Turkey’s Erdogan: Foreigners “want us dead, they like seeing our children die”

Show me your friends and I’ll show you who you are (and what you are). Obama named Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan one of his most trusted foreign allies. Obama said that the “friendships and the bonds of trust” that he has been able to forge are “precisely, or is a big part of, what has allowed us to execute effective diplomacy.” “That’s part of the reason we’ve been able to forge these close working relationships and gotten a whole bunch of stuff done.” Yes, Obama, you have worked wonders with Putin, Netanyahu, Morsi, Libya, Syria, and the Eastern European countries.

The enemedia never calls him out on talking such trash. Erdogan has dragged Turkey kicking and screaming back into a dark, airless Islamic state. And now he is preaching more paranoia and xenophobia.

U.S. President Obama shakes hands with Turkey's PM Erdogan in Seoul

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“Foreigners don’t like Muslims, only their money: Turkish President Erdoğan,” Agence France-Presse, November 27, 2014:

“Foreigners” are unable to solve the problems of the Middle East because Western states “don’t like us” and are more interested in just following the cash, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Nov. 27.

“Only we can solve our problems. I speak openly; foreigners love oil, gold, diamonds, and the cheap labor force of the Islamic world. They like the conflicts, fights and quarrels of the Middle East. Believe me, they don’t like us,” said Erdoğan during an address to the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (COMCEC) in Istanbul.

“They look like friends, but they want us dead, they like seeing our children die. How long will we stand that fact?” he added.

Erdoğan said Middle Eastern countries could solve their problems by themselves without any help from the West.

“The only condition to overcome the crisis in the Islamic world is unity, solidarity and alliance. Believe me, we can resolve every problem as long as we are united. Islamic countries, which have developed economically recently, have been experiencing the biggest humanitarian and political crisis in their history simultaneously,” the Turkish president said.

“If we act together, we will end the loneliness of Palestine which has continued for nearly one century … It is possible to end the bloodshed in Iraq and killing of Syrian children if we unite,” he said.

‘Ego complex’

He also savaged critics of his remarks that Muslim explorers traveled to the Americas before Columbus as suffering from an “ego complex,” reaffirming his belief their purported feat was an historical fact.

“I have been the target of heavy criticism by the Western media. Just because I repeated a fact based on scientific research, I have been targeted by the Western media, as well as the foreigners within who suffer from an ego complex,” he said.

Erdoğan stirred controversy earlier this month by declaring that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic. He did not elaborate as to why the claim is only found in some obscure sources and is not known more widely.

Erdoğan insisted the criticism was aimed at preventing Muslims from “questioning anything.”

“They have been very disturbed by the fact that we have reminded them of some historical facts, the history of civilization, science, politics and war. They don’t want us to question anything,” he said.

Erdogan cited as evidence the claim that “Columbus mentioned the existence of a mosque on a hill on the Cuban coast,” and asked to build a mosque at the site mentioned by the Genoese explorer.

Most history books say Columbus set foot on the American continent in 1492 as he was seeking a new maritime route to India. A tiny minority of Muslim scholars have recently suggested a prior Muslim presence in the Americas, although no pre-Columbian ruin of an Islamic structure has ever been found.

In a controversial article published in 1996, historian Youssef Mroueh referred to a diary entry from Columbus that mentions a mosque in Cuba. But the passage is widely understood to be a metaphorical reference to the mosque-like shape of the landscape.

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