Gisteren kreeg de vrouw van Erdogan een mensenrechtenprijs, Erdogan, je weet wel de
Turkse autocratische president, tevens oorlogsmisdadiger en grootschender van
mensenrechten...... Erdogan is vervolgens ook nog eens verantwoordelijk voor de oorlog die het Turkse leger in eigen land voert tegen de Koerdische bevolking......
Emine Erdogan kreeg de prijs voor de opvang door Turkije van 3,5 miljoen Syriërs...... Een deal die het bewind Erdogan met de EU sloot en waarvoor Turkije 6 miljard dollar kreeg..... In een paar modelkampen worden EU politici, mensenrechtenorganisaties en 'journalisten' rondgeleid, terwijl het gros van de vluchtelingen, inclusief hun kinderen worden opgesloten in provisorische gevangenissen waar het aan van alles ontbreekt...... Een overduidelijke schending van het VN vluchtelingenverdrag.......
Voorts heeft Turkije tienduizenden vluchtelingen teruggestuurd, rechtstreeks het oorlogsgebied in..... Verder schieten Turkse grenswachten en militairen op vluchtelingen die de grens met Turkije naderen, dit om ze af te schrikken nog verder te gaan......
Daarnaast heeft de bloedige agressie van Turkije tegen Koerden in Syrië en Irak, ervoor gezorgd dat deze mensen dat geweld ontvluchtten, ofwel Turkije heeft zelf ook vluchtelingenstromen opgang gebracht.......
Het lijkt gvd wel een herhaling van het schandaal waarbij het bloedige reli-fascistische Saoedi-Arabië tot voorzitter werd benoemd van de VN Mensenrechtenorganisatie UNHRC, terwijl het al bezig was met een genocide op de sjiitische bevolking in buurland Jemen........ (een genocide die nog steeds voortduurt en waar de wereld niets aan wenst te doen....)
De
prijs werd toegekend door het 'World Human Forum' (WHF), en bij de
uitreiking van de prijs was één van de sprekers Tony Blair, gewezen oorlogsmisdadiger en
mensenrechtenschender..... Het panel van
WHF dat de prijs toekende, werd geleid door Jack Straw, de voormalig
minister van BuZa onder Blair en als zodanig ook aan te merken als
oorlogsmisdadiger en schender van mensenrechten.......
Je
zou bijna denken dat WHF werd opgericht door Blair en Straw.......
De
ophef over de toekenning van de prijs onder o.a. de 'Turkse' Koerden
is groot. In het hieronder opgenomen artikel van Emily Apple, eerder
gepubliceerd op The Canary, reacties uit Turkije op de
toekenning van de prijs.
These were the scenes in Turkey as Erdoğan’s wife got a ‘humanitarian’ award in London
On
17 April, the wife of Turkish president and alleged war
criminal Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan
received a “changemaker”
award at the World Humanitarian Forum (WHF) in London.
Emine
Erdoğan was given the
award for her “key role in helping women and refugees, especially
offering shelter to over 3.5 million who had to flee Syria”. And
while her work must be seen separately from whatever her husband
does, she apparently accepted
the award:
on behalf of the generous Turkish people, whose hearts ache with a crying child, who see strangers as guests from God.
So
it’s a shame her heart wasn’t aching when Turkish police fired
water cannon and tear gas at elected politicians in Amed (Diyarbakır)
on the same day.
WHF: not so humanitarian
To
be fair, it seems the WHF itself is not so humanitarian.
Because alleged war
criminal Tony
Blair is one of
the speakers.
And former foreign secretary Jack Straw reportedly led
the awards panel:
Wife of Turkish dictator Erdoğan is being given a "humanitarian award" by a panel led by former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
The same Jack Straw who oversaw the Iraq War, extraordinary rendition and used the "War on Terror" to criminalise Kurds in UKdailysabah.com/turkey/2019/04…
The same Jack Straw who oversaw the Iraq War, extraordinary rendition and used the "War on Terror" to criminalise Kurds in UKdailysabah.com/turkey/2019/04…
First lady selected as 'Changemaker' for inspiring humanitarian work
(de volgende foto is een still van een video zie daarvoor het origineel)
Is there anything more corrupted in this world than Jack Straw - who took the UK into the Iraq War and lied about knowing about extraordinary rendition - giving an award to the wife of Turkish dictator Erdogan, and lecturing us about "humanitarianism"?!
