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Turkey Threatens to Abandon Europe after Armenian Genocide Bill

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June 6, 2016
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Photo: Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Photo: Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP)


ANKARA (Reuters)—Turkish president Erdogan has threatened to “leave” Europe to deal with its migrant crisis alone, saying that Germany “blackmailed” Ankara by recognizing the Armenian Genocide. He also called out the Germans over their “history” of mass killings, Russia Today reports.

Speaking before students at Sebahattin Zaim University on Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that Germany has no moral right to blame Turkey for mass killings, given the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany and a genocide in Namibia perpetrated by the German Empire.
“Germany! I am telling again: first, you have to give an account of the Holocaust. How you decimated, killed over 100 thousand Namibians in Namibia, you should give an account of that,” he said, as cited by The Daily Sabah. Erdogan added that Germany is the “last country”to make judgements on genocide, given its “history of massacres.”
The German Empire carried out racially-motivated mass killings of tens of thousands of Namibians during colonial wars waged on the territory of modern-day Namibia from 1904 to 1907. According to various estimates, between 24,000 and 100,000 ethnic Herero and 10,000 Nama tribal people died as a result of starvation, abuse, and diseases during the course of the warfare and in concentration camps.
However, in contrast to Ankara’s defiant stance on the Armenian Genocide, the German parliament admitted that the Namibian killings were a part of a “race war” that should be considered a “genocide” in 2015.
Erdogan praised Turkish history as one “of mercy and compassion,” while blaming the West for exploiting millions of African immigrants for cheap labor.
“Under the elegant pavements of Berlin, Paris, Brussels are lives, blood, efforts and elbow greases of Africans,” he said.
Despite the strained relations between Armenia and Turkey due to Ankara’s vehement denial of the genocide, Erdogan claimed Armenians are welcomed in Turkey.
“If we were a country that was an enemy of Armenians, we would have sent all of these people back to Armenia,” he said, referring to the community of more than 100,000 Armenians living in Turkey at the moment.
Earlier on Saturday, the Turkish leader threatened to stop helping Europe alleviate its refugee crisis if the EU continues to put pressure on Turkey for refusing to acknowledge the atrocities, stressing that Turkey “will never accept the accusations of genocide,” according to the Hurriyet Daily newspaper.
“Either we find solutions to our problems in a fair way, or Turkey will stop being a barrier in front of the problems of Europe. We will leave you to your own worries,” Erdogan warned, accusing the EU of employing “propaganda machines, Armenians, or terror groups” to shatter its international positions.
Meanwhile, German Green party leader Cem Ozdemir, a German citizen of Turkish origin, proposed a resolution to recognize the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide. He is under police protection after receiving death threats from pro-Turkish government groups.
“We are thoroughly used to abuse and insults, but we have never experienced such a high number of death threats,” said the head of Ozdemir‘s office, Marc Berthold.
Ozdemir said that there are not only extremists, who are mostly Turkish nationalists, in Germany, but in Turkey and among German Turks, as well. “Right-wing radicalism is not a German privilege. Unfortunately it also exists in Turkey and among German Turks,” Ozdemir told the newspaper Die Welt.
“I will come to Germany and  kill you,” one man tweeted. Another Tweet reads: “We should honor this loose assimilated German Cem Ozdemir with a shoot in the head.”
Any form of threat, whether through mail or virtually, are being forwarded by Ozdemir office directly to the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany for examination.

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  1. Raffi says:
    6 years ago

    …. “I will come to Germany and kill you,” one man tweeted. Another Tweet reads: “We should honor this loose assimilated German Cem Ozdemir with a shoot in the head.”…. This is the same mentality as their absent minded Pres.Erdogan, who can’t realize that by blackmailing and by killing this problem can’t disappear.

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  2. Dr. Hermon Mihranian says:
    6 years ago

    Turkey is trying to blackmail the EU and the world. Turkey has never been a democratic country. Turkey must hand over annexed lands to Armenia and Greece.

    Reply
  3. Mkhitar Yepremyan says:
    6 years ago

    Turkey is a disgrace to the world community and Erdogan is her so called representative.

    Reply
  4. Art Napetian says:
    6 years ago

    One of these days Ajab Tavileh Arrotizgan will jump in his seat when US will recognize the genocide.

    Reply

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