Turkish Forum

Category: EU Members

European Council decided to open accession negotiations with Turkey on 17 Dec. 2004

  • OPEN LETTER to Dutch Councillors

    OPEN LETTER to Dutch Councillors

    GAME OVER!

    Mr./Mrs.
    Don Ceder, Kamerlid
    Chris Stoffer, Kamerlid
    Derk Boswijk, Kamerlid
    Isa Kahraman, Kamerlid
    Caroline van der Plas, Kamerlid

    It is with great concern and astonishment that I have learnt about your motion, submitted on behalf of your group on 10 April 2025, asking the Government to ensure that, by 24 April 2025 at the latest, ‘the Armenian GENOCIDE should no longer be referred to as the Armenian PROBLEM, but as the Armenian GENOCIDE’.

    In doing so, I would like to state in advance that you are committing a legal offense, especially in the following points.

    First issue:

    In your motion;

    Instead of the expression ‘Armenian PROBLEM’, which has been used in the talks up to this time, you demand that the ARMENIAN GENOCIDE be directly mentioned.

    In other words,

    You make a claim that “THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE HAPPENED”.

    The claimant is obliged to PROVE his claim.

    Otherwise, this constitutes a crime of slander and defamation. In addition, there is no CRIMINAL LAW that justifies this claim.

    Another fundamental principle in Criminal Law is based on the principle of non-retroactivity of the law.

    An act without criminal sanction at the time of the incident cannot be punished later.

    It is Article 7 of the Criminal Law of the European Convention on Human Rights that says this.

    So, what does Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights say?

    There can be no punishment without law.

    Article 1: “No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence under national or international law at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the criminal offence was committed.”

    In other words:

    Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege:

    “There can be no punishment without the law.” To cut to the chase:

    Was there a law on genocide in 1915, the year in which the so-called crime of genocide that you accuse the Ottomans [Turks] was committed?

    No.!!!

    Then you are rowing in vain.

    The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (the Convention) was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 (this is the international pillar of the law, as Article 7 ECHR) and entered into force on January 12, 1951.

    Let’s turn to domestic law;

    An act is punishable only if, before it is committed, criminal sanctions have been prescribed by law.

    Let’s assume that “genocide” was committed, since there was no law defining “genocide” at the time, you cannot impose sanctions under the name of “genocide”.

    Not in parliament, not at all.

    You MUST give this action another name!!!

    This new name you will give is not a crime of genocide.

    You [the Turks] occupied the Ottoman Empire, imposed the Treaty of Sevres on us and wanted to establish “Armenia” and “Kurdistan” in Anatolia, and we defended

    ourselves within the framework of the general rules of war.

    Who is LEGALLY right in this matter: Will Dutch politicians or Turkish politicians decide for this?

    Or do you want to suggest that the decision of a CHRISTIAN parliament is superior to the decision of independent courts of law?

    No problem, only then, we should not talk about the legal decision, but about the church’s decision of ENGISISM – SHERIA!!!

    As far as I know, due to the separation of powers in the Netherlands, politicians are not criminal judges.

    Criminal judges in the courts impose the sentence.

    Moreover, in order to prevent this unlawfulness, the rule of non-retroactivity of the law is also taken as a basis.

    Let’s assume that you apply the law retroactively, then again there is no problem and this time we should not talk about the Netherlands, which is a democracy, but about the

    REPUBLIC OF THE BANANA.

    Because if you disregard Article 7 of the ECHR and the Dutch Constitution, then everyone has the right to take their rights into their own hands.

    Second issue:

    Your motion constitutes a CRIME according to the Dutch Constitution and Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as according to the Dutch Constitution, which regulates the separation of powers (separating the powers of the politician from those of the judge and the police).

    Politicians are, according to the Dutch Constitution, only legislators and are strictly forbidden to exercise the power to act as judges or police officers.

    Moreover, you should know that by interpreting/assuming, distorting, and portraying the historical event as genocide, you are committing two kinds of CRIME, both politically and legally, in accordance with the basic principle that CRIMINAL LAW FORBIDS ANALOGY.

    According to the basic principle of “Nulla poena sine lege stricta” “Analogy is forbidden in criminal law”, a judge, let alone a politician, has no authority to make an analogy in his/her conscience, when sentencing someone, i.e. when accusing someone of being GENOCIDAL.

    Even if the judge finds the accused person guilty in his/her conscience, he/she cannot punish him/her according to his/her conscience if the act of the accused person does not fit the description in the law, the opposite situation/decision would be arbitrary and would constitute a crime of law.

