Bloodthirsty Liberal

Not kidding.

If you don’t digest soil well, just skim on by.

[Via Steyn]

A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in southeast Turkey in a gruesome honour killing just because she reportedly befriended boys, the Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.

Acting on a tip-off, police discovered Medine Memi’s body in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre-deep hole in a chicken pen outside her house in Kahta town, Adiyaman province, 40 days after she went missing, the agency said.

A subsequent post mortem revealed that she had a significant amount of soil in her lungs and stomach, meaning that she was buried alive, foresic experts told the agency.

“The autopsy result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl — who had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood — was alive and fully conscious when she was buried,” one anonymous expert said.

Medine’s father and grandfather have been formally arrested and jailed pending trial over her killing, the agency said.

The father is reported to have said in his testimony that the family was unhappy she had male friends.

“Acting on a tip”—forty days after she was murdered. Are pay phones that rare in Turkey that no one could have dropped a dime any sooner?

Why didn’t they do this poor girl a favor and abort her before she was born? Wouldn’t that have been more humane than burying her alive? What say you, NOW?

I’m always impressed by how much more civilized and sophisticated other parts of the world are as, compared to us. Take the Turks, for example. Please.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Did Turkey join the EU? I wonder if it is usual for newscasters across the EU to work in blackface?

- Aggie

London, Prague, Istanbul: where can I buy the “America Sucks ‘09″ t-shirt?

I’ve been meaning to list all the places where President Obama has dumped on our country, and Gateway Pundit adds another one. When I get around to it, it will be a labor of love, but at the rate he’s going, quite a labor:

Barack Obama’s nonstop Bush-bashing America-stomping tour of Europe continued in Turkey today.

Never have we seen a president on his first trip abroad be so disrespectful to his country or its history- ever.

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Today in Turkey, after bashing the US for a week, Obama promised a “new chapter in America” with Muslims.

Obviously, the fact that America just liberated 50,000,000 Muslims from two of the most brutal regimes in history was not enough for Barack.

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Obama rejected the stereotype that Americans are selfish and crass. “I’m here to tell you that’s not the country I know and not the country I love,” the president said.

“America, like every other nation, has made mistakes and has its flaws, but for more than two centuries it has strived” to seek a more perfect union.

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Obama cautioned that while he had great differences with Bush over issues such as Iraq and climate change, it takes time to change a nation as big as the United States.

That’s a lie, right there: he changed us from a capitalist economy to a socialist welfare state in less than sixty days.

Besides, we have every right to be selfish and crass: every piece of blighted turf on which he’s spewed his anti-American bile holds the bones of American servicemen who died that other nations might live free. If that doesn’t earn us the right to wear baggy shorts and comfortable shoes while touring their poxy shrines and museums, I don’t know what does.

If we are, as I believe, the best nation on earth, why is he always discussing our faults?

But no, Obama has to apologize for America—for ending WWII (”As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act.”), for racism (”I say this as the president of a country that not very long ago made it hard for somebody who looks like me to vote, much less be president of the United States.”), for liberating oppressed people in the Muslim world (”I know that the trust that binds the United States and Turkey has been strained, and I know that strain is shared in many places where the Muslim faith is practiced.”), getting the 9/11 masterminds to talk (”[W]e recently ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. That’s why we prohibited — without exception or equivocation — the use of torture.”), and, did I mention racism? (”Our country still struggles with the legacies of slavery and segregation, the past treatment of Native Americans.”)

This in addition to apologizing for ruining the economy, the environment, and anything else we might have turned to s**t.

Way back in the primaries, when he talked this sort of nonsense, I declared that Obama was running like someone who didn’t want to win, who had no intention of winning. I don’t which of us was more surprised that he actually did.

But as much contempt as he has for this country is nothing compared to the contempt I have for him for speaking this was on foreign soil. You’re our president, not theirs. You might at least be on our side.

UPDATE:
Michelle concurs:

Now you know: Team Obama’s world tour wasn’t about defending America and advancing our best interests. It was about raising President Obama’s approval numbers among the Euroweenies.

If a promise is broken in the forest but no one is around to hear it, was the promise ever made? Or something like that

Last year, in one of the most disgusting outbursts of left-wing anti-Semitism that I have witnessed as an adult in this country, the civilized world attacked Abraham Foxman of the ADL because he refused to directly say that the genocide against the Armenians at the hands of the Turks was a genocide. He described the actions in ways that indicated it was a genocide, but wouldn’t call it that because of the complex relationships between Israel and Turkey. All sorts of smug, snotty, shitty-little-people, especially in the Northeast, decided to go after Foxman and the ADL. No other group was put on the defensive or even asked to label the genocide, just the ADL. It was something that I will carry to my grave, the conversations and the hateful attitudes directed against him. I will never, ever forget it and my behavior in terms of financial giving and voting and socializing has been permanently altered. I want to guarantee that that little outburst of Jew hatred is expensive well into the future. Need to vote a tax increase to repair a road? Call CAIR.

