Serious Turkey: Erdogan taking advantage of pandemic to scapegoat Christians and deny them basic rights

[duluxe]

While socialists and Antifa attack the history of the U.S. and the U.K. and ignore their development of societies that recognize and protect equal justice for all, Christians are being massacred and persecuted in majority-Muslim countries, with little international attention given to their plight. “Turkish authorities have started to simply assign land owned by a community or a private person to other owners, in effect expropriating it from the Christians. During the armed confrontation with the Kurds, churches in this part of the country have also been destroyed.”

Since 2016 and before that, Jihad Watch has been reporting about how rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey was escalating the persecution of Christians, some of whom even live in fear of their own neighbors killing them. Attacks on Christian cemeteries in Turkey have also increased. In March, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” disrupted a Christian funeral.

Scholar Alexander Görlach also noted that the Turkish government was taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic and recession to pressure and scapegoat Christians. And while the West welcomes Muslim migrants, “In the wake of the recent Turkish military offensive in northern Syria, some 200,000 people, many of them Christians, have been forced to flee their homes. They are currently unable to return due to the conflict.”



“Opinion: Christians a welcome scapegoat in Turkey,” by Alexander Görlach, DW, June 23, 2020:

The persecution of Christians in Turkey continues. While the world is busy fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, dealing with mass unemployment and a global recession, the Turkish government is taking advantage of the situation to further pressure minorities. The marginalization of Turkey’s Christians isn’t new for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: He’s been busy reorganizing his secular republic into a mixture of Ottomanism and Islam for some time now.
Recently, the Syriac-Aramaic Christians in the country’s southeast, in particular, had to fear for their rights and property. This religious community is one of the world’s oldest churches. Aramaic, the language the community uses in worship, is thought to have been spoken by Jesus Christ himself.
Systematic discrimination
Turkish authorities have started to simply assign land owned by a community or a private person to other owners, in effect expropriating it from the Christians. During the armed confrontation with the Kurds, churches in this part of the country have also been destroyed.
In the wake of the recent Turkish military offensive in northern Syria, some 200,000 people, many of them Christians, have been forced to flee their homes. They are currently unable to return due to the conflict.
Erdogan has promised to let the churches be rebuilt. But the long-running and systematic discrimination against Turkey’s Christian minority suggests he isn’t really serious about reviving Christian religious life.
On trial for following his faith
Take the case of Sefer Bilecen. In January, the Syriac Orthodox priest from Mardin in southeastern Turkey was accused of being a member of a terrorist group. He is said to have given water and bread to Kurdish fighters who knocked at the gate of his monastery.
In his defense, the priest has argued that he would provide help to anyone who asked for it — it’s his Christian duty. He has since been released from prison after various aid organizations intervened, but is still on trial….
Step by step, using a nationalist and Islamic rhetoric, Turkey’s Christians are becoming a welcome scapegoat for Ankara….

 

[syed putra]

Christians are lucky. Kurds had it worse. And those opposition to erdogan who are fellow muslims are currently detained maybe tortured.
Middle east is split into 2 camps. Erdogan's turkey, qatar and iran/ iraq v saudi , egypt and uae.
Libya its between these two.tyrkush troops already in tripoli, egypt army getting ready at border.
Yemen same thing. Saudi v iran
Syria. Saudi backed IS v ruling shiites backed by iran and now turkey.

 

[A Singaporean]

I think Muslims in ME should continue to kill each other. Otherwise they will kill other innocent people.

 

[syed putra]

I think Muslims in ME should continue to kill each other. Otherwise they will kill other innocent people.

They were docile fir centuries until israel was created.

 

[A Singaporean]

They were docile fir centuries until israel was created.

They have been fighting each other for centuries. If they don't kill they will fuck their sisters or daughters. Glad that China is eradicating this venonmous religion in Xinjiang. Furthermore Modi is doing the same by not granting them citizenships.

 

[JohnTan]

Since 2016 and before that, Jihad Watch has been reporting about how rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey was escalating the persecution of Christians, some of whom even live in fear of their own neighbors killing them. Attacks on Christian cemeteries in Turkey have also increased. In March, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” disrupted a Christian funeral.

Moslems are the anti-Christ. Anti-Christ literally means that- anti-Christians, anti-Christ. It's not a new phenomenon. Since the beginning of islam, moslems have repeated invaded Christian territories for over a thousand years to destroy Christianity.

 

[JohnTan]

They were docile fir centuries until israel was created.

History points otherwise. Moslems were repeatedly invading and raiding Christian lands, following in the path of their prophet and his companions, who were nearly all caravan raiders and bandits themselves.

 

[syed putra]

Moslems are the anti-Christ. Anti-Christ literally means that- anti-Christians, anti-Christ. It's not a new phenomenon. Since the beginning of islam, moslems have repeated invaded Christian territories for over a thousand years to destroy Christianity.

Without muslims, chrustians would not have sailed westward looking for china snd ended up with the americas.