    Back to the topic at hand.

    Since there was no penal code in 1915 defining the punishment for genocide, there can be no punishment based on this.

    Let alone a politician trying to impose punishment by comparing historical events, IN CRIMINAL LAW; a judge has no authority to interpret the law.

    But you put yourself in the place of the JUDGE, the COURT.

    This understanding of law may suit your understanding of Assyrian or Christian in the Netherlands, but according to international LAW NORMS, you have committed a crime.

    Moreover, even if the law in question is incomplete, the judge cannot make analogy in CRIMINAL LAW. And you!!!

    Who says that, the Dutch Constitution!!!!

    However, I have been living in Europe for more than 50 years and you have constantly nagged me, saying: “This is Europe, democratic laws apply here, adapt (integrate).”

    Your motion is based on the ALLEGATION that an act of genocide, which requires criminal sanctions, has been committed.

    In your motion, you also accuse the Ottoman Government [Turks] of genocide and hold the State of the Republic of Turkey, as the legal successor and heir of the Ottoman Empire, and its citizens responsible for the legal consequences of the genocide you claim.

    Accordingly, you are acting as if the crime attributed to the Ottoman Government has been PROVEN in a court of law, and in this sense, you are guilty of insult and slander under Articles 261 and 262 of the Dutch Criminal Code.

    Mr. Isa and your friends do not have such a final court decision?

    In this sense, making motions and passing resolutions in parliament without a court ruling to get someone to say “You are a murderer” or “You are a criminal” is the crime of slander and we reserve the right to file a lawsuit against these persons.

    And the result of the possible LIBEL case that will be concluded in our FAVOR will go down in the WORLD as an EXAMPLE DECISION, let it be known.

    Dear Dutch councilors,

    Not only we as ordinary citizens, but also the Dutch authorities or courts and especially YOU POLITICIANS are obliged to know these legal rules. Just to say:

    Ignorance of Articles 261 and 262 of the Dutch Criminal Code is not an excuse to escape a criminal offense: “Ignorantia legis non excuat” !!!

    It is a principle of law that a person’s ignorance of the law does not, by itself, absolve that person from responsibility.

    Now, I am going to talk about the FINAL DECISION of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which will upset all your imperial plans, which was taken on July 20, 1987, by the European Parliament, i.e. the whole of Europe, i.e. all of you, i.e. the 28 EU-member states, on the Armenian “genocide”, with the recommendation number “C 190”: “Turkiye cannot become a member of the EU unless it acknowledges the Armenian genocide”.

    Year 1999

    The EU and the then Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkiye, Mr. Bülent Ecevit, were at loggerheads over whether Turkiye could be a candidate for EU membership.

    Prime Minister Ecevit saw the challenge from you, the Europeans, and said: “We don’t want those who don’t want us” and finally, with the scenes you will remember, you invited

    Prime Minister Mr. Ecevit to Helsinki the very next day and decided on Turkiye’s candidacy for EU membership.

    Upon this, you have infuriated the Armenian Diaspora, with which you have religious sympathies, and your friend, the Armenian Diaspora, by becoming angry with you:

    – Referring to the July 20, 1987 European Parliament resolution C-190; by saying “Turkiye should first acknowledge the genocide it committed against Armenians and then be granted candidate status for membership, otherwise the EU would be undermining its extra-contractual responsibility” filed a lawsuit

    1-  against the European Parliament,

    2  – against the Council of the European Union and

    3  – against the European Commission,

    i.e. against ALL of you at the Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU].

    This case was dismissed by the First Chamber of the CJEU on December 17, 2003 with Judgment No. T-346/03.

    The Armenian Diaspora then appealed (challenged the judgment) and the appeal, which was heard by the Fourth Chamber of the CJEU, was again dismissed on 17.04.2004 with the final judgment C-18/04 P, in which your religious friends, the Armenians, were also ordered to pay court costs of €30,000.

    Evidence;

    I enclose the following in the attachment:

    1 – European Parliament Resolution “C 190” and

    2-   The judgment of the First Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Case No: T-346/03 and the finalized judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union, No.

    C-1804 P, in which the European Court of Justice sentenced the Armenian Diaspora to pay 30 thousand Euros in court costs in this case.

    [I can send you the Turkish translation of the aforementioned judgment of the ECJ, made by me as a sworn translator, to your address]

    And now I am telling you again:

    ”Don’t you think that the 28 EU states, including the Netherlands, legally humiliate yourselves by retaking the null and void political decision you took in 1987, now as the Netherlands, as a single state”?

