Turkish hypocrisy

I saw an article today on Yediot Aharonot’s website (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3903296,00.html) which indicated that Turkey and Hamas plan to sue Israel over the «human rights» flotilla’s botched attempt to enter Gaza’s port. Turkey’s chutzpah in particular is absolutely mind-boggling and knows no limits. As a saying goes, when you point a finger at someone, there are more fingers being pointed at you.

Just to give you a list of Turkey’s major controversies and crimes against humanity over the past several hundred years, here are some examples. Turks spread Islam by sword throughout South Eastern and Central Europe and killed the Christian non-believers along the way. During these wars, vast stretches of South Eastern and Central Europe were occupied by Ottoman Turks as far as Vienna’s outskirts. Ottoman Turks occupied Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel) from roughly 1517 to 1917 and squeezed its inhabitants harshly to benefit the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire committed genocide of the Armenian people during WWI killing as many as 1.5 million of them and to this day deny their responsibility for it. The modern-day Turkey under Kemal Ataturk had expelled over a million Greeks in the 1920s, and tens of thousands more fled as a result of pogrom against them in the 1950s. The Turkish army is illegally occupying northern Cyprus, and an illegal republic was proclaimed there. Turks are oppressing millions of Kurds and don’t give them either autonomy or sovereignty. They’re still blocading Armenia’s border.

I personally think the current crisis seriously damages Turkey’s standing in the community of civilized nations. It’d be best if Turks kept quiet about Israel’s justified self-defense, because if they want to bring on a real fight, there are a lot of dark pages in Turkey’s historical past and present that could be easily exposed.