The
Kurdistan Solidarity Campaign also highlighted exactly why awarding
Erdoğan the award is so problematic:
Wife of Turkish dictator Erdoğan is being given a "humanitarian award" by a panel led by former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
The same Jack Straw who oversaw the Iraq War, extraordinary rendition and used the "War on Terror" to criminalise Kurds in UKdailysabah.com/turkey/2019/04…
The same Jack Straw who oversaw the Iraq War, extraordinary rendition and used the "War on Terror" to criminalise Kurds in UKdailysabah.com/turkey/2019/04…
First lady selected as 'Changemaker' for inspiring humanitarian work
The "World Humanitarian Forum" (@WHForumLondon) founded by Tony and Cherie Blair is giving an award to the wife of Turkey's authoritarian President, who invaded Afrin last year killing thousands of Kurds and Yazidi refugees, and has destroyed Kurdish towns in southern Turkey pic.twitter.com/E5mWOJoUAU
The "World Humanitarian Forum" (@WHForumLondon) founded by Tony and Cherie Blair is giving an award to the wife of Turkey's authoritarian President, who invaded Afrin last year killing thousands of Kurds and Yazidi refugees, and has destroyed Kurdish towns in southern Turkey
The "World Humanitarian Forum" (@WHForumLondon) founded by Tony and Cherie Blair is giving an award to the wife of Turkey's authoritarian President, who invaded Afrin last year killing thousands of Kurds and Yazidi refugees, and has destroyed Kurdish towns in southern Turkey
Jack Straw, Tony and Cherie Blair give a "humanitarian" award to the wife of a fascist leader who has politically repressed @UKLabour's sister party HDP, locked up dozens of their elected MPs & mayors and thousands of activists, and colluded in the murder of their supporters pic.twitter.com/1mFncs3DSR
Jack Straw, Tony and Cherie Blair give a "humanitarian" award to the wife of a fascist leader who has politically repressed @UKLabour's sister party HDP, locked up dozens of their elected MPs & mayors and thousands of activists, and colluded in the murder of their supporters pic.twitter.com/1mFncs3DSR
Meanwhile in Amed
While
Turkey’s heavily pro-Erdoğan
press (the
result of severe
media repression)
was lapping
up this
story, police were on the offensive in Amed.
Despite winning the
local elections in many Kurdish-majority areas in southeastern
Turkey, some left-wing HDP (Peoples’
Democratic Party) mayors have not been allowed to
take office. People gathered in Amed to protest this decision. And
they were met with tear gas and water canons:
#BeingKurdInTurkey
Today in #Amed: Turkish police attacked with tear gas and water cannons a group of Kurds who were protesting against the YSK decision that not allows mayors to take office who were fired due to an emergency decree
(Pictures: @MAturkce) #TwitterKurds #HDP
Today in #Amed: Turkish police attacked with tear gas and water cannons a group of Kurds who were protesting against the YSK decision that not allows mayors to take office who were fired due to an emergency decree
(Pictures: @MAturkce) #TwitterKurds #HDP
Pro-#Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Remziye Tosun falls after being hit by a police water cannon during a protest against results of the local elections, in Diyarbakir, Turkey, April 17, 2019. #Turkey reuters.com/article/us-tur…
HDP press conference in Koşuyolu Park, Bağlar in protest at isolation of Abdullah Öcalan & YSK preventing HDP from taking office in places they won on March 31 local elections. Police blocked the park with armored vehicles & attacked them. Remziye Tosun was injured & hospitalised
Even
if Emine Erdoğan had undertaken the most amazing humanitarian work
the world had ever seen, the reality is that this award legitimises
the actions of the Turkish state. And there is nothing humanitarian
about the way the Turkish state treats its Kurdish communities.
But
then again, humanitarian is hardly a word any of us would associate
with Blair and Straw in the first place.
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=====================================Zie wat betreft Turkije mensenrechten en geweld:
'New York Post geeft 5 jaar te laat toe: IS werd en wordt gesteund door Turkije'
'Turkije valt weer illegaal Syrisch gebied binnen: NAVO-lidstaten stil......'
'Turkije klaar voor nieuwe inval in Noordoost-Syrië'
'VS keurt raketleveringen van Turkije aan terreurgroep in Syrië goed'
'Koerdische gevangenen in Turkse gevangenissen massaal in hongerstaking'
'Erdogan stelt militaire operatie uit op verzoek van Trump >> Turkse inval op Syrisch-Koerdisch gebied aanstaande'
'Idlib: akkoord Turkije – Rusland leidt tot grote aanval op Syrië.....'
'Turkse verkiezingen: Stoltenberg (roverhoofdman NAVO) feliciteert Erdogan met zijn verkiezing tot dictator'
'Turkse geheime dienst ontvoert etnische Turken in het buitenland........'
'Turkije bombardeert ziekenhuis in Afrin, waar blijft de westerse verontwaardiging zoals die over de bevrijding van Oost-Ghouta?'
'Turkse illegale inval Syrië gaat gepaard met etnische zuivering.......'