    Or did you say that the Turks are incapable of understanding such LEGAL DETAILS and spoke in vain?

    Therefore, I demand that you immediately withdraw the above-mentioned motion, which has no legal basis.

    If you do not withdraw your motion, which has no legal basis, and despite everything, try to take a decision by submitting it to a vote in the Dutch Parliament and if a decision is taken on this issue, I would like to inform you that I reserve the right to initiate the necessary legal proceedings against the mover and the drafters of this motion in order to defend my legal rights, in order to ensure that the legislative, judicial and executive powers that exist on paper in the Netherlands are applied in practice.

    May 05, 2025.

    Mr. Isa Kahraman and his friends, I ask you now; “for all these reasons, am I on the wrong track?

    I would be grateful if you could enlighten me on this issue. With friendly greetings,

    Refik Mor
    [2003-2018 Neumünster Councillor-Germany] 
    Fehrsstr.8 24536 
    Neumünster-Germany 

    Additional Note

    Mr. Isa Kahraman and his party colleagues, on June 2, 2016, the German Bundestag, like you, made a LEGAL mistake and passed a resolution in the Bundestag stating that “The Armenian genocide happened”.

    However, as a result of the 6-page LEGAL CRIMINAL NOTICE I sent to all members of the Bundestag on June 2, 2016, the Bundestag held a press conference apologized in a way.

    As a result, to summarize;

    The so-called Armenian genocide allegation has reached a LEGAL resolution. A legally resolved problem is no longer a problem.

    The Turks have a RELIEVED CONSCIENCE in this matter!

  • The Cemil Önal Assassination: A Dutch Security Lapse or Deliberate Negligence?

    The Cemil Önal Assassination: A Dutch Security Lapse or Deliberate Negligence?

    On May 1, 2025, the assassination of Cemil Önal in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, marked a disturbing turning point not only for the world of organized crime but also for international law, intelligence cooperation, and state security. Önal was shot dead on a hotel terrace—a high-profile witness silenced in the open. The most pressing question remains: how could someone with such a critical dossier and insider knowledge be left so vulnerable?

    Dutch Media Headlines on the Assassination

    Leading Dutch media outlets gave wide coverage to the assassination:
    • De Telegraaf and Algemeen Dagblad ran headlines such as: “Mysterious Assassination in Rijswijk,” “Man of Turkish Origin Shot Dead in Hotel Room,” and “Missing Witness with Ties to Organized Crime Silenced.”
    • NOS reported: “Man Assassinated in Rijswijk Was Murder Suspect in Turkey,” referring to Önal’s alleged links to murders in Northern Cyprus.
    • NU.nl stated: “Police Confirm Rijswijk Victim Was Figure in Turkish Underworld.”
    • De Gelderlander and Nieuwsblad highlighted Önal’s tensions with high-level political circles in Turkey and suggested a possible link to the motive.

    Assassinated Under State Watch: Security or Open-Door Policy?

    Cemil Önal was no ordinary figure. He had provided a 120-page statement to Dutch and American intelligence agencies on the Halil Falyalı murder, illicit betting networks, and international money laundering operations. Such a high-value informant should have been under maximum protection from both the AIVD (Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service) and the CJIB (Central Judicial Collection Agency). But the opposite was true.

    Önal was staying openly at a hotel in Rijswijk—a neighborhood with a large Turkish population and known intelligence risks. The hotel itself was reportedly owned by Turkish nationals, information easily accessible in the local community. Despite having repeatedly informed the prosecutor’s office of threats to his life, no effective protection was provided. Critical questions arise:
    • Why did the Dutch government fail to secure Önal’s safety?
    • Why was he allowed to reside in a high-risk area instead of a secure, undisclosed location?
    • Was this a grave oversight—or a deliberate “look the other way” policy?

    Intelligence Failure or Diplomatic Apathy?

    This was not merely a murder—it was a diplomatic and intelligence failure of the highest order. A country like the Netherlands, committed to the rule of law, has now exposed a fatal weakness in its witness protection system. The Önal case proves that intelligence sharing and witness security protocols, though present on paper, failed in practice.

    Who Can Witnesses Trust Now?

    In the aftermath of this assassination, potential whistleblowers and informants will no longer see safety as their first option—but flight. Cemil Önal, a key witness who should have been protected by the state, was instead left to be executed. This was not just a bullet to his chest—it was a blow to anyone who believes in the protection of justice and the power of truth.

