Erdogan and Ahmadinejad, Birds of a Feather Flock Together

September 13,2011

The Turkish Prime-minister has further showed his colors. His enmity for Israel and the west continue to grow inspired by his evolving plan to throw Israel to the wolves in order to enhance his political plan for dominance in the middle-east. His ranting and ravings and demands for Israel to bend her knees by forcing her to apologize for her attempt at self defense borders on the ludicrous.

Missiles from Gaza are landing on Israeli cities, towns and establishments, and Turkey allows a ship under a Turkish flag with Turkish citizens aboard to protest the blockade of Gaza in order to allow the Hamas to bring in at will more rockets to fall on Israel. What is apparent besides Turkey’s unbalanced support for Hamas when Israel has been an active ally of Turkey for many years is the undisguised venomous anger by Erdogan toward Israel proper. One must assume that there are other reasons for his policy and actions. Why would he ally himself and the Turkish nation to side with a terrorist organization sworn to destroy Israel? Why would he personally plan to visit and socialize with the murderers of Hamas in Gaza?

The Jewish People will always remember that it was Turkey that admitted and warmly greeted Jews after the Spanish inquisition. It was Turkey that also was a haven for some Jews escaping the Nazi’s during World War II.

Why then today is Turkey, a previously close ally of Israel, turned to becoming an enemy of Israel, and in turn the United States and the West?

Erdogan  is moving his country closer to Islamicization. He is turning back the clock to the autocratic rule where Islamic values will prevail. He is using the power of Islamic religious characteristics to suppress freedom of expression, and any and all opposition to his ultimate plan to turn democratic Turkey into Islamic Turkey.

History has shown us that those who suppress freedom of expression are doomed to defeat ultimately. The world is too closely connected for Turkish citizens not to be aware what is happening to their country. Credit for what appears as Turkish economic progress since Erdogan’s party had come to power are going to be soon downgraded, and Turkey will soon face some severe economic turmoil. Their policies will cause an estrangement in international trade that they so sorely need to continue their progress. They have misled the international business community into thinking that they are growing by leaps and bounds. However this falsely declared jump in activity has only been brought about by temporarily flooding their banks with printed money claiming that their GDP is growing by 11%. The Turkish people are in for a shock.

Israel was a very important trading partner in many senses. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli tourists came to Turkey each year for vacations where now few can be found in Antalya which is Turkey’s Riviera center for the tourist vacation areas. When the Turkish economy starts to sink and their Sovereign credit ratings begin to fall there will be pressure by their own people to rethink their Islamicization program, their blatant Anti-Israel and covert Anti-Semitism, their antagonistic attitudes toward the United States, and their alliance with the enemies of the west. Because they are failing in their battle against the Kurds, their pending economic self created bubble, their tirades against Israel (a subterfuge for Jews and the West), their suppression of free speech and association, they are bound to go the way as a failed government sooner or later.

I recommend that when buying anything that says made in Turkey that you drop the item and find a better one made somewhere else. Tell the owner or manager of the business how you feel about Turkish products and your willingness not buy them.  I recommend that you write your congressman and senator and that you express your feelings for the despicable behavior of Turkey in her treatment of Israel and her attempt to humiliate Israel, and the Israeli people.  I recommend that you communicate directly with Turkish citizens by email, facebook, twitter, to rebel against their government policies that promote hatred and the fostering  of terrorism. Let’s unite to stop Erdogan now, and to reestablish Turkey’s friendship with Israel and the United States.

Other articles by Ira A Feinberg can be found at http:/findingthetruth.irafeinberg.com