A TURKISH DELIGHT?

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A TURKISH DELIGHT?

 

AZG DAILY #208, 12-11-2010

 

By Odette Bazil

 

 

The Turkish President Mr Abdullah Gul must be delighted to have been

awarded the "Chatham House Prize 2010" which he will receive from the

hands of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

 

The prestigious Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham

House ) has praised the President's efforts of reconciliation with its

neighbours , his promotion of Human Rights in Turkey, his policies of

tolerance and his protection of its minorities heritage and culture .

 

How far can one be from truth and reality.

 

If the Chatham House Team had visited the region and pursued a real

fact-finding policy in Turkey , interviewing the very neighbours with

whom President Gul is supposed to have reconciled, then today

President Gul , instead of being awarded a Prize, would have been

questioned about his refusal to open borders which Turkey shares with

its Armenian neighbour and has closed for the past 17 years because of

Armenia's dealings with a third country ,would have been questioned

about the Armenian churches in former Armenia - present day Eastern

Anatolia - where crosses have been removed from churches which serve

now either as museums, stables or even brothels, and questioned about

his denial of the genocide committed in 1915 by his ancestors, where

over one and half million innocent Armenian children, men and women

were put to death, because of the greed Turkey had for their land and

because of intolerance and barbarism.

 

Anyone with a sense of recollection of the horrors of that period in

the history of Turkey, with conscience, fairness, human and moral

ethics will find it impossible to swallow, enjoy and digest this

Turkish Delight.

 

Chatham House you had it wrong!