By STUART WINER, Times of Israel
Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Besir Atalay accused the “Jewish Diaspora” and other foreign agents of orchestrating recent unrest that has rocked Istanbul and other cities.
Atalay made the comments during a visit to the Central Anatolian province of K?r?kkale on Monday.
“There are some circles that are jealous of Turkey’s growth,” Atalay said, according to a report from the Hurriyet Daily News. “They are all uniting, on one side the Jewish Diaspora. You saw the foreign media’s attitude during the Gezi Park incidents; they bought it and started broadcasting immediately, without doing an evaluation of the [case].”
The demonstrations began in late May after police used tear gas and water cannon to smash a sit-in protest in Istanbul’s Taksim Square against the removal of the adjacent Gezi public park to make way for a mall and reconstructed army barracks.
The public response quickly swelled into a tide of protests against the government across Turkey, though focused in Istanbul, that continued throughout June with violent clashes between demonstrators and riot police that killed three campaigners and one police officer.
According to Hurriyet, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed several times that an “interest rate lobby” along with world media were responsible for the spread of the riots.
A number of Turkish commentators and lower-level officials have accused Jewish groups and others of conspiring to engineer the protests and fell Erdogan.
The president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Ronald Lauder slammed Atalay over his comments and demanded he apologize.
I don’t understand what you are trying to say. Can you find another way to write that ? Please explain your point.
Israel does NOT border with Turkey!!!
while this comment doesn’t make me believe another holocaust is eminent, there is some validity to the opinion that every Jew should dual citizenship. If history has told us anything, it’s that persecution can come again, and we might need a place to run to.
So is others. One group is not exclusive. I never hear a peep from Native Indians.
The Holocaust can happen again….let’s open our eyes! All over the world the upturn in Jewish hatred and violence is evident
Are you kidding or what???…
perhaps he had a real reason for saying that? maybe that’s what he thinks? ok, so the jews are blame alot. a whole lot. but that doesn’t make what he said a comment that had no base. who knows exactly what he was thinkung?
“When in doubt” is wrong. They blame the Jews even when they know for certain otherwise.
ok next time you leave a wounded half dead turk on the israeli border will just leave him to die instead of taling him to a isreali hospital and saving his life
Focus on there matching scarfs – I love that color!