FOR ANKARA, IS MASSACRE A POLICY OPTION?
VoltaireNet
Oct 27 2014
by Thierry Meyssan
Translated by: Roger Lagasse
Is the new alliance between Turkey and France concerned only with
economic issues, to wit entry into the European Union, or is it purely
political? In this case, must Paris provide cover for Ankara whatever
the policy? Does this support go as far as genocide?
or the second time, the Obama administration has called Turkey into
question for its support of the Islamic Emirate (Daesh). First, October
2, Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, in a speech at the
Kennedy School at Harvard. [1] Then on October 23, Deputy Secretary
of the Treasury, David S. Cohen, before the Carnegie Foundation
[2]. Both accused Ankara of supporting the jihadis and selling the
oil they steal in Iraq and Syria.
In the face of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s denials, Biden had
apologized. The Turkish government had allowed the PKK to come to the
aid of Kobané Syrian Kurds besieged by Daesh. Alas! the behavior of
Ankara was not convincing and Washington renewed its accusations.
Turkey and the issue of ethnic cleansing
I do not think that what is at issue is the support for jihadists.
Turkey does not act in their regard other than in accordance with
the US plan, and, at least until mid-October, Daesh has remained
controlled by the CIA. But Washington cannot admit that a member of
NATO is visibly involved in the massacre that threatens the people of
Kobané. The policy of the Obama administration is simple: Daesh was
created to do what NATO cannot do, ethnic cleansing, while members
of the Alliance must pretend to have nothing to do with it. The
massacre of Syrian Kurds is not necessary to Washington politics and
the involvement of Turkey constitutes a crime against humanity.
The attitude of Turkey appears as involuntary. And that’s the problem.
Turkey is a revisionist state. It never admitted that it committed the
massacre of 1.4 million Armenians, 200,000 Assyrians and Christians of
the Greek rite and 50,000 Assyrians in Persia (1914-1918) and again
of 800 000 Armenians and Greeks (1919-1925) [3]. Far from closing
this painful chapter in its history, the condolence message sent
by Erdogan, on April 23, has instead demonstrated the inability of
Turkey to acknowledge the crimes of the Young Turks. [4]
Ankara has tried in the past to liquidate the Kurdish PKK. Many have
fled to Syria. President al-Assad gave them Syrian nationality at
the beginning of the war, and armed them so that they could defend
the national territory. On the contrary, for Ankara, killing them
would be good news, and Daesh could do this dirty work.
Turkey’s involvement in recent ethnic cleansing
During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), the Turkish Army
supported the “Arab Legion” of Osama bin Laden who ethnically cleansed
the country by massacring quantities of Orthodox Serbs. The fighting
jihadists survivors have joined armed groups in Syria, including Daesh.
In 1998, the Turkish Army participated in the military training of
the KLA, whose attacks were repressed by the Yugoslav government,
justifying the intervention of NATO. During the war that followed,
Hakan Fidan (current head of the Turkish secret service MIT) was
the liaison between NATO and Turkey. Ultimately, the KLA drove out
the Orthodox Serbs and desecrated their places of worship. In 2011,
Hakan Fidan sent jihadists to Kosovo to be trained in terrorism by
the KLA and to attack Syria.
During the occupation of Iraq, the United States officially relied on
Turkey and Saudi Arabia to rebuild the country. The policy was then
to provoke civil war and conduct systematic massacres, of mostly
Shiites and Christians. As explained by the former adviser to the
White House for Homeland Security, Richard A. Falkenrath, this policy
was designed to encyst jihadism, use it on the spot and make sure it
does not come to the United States [5].
In September 2013, hundreds of jihadists from the Free Syrian Army
(supported by France and bearing the flag of the French colonial
militia), supported by elements of Al-Nusra Front (Syrian branch of Al
Qaeda) arrived in Turkey to take the village of Maloula, raping its
women, killing its men and desecrating its churches. Maloula offers
no strategic military interest. The attack was only a way to visibly
persecute Christians of whom Maloula has been the Syrian symbol for
nearly two thousand years.
