particular example too far. We’ve seen the same sort of treatment to our own. The crew of the Pueblo for example, at least until the Navy released proof the sailors had been resisting in the face of torture. Same for some of our Airmen in the Hanoi Hilton.
Armchair types complaining the troops in hopeless situations didn’t die with honor, isn’t unique to Turkey.
There was an episode of M.A.S.H. where a Turkish commander came to the 4077th to shoot wounded Turk soldiers.
More good reason to hate Islamo Facisim. It has never been a religon of peace or reconciliation. It is nothing but a blood cult who’s sole purpose is to sweep the other religons from the face of the earth, whatever the cost.
So now the soldiers have to worry about what they’re going to receive at the hands of their own countrymen.
- "Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors" issed by His Imperial Majesty Emperor Meiji of Japan on January 4th, 1882.
Interesting tradition the Turks are choosing to follow...
issed = issued
“Patton said it best...”No soldiers ever won a war by dying for their country; they did it by by making the other poor dumb bastards die for theirs!”
Muslims like to say “We love death like westerners love life.” Islam is a death cult, and like good Muslims everywhere, Turks have drunk the cool aid.
‘There was an episode of M.A.S.H. where a Turkish commander came to the 4077th to shoot wounded Turk soldiers.’
Well, there is a reliable reference, the worst show in reruns.
I vaguely remember a book I read in the early sixties called "This kind of war" in which it was stated that the Turks never cracked when taken prisoner.
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