{"id":107042,"date":"2014-05-01T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=107042"},"modified":"2023-04-27T14:13:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T11:13:24","slug":"men-in-masquerade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2014\/05\/01\/men-in-masquerade\/","title":{"rendered":"MEN IN MASQUERADE"},"content":{"rendered":" Photo taken in the northern Syria town of Raqqa. (Courtesy: Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently)\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In case you are one of the millions of Turks still celebrating the fact that Fenerbah\u00e7e, to no one\u2019s great surprise, won the league football championship, well, you need to get a grip on reality, painful as that might be. The so-called \u201cnews\u201d-papers still regurgitate this gloriously boring \u201cnews.\u201d Tapes of the melodramatic fan and player antics after Sunday\u2019s no-score game still runs on the sports channels. And thus all seems right with the world. Except it\u2019s not. The world is horrible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One really must wonder about the mentality of the Turkish people. Their government is causing a slaughter, if not a genocide, of the Syrian people. And I mean, specifically, that the Syrian Alevites are being directly targeted by Sunni Jihad proxies financed by Turkey. It\u2019s a political \u201cthing\u201d dealing with pipedreams of a neo-Ottoman Sunni empire. By definition, that targeting constitutes a genocide. But the terror spread throughout Syria by Turkey and America affects all the Syrian people, Islamic, Christian, Jewish, atheist, all of them. These bankrolled gangsters are cutthroat killers. Killers kill. But cutthroat killers mutilate. All this should make one wonder. So I do.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly I wonder why the allegedly good-hearted, the self-proclaimed \u201chospitable\u201d Turks show such little interest and concern about the bloody massacre just next-door caused by their bloody-handed government. It\u2019s no secret. It\u2019s been no secret for years. After all, Seymour Hersh\u2019s article was more affirmation than news. But in Turkey, the approved story on Syria is mostly simple-minded propaganda. Suddenly two years ago, Bashar al<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>Assad became a bad guy. And Erdo\u011fan was hired by America to do what he does best. But now the truth is out. And things have moved from horrible to catastrophic.<\/p>\n<p>So what consumes their interest, these Turkish people? Why do they now fixate ad nauseam, on television and in the press, on the Ottoman slaughter, if not genocide (the words all mean \u201cmass murder\u201d) of the Armenians in 1915? \u00a01915! Then, a war was on. The Russians were enemies. Turkey\u2019s eastern Armenians collaborated. War is murder. Blah-blah-blah. 100 years ago! 100 years ago! Yet today, the Turkish government openly exports death and destruction and Jihadist terrorism to their neighbor, Syria. And nothing happens. Football. Family. Life is busy. What\u2019s for dinner?<\/p>\n<p>Turkish people! What kind of a social conscience do you have? To silently sit while events of Nazi proportions are being done to the Syrian people by your government? It seems inconceivable that you can fill the streets for Fenerbah\u00e7e football but not even mumble a care about what your tax money is doing to the Syrian people. You know the story of the people who watched the freight trains come and go through the tiny town of O\u015bwi\u0119cim (Auschwitz). They also said they didn\u2019t \u201cknow.\u201d But the camps were only a kilometer away. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know.\u201d Will that also be your alibi? Denial.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish people, get real! Wake up from your football-slumber! You allowed the prime minister to appear on the Charlie Rose Show and lie, misrepresent, and double-talk to the world. He does to the world what he does at home. It is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>He said that during legal protests every other country beats and gasses and kills its citizens. So what\u2019s the problem? And neither you nor Charlie said anything.<\/p>\n<p>He said, how can a country be corrupt when it has had such dramatic economic growth? And neither you nor Charlie mentioned that he (the prime minister) sold ALL the assets of the nation to finance the destruction of the cities and nature itself. And that everyone in favor politically has a piece of the action. That this growth \u201cmiracle\u201d is based on plunder and crony-capitalism. And that\u2019s the economic truth.<\/p>\n<p>He said, how can he be a dictator when 45.5% of the people vote for him. And neither you nor Charlie asked about the majority of the people\u201454.5%\u2014that voted against him. And why!<\/p>\n<p>He said that he didn\u2019t know Fethullah G\u00fclen was such a threat until 17 December 2013 when he made a \u201ccoup.\u201d And neither you nor Charlie Rose said, \u201cNonsense!