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Bashir and Turkey

Omar al-Bashir is a vicious dictator, one for whom the International Criminal Court (ICC) has even issued a warrant for arrest. The panorama of people killed under his watch include babies and women as well as the elderly.

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And it is this very man who used to visit our nation often. He was treated with both respect and love here. This time around though, Bashir was invited to Turkey within the framework of an event organized by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). And so we are meant to view Bashir as one of our friends, an alternative to the sneaky and manipulative West, when in fact many of those massacred under Bashir were Muslims. There is no reason to drag this on, though. The fact is, facing off against the European Union on this topic, and protecting a war criminal and a murderer as if advertising our “independence” on these sorts of matters, is simply not convincing.

10 November 2009, Tuesday

RADİKAL YILDIRIM TÜRKER  

   

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