In March 2014, hundreds of jihadists of Al-Nusra Front and the Army of
Islam (pro-Saudis) arrived in Turkey, supervised by the Turkish Army
to sack the city of Kessab. The population managed to flee before
being slaughtered. When the Syrian Arab Army came to the rescue,
Turkey opposed it and shot one of its planes. Kessab is of strategic
interest to NATO, because of the proximity of a Russian radar base
that monitors the Alliance’s Turkish base of Incirlik. The people of
Kessab are Armenians whose families fled the massacres perpetrated
by the Young Turks.
Does today’s Turkey allow genocides?
We must therefore ask the question: by denying that the massacre
of Armenians in general and of diverse mainly Christian minorities,
which occurred from 1915 to 1925, was organized by the Committee of
Union and Progress, isn’t Turkey saying that genocide is not a crime,
but a policy like any other?
The policy of the current Turkish government is based on the “Davutoglu
doctrine,” named after the current Prime Minister.
According to this political science professor, Turkey must restore
its influence of the Ottoman era and unify the Middle East on the
basis of Sunni Islam.
At first, the Erdogan administration advocated the resolution of
conflicts left in suspense since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, which
he called a policy of “zero problems” with his neighbors. Seizing
the rebound, Syria and Iran then negotiated a free trade zone that
caused an economic boom in the three countries. But in 2011, during
the NATO war against Libya, Turkey abandoned its conciliatory attitude
to emerge as a belligerent power. Since then, it has been again angry
with all its neighbors, with the exception of Azerbaijan.
French support for Turkey
During the war against Libya and against Syria, Turkey and France
have come together to forge a genuine pact, in the line of the
Franco-Ottoman alliance desired by Francis I and Suleiman the
Magnificent; an alliance that lasted two and a half centuries and
ended only with Napoleon Bonaparte, then resurfaced briefly during
the Crimean War.
The new alliance was ratified by the French Foreign Minister, Laurent
Fabius, who, in February 2013, lifted the French veto on the accession
of Turkey to the EU and is now engaged in promoting its entry.
Thus, Francois Hollande and Laurent Fabius, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and
Ahmet Davutoglu sponsored a joint operation to assassinate President
Bashar al-Assad and his foreign minister Walid al-Moallem by cleaning
staff of the presidential palace, but the operation failed.
In the summer of 2013, Turkey organized the chemical bombardment of
the ghoutta and accused Syria. Supported by France, she sought to
involve the United States in bombing the capital and in overthowing
the Syrian Arab Republic. Both countries tried to return Washington
to its initial project of overthrowing the Syrian Arab Republic.
A document submitted to the United Nations Security Council, certifies
that after the secret vote by the US Congress in January 2014,
arming and funding Syrian rebels to ethnically cleanse the region,
France and Turkey continued secretly to arm all the al-Nusra Front
(that is to say, al Qaeda) to fight against Daesh. The idea was always
to bring Washington back to its original project.
We note in passing that it is not only Turkey but also France, who
armed jihadists who attacked the Christian towns of Maloula and Kessab,
raping their women, killing their men and desecrating their churches.
The corruption of French leaders by Turkey
While the press often refers to the corruption of the French ruling
class by Qatar, it is silent on the Turkey’s huge investment in
French politicians.
The proof of this corruption: the silence of the French officers on
domestic developments in Turkey (world record for the imprisonment
of journalists, lawyers and senior officers) on its support for
international terrorism (Turkish Justice has established that
Erdogan met the Al Qaeda banker 12 times, Turkey has four al-Qaeda
camps and organized the transit of tens of thousands of jihadists),
on the pillage of Syria (thousands of factories were dismantled in
the district of Aleppo and transferred to Turkey) and its massacres
(Maloula, Kessab, and soon perhaps Kobané).
In 2009, the Turkish employer class – faithful allies of Erdogan
– created the Bosphorus Institute responsible for promoting ties
between the two countries. [6] Its scientific committee, co-chaired
by Anne Lauvergeon, [7] includes the cream of French politicians (UMP
Jean-Francois Coppe [8] and Alain Juppé [9]), the Socialist Party
(Elizabeth Guigou [10] Pierre Moscovici [11]), many very close to
President Hollande (Jean-Pierre Jouyet [12] and Henri de Castries
[13]), and even former communists, to name a few.
It is certainly not in the spirit of these figures, some of which are
honorable, to approve of the massacres committed by Ankara. That is
nevertheless what they are doing.
By allying herself with Turkey, France has become and active accomplice
of its massacres.
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