Israelis, Armenians booed at European Youth Olympics in Turkey
At the European Youth Olympics in Trabzon, Turkey, athletes from Israel and Armenia were greeted with hostility. 3,000 participants from 49 countries are participating (Hat Tip: Joshua I).At the wake of the deadly events in Norway, the crowd held a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack of June 22. However, what one Turkish journalist noted was the hatred in the air towards the Armenian and Israeli athletes.What could go wrong?
“Yes, there was a moment of silence for those murdered in Norway and all other victims of terrorism,” wrote Murat Yetkin, a Hurriyet columnist, “but the young athletes from Armenia and Israel were booed by local spectators because of the political and cultural atmosphere.”
“Yet, due to the decades-long cultural pollution as a result of indoctrination going back to the years of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the traces of the atmosphere of hatred is still around,” he added.
Labels: Armenia, Turkish obsession with Israel
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:46 PM
2 Comments:
This is the Turkey Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu want to offer an apology to.
What could go wrong indeed
We should remind Turkey that it should withdraw from occupied territories in Cyprus. That it should stop bombing the kurdish people and grant them self determination.. Stop apologizing, start the offensive...
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