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Old 03-19-2019, 04:36   #1
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Erdoğan shows Christchurch attack footage at rallies

The Truk is getting mileage on the NZ attack.
Which is what the nutcase that instigated the attack wanted.

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Erdoğan shows Christchurch attack footage at rallies

New Zealand’s foreign minister condemns Turkish president’s use of video of shootings

The New Zealand government has criticised Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, after he repeatedly showed video footage of the Christchurch mosque attacks to crowds at election rallies.

Erdoğan said he would send home “in caskets” anyone attempting such an attack in Turkey, which he claimed was not the work of a lone gunman.

New Zealand’s foreign minister, Winston Peters, rebuked Erdoğan for using footage of the shootings, saying it could endanger New Zealanders abroad. Erdoğan also displayed extracts from a “manifesto” posted online by the suspected attacker and later taken down.

Erdoğan, facing an uphill battle in local elections at the end of the month due to Turkey’s deep economic difficulties, which include high inflation and a construction crisis, claimed part of the Christchurch suspect’s manifesto was to keep Turks out of Europe, and said the attack was part of a worldwide campaign of Islamophobia.


Erdoğan, trying to rally support for his AK party in the 31 March local elections, said: “They are testing us from 16,500km away, from New Zealand, with the messages they are giving from there. This isn’t an individual act, this is organised.”

Erdoğan also showed grainy video footage of the shootings, which the gunman had broadcast live on Facebook. He also displayed on giant screens extracts from the so-called manifesto allegedly prepared by the suspect asserting he wanted to drive Turks from Turkey’s north-western, European region. Half of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, spans the eastern side of the Bosphorus, with its European half to the west.

“We have been here for 1,000 years and will be here until the apocalypse, God willing,” Erdogan told an annual rally on Monday commemorating the 1915 Gallipoli campaign during the first world war, when Ottoman soldiers defeated British-led forces including Australian and New Zealand troops trying to seize the peninsula, a gateway to Istanbul.

“You will not turn Istanbul into Constantinople,” he added, referring to the city’s name under its Christian Byzantine rulers before it was conquered by Muslim Ottomans in 1453.

“Your grandparents came here … and they returned in caskets,” he said. “Have no doubt we will send you back like your grandfathers.”

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Old 03-19-2019, 07:14   #2
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I can’t imagine a single reason why anyone would ever go to, through or spend a single vacation dollar in Turkey under this regime.

Erdogan is not a “friend” to the US or any western country he’s just another dicktaster wannabe.
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Old 03-19-2019, 16:22   #3
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Maybe NZ should just request his extradition so he can stand trial (at risk of 14 years in prison) along with this kid.

Or maybe the Aussie who rammed his car into a mosque in Queensland can claim that Erdogan incited him.
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Old 03-19-2019, 18:20   #4
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That moron doesn’t even know history. The Emperor Constantine died three hundred years before Muhammad was born.
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Old 03-19-2019, 18:42   #5
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Not long after, a Turkey-born attacker shoots up a tram in Utrecht, Netherlands. Three dead, nine wounded.
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Old 03-20-2019, 07:38   #6
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Not long after, a Turkey-born attacker shoots up a tram in Utrecht, Netherlands. Three dead, nine wounded.
I doubt he'll be showing that footage...
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Old 03-21-2019, 00:41   #7
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I have a paternal grandfather(never met him, died well before I was born) who served in the Turkish Army before emigrating.

I’ve served in the NZ Army.

I had always hoped to visit Instanbul, paternal history in the country, and ANZAC Cove.

I heard all the positive hospitality stories about Kiwis visiting Turkey.

A few years back there was a significant shift in the security posture for attendees and it has been throttled right back after the 100th anniversary.

I stood next to a classmate who was a very senior executive of the largest cellular provider in Turkey on a Summer afternoon in 2016 when that half-assed coup went down.

Combine that with the Sledgehammer Affair and the emasculation of Turkey’s ability to reboot the country when it goes off the rails.

What is truly frightening is that Turkey is supposed to be the shining light of Muslim secular self made economic and political success.

And it’s going down the gurgler.

No way in hell am I taking my kids or spending a single penny/lira there.
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