Funny thing. Our fearless leader, who has less to lose than Abraham Foxman, also can’t call the Armenian genocide a genocide. What a little wimp. And how cynical we are. I bet that we won’t hear a peep out of the local anti-racism groups, or the Congress, or the NY Times or NPR.

Candidate Obama, President Obama, and the Armenian Genocide

April 06, 2009 6:46 PM

Armenian American activists today said that President Obama’s refusal to pushing Turkey to recognize its genocide against Armenians — or to even used the “g” word — fell “far short of the clear promise he made as a candidate that he would, as President, fully and unequivocally recognize this crime against humanity.”

Behind the scenes, the White House says, the president was urging Turkish and Armenian leaders to resolve this issue as part of the normalization of relations the two countries are negotiating.

This evening in Istanbul, President Obama met at a reception with the Foreign Ministers of Armenia, Turkey and Switzerland on the margins of the Alliance of Civilizations, which is meeting here. This photo of the meetings was provided by the White House:

An administration source tells ABC News that in his meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian, Swiss Foreign Minister and mediator Micheline Calmy-Rey, Turkish undersecretary of the foreign ministry Ertugul Apakan, and Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, President Obama took the opportunity to congratulate them on the progress on the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia, and also to press them to take this to the conclusion.

The tentative agreement between the two countries includes a historical commission which would make a conclusion about just what happened in the early part of the last century, when hundreds of thousands of Armenians were killed by Turks.

As a senator, and then as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama often talked about how bold he was to call the slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire just what it was: a genocide.

“America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides,” he said. “I intend to be that President.”

What a liar he is.

- Aggie

Let’s start with the failed attempt at a mall in Haifa

Police sappers neutralized an explosive device in the parking lot outside Haifa’s Lev Hamifratz shopping mall Saturday evening.

Police closed the mall to the public following discovery of the device, causing traffic delays in the area.

Mall security personnel located the car after a small explosion was heard. They then summoned the police sappers, who found an additional explosive device inside a bag in the car’s trunk and neutralized it.

The vehicle was found to belong to a female resident of Jerusalem, although the motives for storing the explosive device are still unknown.

What were the motives? Hard to say.

On to Turkey

Ankara’s governor says mall attack carried out by suicide bomber
By Reuters

A suicide bomber carried out the attack which killed six people in a crowded shopping mall Turkey’s capital on Tuesday, and the type of explosives used point to Kurdish separatists, Ankara’s governor said on Wednesday.

“The examinations showed the body parts belong to Guven Akkus, a man born in Sivas [Turkey] in 1979,” Kemal Onal told reporters after an emergency government meeting called following the attack, the worst in the capital in at least a decade.

A security source, who declined to be named, told Reuters all eyes were on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - which is waging an armed struggle against the Turkish state for greater Kurdish rights - saying the bombing bore the hallmarks of the outlawed guerrilla movement.

“It is understood the incident was caused by the explosion of a plastic [explosives]bomb on this person’s body and the incident’s style matches the methods of the separatist organization,” the governor said.

At least they have a clue.

And, finally, the mall attack in Tel Aviv

An explosion in the food court of Tel Aviv’s landmark Azrieli Center sent shoppers into a panic and led to the partial evacuation of the buildings on Friday morning.

Initial investigations show the conflagration occured when a gas canister exploded inside the restaurant Big Shwarma around 10 A.M. No one was hurt, but some property was damaged.

Eight fire engines and dozens of Magen David Adom ambulances rushed to the scene, fearing multiple casualties.

Eyewitnesses reported smoke billowing from the restaurant and frightened shoppers screaming that a plane had crashed into the building.

Peace is exploding all over the world.

- Aggie

They are so full of it

A Turkish prosecutor’s office says it has launched a probe into whether Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip counts as genocide, torture and crimes against humanity.

The Ankara chief prosecutor’s office said Friday that the investigation was opened after an Islamic human rights organization filed an official complaint against Israeli leaders, including the president, prime minister and foreign minister.

The prosecutor’s office said the rights organization has also asked for the Israeli officials be detained if they step foot in Turkey.

