Turkish PM calls for UNSC to convene on Egypt, accuses West of hypocrisy
15 August 2013 / TODAYSZAMAN.COM, İSTANBUL
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday called for the UN Security Council to convene quickly and take action after what he described as a “massacre” in Egypt.
"Those who remain silent in the face of this massacre are as guilty as those who carried it out. The UN Security Council must convene quickly," Erdoğan told a news conference before his departure from Ankara Esenboğa Airport for Turkmenistan on Thursday morning.
Erdoğan criticized the stance of the West on Egypt, noting that Western powers have avoided calling the military intervention in Egypt a coup. “During our telephone conversations, they don't deny that a coup has been staged in Egypt but when talking to the public they speak differently,” he said.
Continuing his strong rhetoric against the West's stance on Egypt, Erdoğan stated that in order to pass what he called the “democracy test,” the West should understand that Egyptians are asking for their democratic rights.
“If Western countries fail in taking sincere steps, the world will start to question democracy. Staging a coup to save democracy is nothing but [using democracy as] an excuse. [According to the West] the army staged a coup to save democracy in Egypt. This shows the hypocrisy of the West,” the prime minister said.
Erdoğan claimed that there was an embargo against Egypt during Mohammed Morsi's one-year presidential period by the Western countries and also by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “They have done the same in Palestine too. We do not forget what has happened in Palestine. There are traps staged in the Muslim world and they're a threat to Turkey too. A strong Turkey is not wanted,” he added.
After calling on the UN Security Council to convene on Egypt, the Turkish prime minister said: “I am telling the Western countries: You've kept quiet on Palestine, on Gaza, and are keeping quiet on Egypt. After this moment, how are you going to be able to talk about democracy or human rights? How are you going to talk about humanistic values while people are killed in front of your eyes?”
Erdoğan later slammed the Western media for calling Wednesday's massacre, “an operation” by the interim government of Egypt. “Considering their live coverage of the [Gezi Park] incidents in Turkey, how many more people have to get killed [in Egypt] for international media to see the truth?” he asked.
Speaking on the day of Wednesday's massacre, Erdoğan stated that the international community's failure to criticize the coup encouraged the Egyptian authorities to carry out Wednesday's violent crackdown, adding that Egypt's administration is responsible for the violent deaths that have occurred in the country since June 30.
“We harshly condemn the Egyptian government for using violence against peaceful demonstrations. Opening fire on civilians who are not engaged in any violent action and targeting them with snipers constitute serious crimes,” said Erdoğan.
Turkish President Abdullah Gül also called the armed intervention "completely unacceptable," warning that the crisis in Egypt would have an impact on the entire Muslim world.
"Armed intervention against civilians, against people demonstrating, is completely unacceptable. I fear Egypt will be dragged into chaos. This is a dead end," Gül told reporters in the Turkish capital, Ankara.
Gül warned that Egypt's fate could be the same as Syria's, recalling that the Syrian crisis also began when security forces fired on peaceful civilian protesters. “Army intervention against civilians brings events to this point,” he said.
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however i didn't get what you meant by the army being a horrible place when you served? do you mean the fact you eat crap there, and the rough life being in service or you r referring to sth else?
