Posted on 03/20/2019 7:17:32 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Australia’s prime minister said he would summon Turkey’s ambassador in Canberra on Wednesday to explain “very offensive” comments made by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the wake of the Christchurch massacre, AFP reported.
Erdoğan, while campaigning for local elections, presented the attack as part of an assault on Turkey and Islam and that warned anti-Muslim Australians would suffer the same fate as soldiers at Gallipoli, a blood-drenched World War I battle.
“I find it a very offensive comment, of course I do, and I will be calling in the Turkish ambassador today to meet with me to discuss these issues,” Scott Morrison told national broadcaster ABC.
Erdoğan had already been sharply rebuked by New Zealand for his comments and for using gruesome video shot by the Christchurch mosque gunman as an election campaign prop.
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters protested on Monday that such politicization of the massacre “imperils the future and safety of the New Zealand people and our people abroad, and it’s totally unfair.”
Peters announced on Tuesday that he would be travelling to Turkey this week to attend a special meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Three Turkish nationals were wounded in the rampage that killed 50 worshippers at two mosques in the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday.
The accused gunman, a self-avowed white supremacist from Australia, live-streamed much of the attack and spread a manifesto on social media claiming it was a strike against Muslim “invaders.”
The manifesto references Turkey and the minarets of Istanbul’s famed Hagia Sophia, now a museum, that was once a church before becoming a mosque during the Ottoman empire.
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He may actually be insane. He is often accused of being totally unbalanced. (he is an Islamist and a Fascist)
They need to respond with a military alert.
That’s a threat of war Erdogen is making, I don’t care if he’s doing it for votes or whatever.
They need to respond with a military alert.
That’s a threat of war Erdogen is making, I don’t care if he’s doing it for votes or whatever.
First the 8chan guy, now this. They don’t seem to be getting much respect.
“” “” He may actually be insane. He is often accused of being totally unbalanced. (he is an Islamist and a Fascist) “” “”
I don’t any irregularities since he is a Turk. :)
Erdogan showed the mosque video for a full day in wild, paranoid, incitement-filled election speeches. The very next morning a Turk murdered 3 Dutchman on a train in Holland. How is Erdogan not being DENOUNCED as having incited terrorist mass murder?
Even the Saudis don’t love him or his Islamist buddies. But the Dems do...
Yes, well, the alliance with Turkey, Russia, and Persia was written about long ago... Might I ad, it does not bode well for them.
Erdogan is a vote seeking d#ck when o will say or do anything to get nationalist votes. I suppose he is referencing Gallipoli and yes Australians see that as a gallant and heroic loss which formed part of our national character. You would think we would find offense but g every Aussie knows we lost that battle but were a part of kicking their Turkish backsides later. So I’ll raise a glass to our Aussie heroes and forget this nobody wannabe Attaturk.
If the PM had a set (or could get a set on loan) he should have told the Turkish ambassador that he had 12 hours to pack his sh!t and get out.
He is a Hitler want to be. Attaturk would have killed him instantly. He is an Islamist.
A friend from Erdogan’s childhood has stated publicly that he carried around a copy of Mein Khampf and quoting from it in his youth.
Sane? Was Hitler sane? Or just pure Evil.
No, it does not bode well for them. They lose badly. Forever.
He is an Islamist. He is acting in accordance with his ideology.
““I find it a very offensive comment, of course I do, and I will be calling in the Turkish ambassador today to meet with me to discuss these issues,””
What is there to discuss? Turkey just threatened Australia as a result of some nutjob attack.
Of course he incited it. He is an evil jerk. He really does not care. He believes his god has chosen him to lead a rebirth of the Ottoman Empire.
Headshake.
May Satan recall him soon.
Well, Greece and Turkey are both NATO.
But yes, that is a direct threat. Something he does very often.
I think he is part Mongul.
There has always been bad blood between Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
We really need to remove Turkey from Nato.
There is no formal process. Guess nobody thought it would ever be an issue.
It can be done.
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