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Nonsense, it is. As everyone knows, G\u00fclen disclosed his own treacherous plan 15 years ago. That\u2019s why he escaped from his country into the warm embrace of the CIA and the Green-Card Land called Pennsylvania. Surely everyone knows that G\u00fclen, a master of disguise, was recorded advising his treasonous followers that:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">\u201cYou\u00a0must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your\u00a0existence\u00a0until you reach all the power centers\u2026. You must wait until such time as\u00a0you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the\u00a0power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And fifteen years ago Erdo\u011fan was one of his adherents. Without G\u00fclen and the CIA, Erdo\u011fan would never have left the Kas\u0131mpa\u015fa neighborhood of Istanbul. And even an ordinary journalist, let alone Charlie Rose, should have known this. Does Charlie know the real reason why G\u00fclen, no angel himself, is now Erdo\u011fan\u2019s sworn enemy? If Charlie only knew a few journalistic facts he would have quickly figured it all out. We all have, and we\u2019re not respected journalists at all. \u00a0We\u2019re not even respected. So here\u2019s the truth (and now I\u2019m whispering): On 17 December 2013, a G\u00fclenian wind blew the roof off the massive corruption enterprise called the government of Turkey.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">Actually Charlie Rose only masquerades as a journalist, as elementary-school educated G\u00fclen masquerades as an Islamic scholar, as Erdo\u011fan masquerades as a statesman, as Abdullah G\u00fcl masquerades as a head of state and as the CIA masquerades as a patriotic, law abiding part of the American government. In Turkey, everyone is someone else and everyone plays dress-up. Welcome to the Mardi Gras a la Turka. It\u2019s a political-social condition called Deceit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, now the terrorists gangsters, financed, fed and armed by Turkey, are performing a new trick, crucifixion. They apparently grew tired of eating the pulsating hearts of their victims and mutilating their corpses. This is what happens when nitwits make foreign policy. False-flag Turkey supplies thugs with sarin gas. America supplies them with TOW missiles. The inmates run the asylum. Everything is out of control. Crucifixions! The mind cannot grasp the horror. Turkey no longer has borders. Turkey no longer has a viable military chain-of-command. Nor has it a viable judiciary. All of this has been brought about by the man who would now be president. Do the Turkish people know his credentials for the job? Is this the ultimate masquerade?<\/p>\n<p>Turkish people, Get real! Wake up! The day will come when this Turkish government will be in the dock at The Hague for war crimes. Turkish people! By your silence, by your media\u2019s collaboration in this criminal enterprise, by everyone passively accepting the commission of these war crimes, so too will your consciences be on trial. You and the country may never recover from these awful deeds done in your name.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what have you allowed your ballot boxes to do to your Syrian friends and neighbors and even families! How needy you must be to sell out for bribes of coal and rice, and some of you for so much more.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what have you allowed your passive, inept political opposition parties to do\u2026and not do!<\/p>\n<p>All the plunder, all the gold, all the dollars, all the shoeboxes, the airports, the money-counting machines, the tunnels, the bridges, the million-dollar wristwatches, the power plants, the shopping centers, the football frenzies and their obscenely expensive stadiums, all of this stuff that masquerades as democracy and capitalism and social value will not buy one second of relief from the coming guilt and shame. Murder, destruction, sickness, starvation, complete barbarism has been unleashed from Turkey. Turkey has raped and murdered Syria. And this is happening now, not a century ago. Crucifixion, a final act of savagery, killed a man named Christ and created Christianity. From evil came good. But in Turkey\u2019s case\u2026one wonders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/308391_mainimg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-107045\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/308391_mainimg.jpg\" alt=\"308391_mainimg\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/308391_mainimg.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/308391_mainimg-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">Would you not agree?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium\">James (Cem) Ryan<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium\">Istanbul<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">1 May 2014<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\"><strong>RELATED ARTICLES:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>TURKEY\u2019S POOR PLAYER<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>FINAL CURTAIN<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>SEYMOUR M. HERSH<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish people! What kind of a social conscience do you have? To silently sit while events of Nazi proportions are being done to the Syrian people by your government? 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