Little Adolf to file ICJ case against Gaza blockade, threatens Israel again
Little On Friday, Turkey expelled Israel's ambassador and froze military agreements with Israel after a UN report on the killing of nine Turks during an IDF raid on a Gaza-bound ship a year.His basis for a case is that the Palmer Commission contradicted the 'Human Rights Council'? ROTFL! Whose taxes are going to finance that case?
The UN report concluded that the blockade was "a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons entering Gaza by sea."
Davutoglu said Turkey did not accept that conclusion, noting that it contradicted the UN Human Rights Council's findings.
"We will start the application process to the International Court of Justice within the next week, for an investigation into what the Gaza blockade really is," Davutoglu told TRT news channel.
YNet adds:
In an interview with Turkey's state-run TRT television, Davutoglu dismissed a UN report into the raid that said Israel's naval blockade of Gaza was a legal security measure. Davutoglu said the report - prepared by former New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer, and former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, and presented to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon - was not endorsed by the United Nations and was therefore not binding.Something tells me that Little
"What is binding is the International Court of Justice," Davutoglu said. "This is what we are saying: let the International Court of Justice decide."
"We are starting the necessary legal procedures this coming week," he said.
Davutoglu also came up with this one:
Davutoğlu also said Turkey would take every precaution it considers necessary for the safety of maritime navigation in the East Mediterranean, as the country with the longest coastline there. Turkey’s military presence in the East Mediterranean is expected to be boosted in the upcoming days. The move could be considered as a manifestation of Turkey’s position rejecting Gaza’s blockade, a Turkish diplomat said.Of course, that's not directed only at Israel.
Using Turkish naval vessels to escort ships carrying aid to Palestine and observing free navigation in the zone between the island of Cyprus and Israel are among the plans set to be implemented, sources said, adding that Turkish war ships would be more frequently seen in the area.The big player in the Cyprus drilling is US-based Noble Energy. If George W. Bush were still President, the Turks would be forced to stand down, but with Barack Hussein Obama in the White House, there is no king, and every rogue country behaves as it wishes.
The zone described by Turkish sources has been the subject of a recent diplomatic struggle between Turkey and Greek Cyprus over the latter’s project to start drilling natural gas reserves. Greek Cyprus and Israel recently agreed to jointly initiate the drilling with the participation of some American companies.
Turkey sees the gas-exploration deal as an agreement between two hostile countries against Turkey and has urged both parties not to get involved in such a project before a solution is found to the Cyprus issue in order to preserve the stability of the eastern Mediterranean.
In an interview with daily Zaman on Friday, EU Minister Egemen Bağış hinted that Turkish Navy could intervene if Greek Cyprus does not call off the project. “That’s what a navy is for,” he said.
How long can a Turkish temper tantrum last? Based on the last two and a half years, it can last for quite a long time.
Oh yes, and Erdogan is planning to visit Gaza. What could go wrong?
Labels: Turkish obsession with Israel, Turkish occupation of Cyprus
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:34 PM
6 Comments:
Sounds to me like he's threatening acts of war. And he accuses Israel of being a bully. LOL!! I'd call him a horse's back end but I like horses.
Someone sounds terrified of an Israel/Greece/Cyprus Eastern Med alliance.
Let an israeli sub torpedoe one of those turkish frigates convoying te terrorist ships aimed for Gaza
Just betting that this ramping up in Turkey is what the military leaders' resignation was all about. It would be interesting to interview them if they escaped the country. I bet they refused or Erdogen didn't trust them to pull off the real slaughter I imagine his ideology (or theology?) is demanding of him.
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/07/turkish-militarys-mass-resignations.html
Once the Turkish military guardians of modernity couldn't reject Erdogen's party in the '02 election, or whenever it was that they finally bullied their way in, it was only a matter of time before Erdogen would try to kill Jews as he did sending Flotilla I.
They [the Turks] were, upon the whole, from the black day when they first entered Europe, the one great anti-human specimen of humanity. Wherever they went, a broad line of blood marked the track behind them, and, as far as their dominion reached, civilization disappeared from view. They represented everywhere government by force, as opposed to government by law."- William Gladstone, 1876.
Have a great week Carl.
Will
that's a quote from that Book Gladstone wrote Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East.
Were you too ashamed to post the whole quote? In any case, Gladstone's words are nonsense. Ironic you should quote Gladstone, when these views were the ones that discredited Gladstone against Disraeli's in the eyes of the Queen, whose favour he was courting.
Further proof of why you cause deserves nothing but contempt. A cause built on lies and distortions,
Turkey has been maligned by European public opinion – thanks to Greeks and the Liberal Party
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100084135/turkey-has-been-maligned-by-european-public-opinion-%E2%80%93-thanks-to-greeks-and-the-liberal-party/
This became a cause in the West, and Liberal leader William Gladstone went up and down Britain whipping up outrage, and writing a bestseller, Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East. Yet the Bulgarians were no innocents, and the British ambassador in Constantinople, Austen Henry Layard, told the foreign secretary that Gladstone was lying.
As Stone says: “A curious collection of would-be high-minded clergymen, professors of English history who did not know anything substantial about the area, seem to have acquired a caricature vision of the Turks, lolling around in harems, smoking hashish and ravishing virgins.”
The worst violence was yet to come. In 1897 there was an uprising in Crete, still part of the empire, which eventually the Greeks won, but history ignores the unfortunate fact that Crete was one third Muslim.
This became a cause in the West, and Liberal leader William Gladstone went up and down Britain whipping up outrage, and writing a bestseller, Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East. Yet the Bulgarians were no innocents, and the British ambassador in Constantinople, Austen Henry Layard, told the foreign secretary that Gladstone was lying. As Stone says: “A curious collection of would-be high-minded clergymen, professors of English history who did not know anything substantial about the area, seem to have acquired a caricature vision of the Turks, lolling around in harems, smoking hashish and ravishing virgins.”
The worst violence was yet to come. In 1897 there was an uprising in Crete, still part of the empire, which eventually the Greeks won, but history ignores the unfortunate fact that Crete was one third Muslim. “Within a decade, Crete was in effect free, and what the world now knows as ‘ethnic cleansing’ went ahead – the Muslims cruelly pushed out, with a great deal of killing. If, two generations later, the Turks resisted very strongly over Cyprus, where there was a comparable situation, this needs to be put in context.”
Most controversially, Stone argues that if the mass murder of Armenians in World War One was genocide, then “it could legitimately be extended to cover the fates of the millions of Muslims driven from the Balkans or the Caucasus as the Ottoman Empire receded”.
The abiding hatred between Greeks and Turks culminated with the burning down of Smyrna, the transfer of a million and a half people in 1922 and, finally in 1955, the final pogrom that ended two and a half millennia of Greek life there.
Greek culture, that is, for the Turks themselves are largely descended from Greeks, and Stone goes as far as to say they are the real heirs to Byzantium. “Byzantium had really been destroyed by the Italians, not the Turks who, if anything, had saved it. Ancient Greece had been destroyed by Celts, after Alexander, and then she had been destroyed all over again by Slavs in the eight century. She had been re-hellenized by the Byzantines, and Greek nationalists could never agree as to whether they were Hellenes or – clerically – Byzantines.”
But, Stone says, the tragedy of Greco-Turkish hatred should not overshadow the achievements of the Turkish Republic,
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