Turkish prosecutors are required to open investigation any time an official complaint is filed. Turkish laws allow trials against people accused of genocide and other crimes against humanity committed in other countries.

I will be sure never to step foot in Turkey. Thanks for the reminder.

- Aggie

This is Turkey

Ever since she was a kid, Sheila wanted to be married in Istanbul’s famous Neveh Shalom Synagogue.
Supporters of the ruling…

Supporters of the ruling Justice and Development Party wave Turkish flags outside the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul.
Photo: AP

“It’s a very beautiful place,” the 26-year-old told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. “Growing up in Istanbul, all the girls want to to have their weddings there.”

But Sheila, who made aliya three years ago and lives in Jerusalem, said that given the dramatic increase in anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment in Turkey following Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip last month, her dream wedding is turning into something of a nightmare.

“I was engaged three months ago,” said Sheila, who asked that her last name not be published out of fear for her family’s safety, all of whom still live in the Turkish metropolis. “My fiance is Israeli, and his family no longer wants to go there for the wedding. On top of that, when my mother goes to the ministry offices [in Istanbul] to try and get the marriage forms filled out, they won’t help her. They won’t help her because she’s Jewish.”

Describing a “climate of fear” in her former hometown, the Turkish immigrant said she will most likely cancel her wedding plans.

“Frankly, I’m scared to have my wedding there now,” she said. “On the one hand, yeah, it’s my dream, but on the other hand, the situation there has simply gotten out of control.”

“Every day it gets worse,” Sheila continued. “My parents told me that a shopkeeper near one of the Jewish neighborhoods, where my grandparents live, put a sign in the window of his store that said, ‘No Jews allowed, but dogs are welcome.’

“Even when my parents go to buy a phone card to call me, they get harassed by the shopkeepers the minute they say they’re trying to make a call to Israel.”

Sheila also said that during the war, billboards went up around town decrying the Israeli “crimes” in Gaza, and the government made students in every Turkish school stand for a moment of silence in solidarity with the children of Gaza.

“They even had to do it at the Jewish school I went to as a kid,” Sheila said. “I can only imagine how uncomfortable the students must have felt.”

More at the link.

- Aggie

At least 8 killed in two separate blasts update: 15 dead

This is a trick that terrorists use again and again. There is a primary blast. People rush in to help. Then comes the bigger explosion. Very often the second explosion is meant to murder medics, nurses, and physicians, the people who come to save lives.

Eight people were killed and up to 30 were wounded in two bomb blasts in a busy shopping district in Istanbul, NTV news and medical officials said.

TV showed ambulances carrying badly wounded people to hospital after the explosions at two different sites in the Gungoren district of Turkey’s biggest city.

The victims were killed by the second explosion after a small explosion in a telephone kiosk brought people out onto the street, the TV said.

“We received nearly 30 very heavily wounded people,” said Abdullah Toker, a manager at Gungoren Kolon Hospital.

Now, nobody knows if it was Leftists, Islamists or Kurdish separatists. The technique works in all situations, doesn’t it? Works in India, works in Israel, works in Turkey or Iraq or London or New York. We can decide whether we want to “talk” with them or we want to fight them. It is our choice.

- Aggie

In Turkey you can swat your sweetie, pound your pumpkin, howitzer your honey—as long as you’re an MP:

After his wife’s filing of a legal complaint in 2006, the former AKP MP Halil Urun could not be prosecuted due to his parliamentary immunity. When he failed to get re-elected in July 22, 2007 elections, he was charged for beating and intentionally injuring his wife of 40 years.

The Ankara 2nd district court that heard the case first sentenced him with six months prison term – the minimum time allowed by law, followed by the judge’s decision to apply article 231 of the Turkish Penal Code, generally known as the “hidden amnesty”. Former MP will not serve any time at all and will be on probation instead, for five years. If he does not repeat the crime during that time, he will be considered not prosecuted for any crime at all.

Forty years! You’d think he’d have rotator cuff damage or need Tommy John surgery after forty years of taking a shillelagh to his Sheila.

A pity he couldn’t spend just one night in one of the prisons for which the Turks are so renowned.

Heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures shut down schools, paralyzed traffic and grounded airplanes in Greece and Turkey on Monday.

Athens was covered in several centimeters of snow and the outskirts were cut off due to heavy snow and ice on the roads following two days of snowfall.

The Acropolis was also covered by a layer of snow, basking in the morning sunshine as temperatures hovered around freezing.

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“Like Siberia,” read the headline in Turkey’s Takvim newspaper, above pictures of snow ploughs, heavily wrapped-up pedestrians and a grounded airplane at Istanbul airplane.