Anti-Semitism we rarely hear about

[Armodillo]

Hitler´s ´Mein Kampf´ A Best-Seller in Turkey
00:30 Mar 23, '05 / 12 Adar 5765

Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, a bestseller in many sectors of the Muslim world, has become a best seller in Turkey – traditionally considered a moderate country.


Tens of thousands of Turkish-language copies of Hitler’s book - the English title of which is “My Struggle” - have been snatched off the shelves ever since they were reprinted in Turkey several months ago. The book outlines Hitler’s plans for world domination and his intense hatred of Jews.

Muslim apologists attribute the book’s popularity to its cheap price. It was printed in paperback form with out the permission of the German state of Bavaria, which owns the rights to the book.

"The book Mein Kampf should not be reprinted," Bavarian Finance Minister Kurt Faltlhauser said in an official statement. "The state of Bavaria administers the copyright very restrictively to prevent an increase of Nazi ideas."

Lina Filiba, executive vice president of Turkey's Jewish Community, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the popularity of Hitler's book is "disturbing." She said it was part of a "worrying trend" that includes the sale of anti-Semitic publications such as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion at popular local department stores.

Since January, the book has sold more than 50,000 copies and is #4 on the bestseller list drawn up by the D&R bookstore chain. Traditionally priced at about $20 a copy, it now sells for about $5.50 and less.

Turkish political scientist Dogu Ergil sees the book's rise in popularity as evidence of anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and Nazism. "Buried in the dustbin of history in Europe, Nazims is beginning to re-emerge in Turkey," he warned.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=78801

[Anahit]

turkish clowns, we all know you LOVE Hamas.

-----------------------

Turkey, Israel spar over Hamas



CAPTION: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan giving the love sign to Hamas on behalf of turks. Credit: Courtesy of Turkish Embassy

NEWS ANALYSIS
By Yigal Schleifer

ISTANBUL, Feb. 26 (JTA) -- Israeli and Turkish officials say relations between the two countries are back on track following a strong disagreement over the recent visit to Ankara of a top-ranking Hamas leader, but repercussions from the trip are continuing to be felt both inside and outside Turkey.

Breaking ranks with the American, European and Israeli policy of refusing to meet with Hamas until it recognizes Israel's right to exist and denounces terrorism, Ankara hosted the group's top political leader, Khaled Meshaal, for a one-day visit on Feb. 16. Meshaal, who lives in exile in Damascus, met with Turkey's foreign
minister, Abdullah Gul, and other Foreign Ministry officials.

The visit led to a swift and angry denunciation from Israel. ``How would you feel if we got together with Abdullah Ocalan?" Israeli government spokesmen Ra'anan Gissin said during an interview on Turkish television, referring to the imprisoned leader the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, an outlawed Kurdish militant group that fought a bloody war against Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, called Gissin's statement ``totally baseless and wrong," adding in a released statement, ``We relayed our discomfort and dissatisfaction with this statement to Israel."

An initial attempt to smooth Israel's feathers failed when the Israeli ambassador to Turkey, Pinchas Avivi, refused to attend a Turkish Foreign Ministry briefing on the Hamas meeting. The next day, though, Avivi went to the Ankara headquarters of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party, where he met with top party leaders to discuss the future of the Turkish-Israeli relationship. ``After a few days of a mini-crisis, things are returning to their normal track and everything is continuing as normal," Avivi told JTA, speaking by telephone from his office in
Ankara. ``I am convinced that this will not lead to anything else."

But even one week after Meshaal's visit, the debate in Turkey over the wisdom of the trip continued unabated, with the Turkish media filled columns overwhelmingly critical of the government's decision to host the Hamas leader and accusing the leaders of the AKP of inviting Meshaal over the objections of career diplomats at the
Foreign Ministry. The AKP is descended from the reformist wing of Turkey's political Islam movement and the party's leader, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, caused a crisis in Turkish-Israeli relations a year ago when he on several occasions referred to Israel's actions against the Palestinians as ``state terror."

``A diplomatic blunder!" Cengiz Candar, a leading Turkish political analyst, wrote about the visit in a column in the English-language daily The New Anatolian.

"Turkey, naturally, is not obliged to obtain permission from Israel or the U.S. in formulating and following a Middle East policy of its own. However, when it comes to an extremely sensitive, complicated and murky issue such as the Palestinian question, it is obviously a necessity to take into consideration the international balance of forces," Candar wrote.