    Conclusion

    The Cemil Önal assassination is not merely the targeted killing of one man—it is a dark test of the Dutch state’s security reflexes, intelligence capabilities, and diplomatic responsibilities. The lessons to be drawn extend beyond the Netherlands, reaching every country engaged in the fight against transnational crime. The question now is this: What will the Dutch state do to ensure it never repeats such negligence, such willful blindness, or such a fatal security lapse?

  • Inuit–Mongol–Turk Homeland: The Past, Present, and Future of Greenland

    Inuit–Mongol–Turk Homeland: The Past, Present, and Future of Greenland

    Dear Academics, Students, and Members of the Administrative Staff,

    We are honored to invite you to the conference titled “Inuit–Mongol–Turk Homeland: The Past, Present, and Future of Greenland,” hosted by Antalya Bilim University and jointly organized by the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, the Mediterranean and Southeastern European Countries Research and Application Center (AKVAÇAM), the Tourism Studies Research and Application Center (TURAM), and the Center for Social, Economic and Political Research (SEPAM).

    The opening remarks of the conference will be delivered by the Esteemed Governor of Antalya, Mr. Hulusi Şahin, and the keynote presentation will be given by Prof. Dr. Harun Gümrükçü, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences.

    The conference will address the historical background of Greenland, the mysterious geography of the Arctic region, and its current political, economic, and military-strategic developments. Topics will include prehistoric migration waves from Asia, potential ethnolinguistic ties between the island and Turkic-Mongolic communities, Denmark’s administrative policies over Greenland, and the strategic dimensions of U.S. military bases established on the island during World War II.

  • Why doesn’t Europe accept Turkey into its Union?

    Why doesn’t Europe accept Turkey into its Union?

    Turks used to think that “the West” was a civilization. Yet for the past 100 years they have seen that this is not true. To be “a civilization,” they should act civilized; but they don’t. The latest examples: Two World Wars, Palestine genocide, childish nuclear pissing contest with Russia.

    On the contrary, the West was as bloody as any bloody period in human history, if not more so. They enriched themselves on the backs of the poor nations through open and hidden slavery, invaded areas with rich underground resources, eliminated much of the native populations, brought slaves, and dominated the world.

    They became richer, not because they were better people, but because they were not. This then gave them a superiority complex. Almost all wars were started by them.

    The superiority complex, made them racists, belittled any people who didn’t dress, talk, or lived like them. So, here we have a Europe who cannot stand Turks and their music, food, religion, just seeing them among themselves is enough to find any reason to reject entry into the EU.

    As an example, In the 20th Century, if you count Russia as part of the West, this academic report says the Western countries have killed 30 times more defenseless civilians as the Islamic World: https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM.

    The difference is not a percentage; it is 30 times. The disparity ratio increases to 60, if you eliminate the two Jewish leaders in the transition from the Ottoman-to-Republic period.

    The situation is not any better when it comes to starting wars and various conflicts around the world.

    So, I think the world should come up with a better definition of what “a civilization” is, to help educate the World public opinion to create a just and civil world order.

    This education should start how the Muslims taught them “equality among all before God,” and equal justice, mathematics, musical notes; how all major scientific disciplines were started by Muslims, including scientific methodology, mathematical algorithms, which are the bases of today’s computational science. Your students used to come to Islamic City universities to study. They all had large libraries.

    Did you get my meaning, EU?

    Or are you still busy robbing various nations of their diamond, rare elements, petroleum, natural gas, their cheap labor, so that you have no time to spare for Turkiye’s application to enter EU?

    Well, don’t bother. Many of us are fed up with your complexes also.Isn’t this the reason you sent your warships to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea immediately after the Hamas attack on Israel, to protect “your rights’ as a colonialist on the rich natural gas fields, worth hundreds of trillions of Dollars, that don’t belong to you but to the nations with shores on that sea.

    Güneş Ecer

  • Germany’s new dual citizenship law

    Germany’s new dual citizenship law

    Germany’s new dual citizenship law, passed on January 19, 2024, and enacted on June 27, 2024, allows individuals to acquire German citizenship while retaining their original nationality. This reform is the result of a 42-year effort by German-Turkish organizations and activists, including Professor Hakkı Keskin.

    Key changes under the new law include:

    • Reduced residency requirement for naturalization from 8 to 5 years, or even 3 years for those with strong German language skills.
    • Elimination of the written German language test for the first generation of immigrants arriving before 1974.
    • Automatic German citizenship for children born in Germany to at least one parent with legal residency of five years.
    • Exclusion of individuals who reject democratic principles, engage in hate speech, or advocate for Sharia law.

