Posted on 06/18/2018 7:29:49 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
In Turkey, a NATO member and a candidate for the European Union, citizens are systematically persecuted or even murdered for having been born non-Turkish or non-Muslim.
For decades, the Turkish government and much of the Turkish public have victimized millions of people – Jews, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds and Alevis. Here are six victims whose life stories I hope will give you an idea about what it means to live as a minority member in Turkey.
Yasef Yahya, 39, a Jewish dentist from Turkey, was brutally murdered on Aug. 21, 2003 in the Şişli district of Istanbul. Yahya was married with two children – a 6-year-old boy and a 6-month-old girl.
Ishak Ibrahimzadeh, the leader of the Jewish community in Turkey, commemorated the death of Yahya with a message posted on Twitter: “13 years ago today, they have murdered the dentist, our Yasef, because they realized he was Jewish from his name.”
The perpetrators were members of an Islamist terrorist organization. Adem Cetinkaya, one of the murderers, told the police that he and his colleagues had needed money for the new organization that they wished to form.
Scholar Rifat Bali said that Cetinkaya made the following confession: “For a long time, we had thought about [carrying out some] action against the Jews. The nameplate of a dentist in Şişli attracted our attention. We spoke [among ourselves] saying, ‘We’ve got to kill this Jew.’”
According to police reports, Yahya was found in a bathroom with his hands and feet tied with clothesline. Women’s stockings were put in his mouth and his head was leaned toward the bathtub; he was then shot with one bullet to the head.
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So, how are Turks different from non-Turks?
It is all about Turkification.
Basically, it is about forced acceptance of language, religion, culture of Turkey, by the most brutal of means. Modern Turkey established under Kemal, said it was secular. That tolerance was never practiced. At times it was not persecuted, but if you became "visibly different" you were. From time to time they would go on a hunt for all minority groups. The danger now? If Turkey goes into a bad economic downturn will they repeat the past and practice mass confiscation, deportation and murder?
And what is the product of that process? Ethnic cleansing, Massacre, Genocide, mass deportation and theft of property, assets and money of those who are "different". And constant and enduring denial that any of it happened.
The most recent example of this is what Turkey did in Afrin (Efrin) Syria from January to March 2018. And it is still going on in that canton of Syria where Turkey transplanted ISIS and Al-Qaeda elements to replace those 400,000 that had to flee to escape with their lives.
This article gives human examples of what the consequences are. These are prior cases, those cases involving the taking of Afrin Syria are not yet reported about in detail. I've read accounts of some cases in Afrin, but they are difficult to understand because language differences.
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