The Meshaal visit was also strongly criticized in the United States, where both members of Congress and leaders of Jewish organizations -- who have frequently acted as the main lobbyists on Turkey's behalf in Washington -- expressed their deep dismay over Ankara's actions.

"The meetings send the wrong signal that Ankara is willing to deal with a terrorist organization whose platform call for the destruction of Israel and is in direct contrast to the U.S., E.U. and international communities' desired goals of lasting peace and security in the Middle East," Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), co-chairman of the Congressional Turkey Caucus and the Congressional Study Group on Turkey, said in a statement.

``Ankara's decision to give Hamas 'undeserved legitimacy,' " he continued, ``is shocking considering that Turkey has been victimized by terrorist organizations like the PKK."

Meanwhile, leaders of the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and B'nai B'rith International held a meeting in Washington with Turkey's ambassador to the United States to convey their dissatisfaction with Meshaal's visit.

``Hosting Hamas, which continues to call for the destruction of Israel, a friend and partner of Turkey, was a tragic mistake," said David Harris, executive director of the AJCommittee. ``Anything that confers legitimacy on Hamas before it fulfills the requirements of the Quartet will only undermine prospects for peace, in which Turkey has invested so heavily."

A top Jewish official in Washington said the Meshaal visit has left many on Capitol Hill scratching their heads.

``There is a lot of dissatisfaction here in Washington. The question we are all asking is what did Turkey get out of this?" said the official, who asked not to be named.

``It was counterproductive, both as foreign policy and regarding relations with groups that are very important for Turkey," the official added, pointing out that after his meetings in Turkey, Meshaal continued on to Iran, where he was warmly received by the controversial Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Turkish officials, though, denied that the Hamas leader's visit was a blunder. According to a senior Foreign Ministry official, the visit was used as an opportunity to pass to Hamas the message that they cannot resort to violence and that they must recognize Israel's right to exist.

``We told them that there is no second chance to make first impressions," the official said.

``It is a process that will continue for some time, but the important thing is to give them clear and strong messages and we are planning to keep the channels open with both sides. The alternative is chaos, complications and instability," the official added.

Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, described the Meshaal visit not so much as a blunder as an outgrowth of the current Turkish government's desire to improve its relations with its Arab neighbors and to strengthen its role as a mediator in the Middle East.
But he warned that the Turkish approach might be misguided.

``The role that AKP says it wants to play by this trip, of being an interlocutor, is actually being damaged by this trip because the Israelis are now saying that the Turks are not an neutral actor anymore," he said. ``The more they continue along this line, the more the Israelis will see them as being sympathetic to Hamas."

Added Cagaptay: ``It will be very difficult to mend the bridges if we see more steps along this line, of the AKP government's sympathizing with Hamas and its position.''

http://www.juf.org/news_public_affai...e.asp?key=6827

[Armodillo]

HITLER'S MEIN KAMPF IS A BESTSELLER IN TURKEY
12 June 2005

The infamous manifesto penned in prison during the 1920s by one of history's greatest despots has become a bestseller in Turkey, a troubling sign of increasing anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism.

Since January, Mein Kampf has sold more than 50,000 copies, rising to No. 4 on the bestseller list. The book outlines Hitler's plans for world domination and his intense hatred of the Jewish people.

[Mil]

Have any of you Armenians - ever actually lived in Armenia?

[Elin]

Repeating the same thing,ignorant has nothing to say more,go to school,read some books,educate yourself little bit..

Moderators will close this thread too..

[Armodillo]

Mein Kampf becomes bestseller in Turkey

ANKARA: Cheap cover prices and a rise in nationalist sentiment have made an unlikely best-seller in Turkey of Adolf Hitler's infamous autobiography, Mein Kampf. Since January, the book has sold more than 50,000 copies and is number four on the best-seller list drawn up by the D&R bookstore chain.

Mein Kampf has always been a sleeper, a secret best-seller.

The readership? Those who want to know about a man who wreaked death and destruction on the world and everone knows how turks are into that stuff big time.

This book, which does not contain a single ounce of humanity, unfortunately appears to be taken seriously in turkey, but from their past record, this shouldn't surprise anyone.

[sharonbn]

you damn right they will
CLOSED