    The law signifies Germany’s recognition as a country of immigration and aims to promote inclusivity and social cohesion.

    Çifte Vatandaşlık Yasası Almanya`da dün, 27 Haziran 2024 de Yürürlüğe Girdi
  • Trusting the Greeks

    Trusting the Greeks

    In reality, the problem that lies at the root of the Cyprus problem and needs to be solved is the problem of ‘trust’.

    The number of Turkish Cypriots who sincerely trust the Greek Cypriots and Greeks is almost negligible.

    The roots of this mistrust go back to the early 20th century, but if we leave the past in the past and return to the present, we see that nothing has changed since then.

    As you know, the Greek Cypriots prevent all kinds of initiatives that will mention the name of the TRNC, that will bring the TRNC to the top and that will give the Turkish Cypriots a breath of fresh air. This includes touristic visits, economic and scientific activities.

    The Greek Cypriots are doing their best to isolate from the world the state that the Turkish Cypriots, who were subjected to a genocide between 1955 and 1974, similar to the genocide in Gaza today, managed to establish – as a result of their liberation in 1974 with the help and support of the motherland Turkey -.

    The Greeks, who have been terminating the negotiations that have been going on since 1968 to establish a so-called common state with the Turkish Cypriots, each time with a megalomaniacal attitude and with lame excuses, overturning the table and leaving, today, as if they were not the ones who left the negotiation table, they are trying to get the Turkish Cypriots to sit at the table, they are travelling from door to door and trying every way to put pressure on Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots.

    Recently, they did everything in their power to prevent our President Ersin Tatar from travelling to Australia and meeting with Australian local administrators and government members.

    They tried to do so, but this time they were not successful and for the first time a TRNC President was welcomed, hosted and visited Australia as ‘President’, even if not officially.

    The Greek Cypriots, who prevented the Turkish Cypriots from participating in international sports competitions, prevented the Turkish Cypriots from connecting to the world with direct flights, prevented the Turkish Cypriots from becoming an ‘observer’ member of the Organisation of Turkic States established by states of Turkish descent, and plotted all kinds of intrigues to prevent the Turkish Cypriots from establishing academic, commercial, industrial, social and cultural ties with the states of the world, have run out of credit, and it has become impossible for them to expect love and respect from the Turkish Cypriots.

    Although the UN representatives meet with the anti-TRNC people in the TRNC and present them as the general opinion of the Turkish Cypriots, the vast majority of the Turkish Cypriots do not want to establish a common state with the Greek Cypriots, who have been carrying out armed, economic and political attacks to destroy them for the last century, and where they will be relegated to minority status like the Maronites, Armenians and Latins after a while.

    The inhumane practices of the Atlantic Alliance, which isolates them from the world and does not recognise laws and rules, has been a great lesson to the Turkish Cypriots about who they can trust. 

    The Atlantic Alliance, which has been providing financial and arms support to the terrorist formation operating under the names of PKK, YPG and similar names in the territory of North East Syria for years, is now trying to give legal status to their existence by supporting them to hold local elections illegally, but unfortunately, it has not imposed any sanctions to be taken seriously on the rulers of the ‘Hellenic Republic of Cyprus’, Greek Cypriots and Greece, who declared the ‘Hellenic Republic of Cyprus’ by overthrowing the internationally recognised ‘Republic of Cyprus’ by staging a coup d’état in Cyprus on 15 July 1974 and declared the ‘Hellenic Republic of Cyprus’ and announced the annexation of the island of Cyprus to Greece the next day. (Turkey, which saved the Turkish Cypriots from genocide and extinction, was subjected to an ‘arms and financial embargo’ immediately after the 1974 Peace Operation). In the United Nations Organisation, of which they are the protector and founder, they took the decision dated 18 November 1983 and numbered 541, which is a disgrace to humanity, isolating the Turkish Cypriots from the world.

    Now, while they are trying to illegally create a terrorist state in North East Syria, which will be completely under their control, I leave it to you to interpret the aim of bringing together two communities that have fought each other and whose anger has not subsided on the island where the world’s longest-lasting conflict is taking place, and giving the administration to the Greeks. Here, there is a 41-year-old state with all its institutions – not counting the Federated State – and there is an attempt to have terrorists establish a state there!

    What kind of global justice is this? Who, why and how should we trust?

    Prof. Dr. (Civil Engineer), Assoc. Prof. Dr. (UA. Relations) Ata ATUN

    Member of the Advisory Board of the TRNC President

    TRNC Republican Assembly 1st Term Deputy