The morals of Damascus vultures
Il Giornale, June 03rd, 2013
Drama turning into farce is no news. Here we have a story of vultures. Syria, full of joy that its enemy, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, is in trouble due to the huge wave of protests that yesterday in the evening took again to the streets in Istanbul, makes a move drifting for a second from burying all of its victims. From the bloodied hell where more than 80 thousand citizens were killed in clashes with Assad, his Foreign Minister is advising Syrian tourists (I can already picture them in shorts and sun-glasses for a short break out of hell) against travelling to Turkey, given the ongoing demonstrations there.
It is dangerous indeed. And it’s not over yet. Information Minister Omran al Zohbi even condemned Erdogan’s approach against whom he sweetly defines as “peaceful protesters” (whereas he could not be moved by his own protesters?) and he even went further saying that his tear gas use against demonstrators is illogical and reveals his detachment from reality”. Which means: he doesn’t get that Assad is right in Syria. Al Zohbi, maybe in a state of inebriation, also added “the brotherly Turkish people do not deserve this barbarity” and that “it is unjustified that Erdogan should defy his people”.
Assad’s news agencies went even to the point of claiming that the huge protests are “an expression of opposition to Erdogan’s policies in relation to the crisis in Syria.”
Actually, street protesters against Tayyp Erdogan can’t stand the Islamist grip that he is imposing: in the complex country of Kemal Ataturk, a parliamentary majority, albeit acquired three times, does not suffice to ban alcohol, to push for the headscarf, to outlaw abortion which is currently a State law, to punish public demonstrations of affection, to support Hamas terrorists and bet on the Muslim Brotherhood, and to imprison 94 journalists along with dozens of eminent military leaders.
Erdogan’s police has claimed a thousand wounded in two days, although Amnesty asserted that two people died. Now, that Erdogan gets some blows is by all means good. However, the scene of howling Syrians snapping at him is frankly not funny.