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Title: With friends like this? Post by bogarde73 on Jan 14th, 2015 at 2:15pm
According to the President of Turkey (a member of NATO), all the blame for the Paris attacks can be sheeted home to the west:
"The President of Turkey has suggested French security forces are to blame for the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris last week, since the culprits had recently served prison sentences. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused the West of 'playing games with the Islamic world', warning fellow Muslims to be 'aware'. Erdogan said Muslims are 'paying the price' for the attacks on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish kosher supermarket in Paris last week. 'French citizens carry out such a massacre, and Muslims pay the price,' Erdogan said yesterday. 'That's very meaningful ... Doesn't their intelligence organisation track those who leave prison? 'Games are being played with the Islamic world, we need to be aware of this. 'The West's hypocrisy is obvious. As Muslims, we've never taken part in terrorist massacres. Behind these lie racism, hatespeech and Islamophobia,' Erdogan added." "Erdogan is not the only senior Turkish politicianpublicly voicing conspiracy theories over the Paris attacks. The Mayor of Ankara, Melih Gokcek, said he was convinced the Israeli intelligence service Mossad was behind the attacks, linking them to France's recent move towards recognising Palestine as an independent state. 'Mossad is definitely behind such incidents… it is boosting enmity towards Islam.' Mr Gokcek said, according to Financial Times." Turkey increasingly seems to me to be a friend not worth having. |
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