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A leading Turkish opposition parliamentarian says that Turkey has been turned into a "fascist dictatorship" under its President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.</i></ref><ref>[https://amp2.handelsblatt.com/recep-tayyip-erdogan-birth-of-a-dictator/23540062.html Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Birth of a Dictator] von John Blau, Handelsblatt, Dec 8, 2016.</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/06/25/erdogan/ Opinion: Turkey takes a big step toward nationalist fascism] Omer Taspinar, Washington Post, June 25, 2018</ref>
A leading Turkish opposition parliamentarian says that Turkey has been turned into a "fascist dictatorship" under its President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.</i></ref><ref>[https://amp2.handelsblatt.com/recep-tayyip-erdogan-birth-of-a-dictator/23540062.html Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Birth of a Dictator] von John Blau, Handelsblatt, Dec 8, 2016.</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/06/25/erdogan/ Opinion: Turkey takes a big step toward nationalist fascism] Omer Taspinar, Washington Post, June 25, 2018</ref>
==Racism==
Erdogan exacerbates racism especially against Kurds.<ref>[https://www.dw.com/en/kurds-in-turkey-increasingly-subject-to-violent-hate-crimes/a-50940046 Kurds in Turkey increasingly subject to violent hate crimes], DW, Oct 22, 2019.
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Hate speech and racism across Turkish society provide a breeding ground for these brutal attacks, said Eren Keskin, the rights group's co-director. Attacks are rising, she said, because the state is not consistently prosecuting the perpetrators of such violence. Keskin says that the societal oppression under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development party and the rise in hate speech and violent attacks cannot be separated. "Kurds are attacked so often, women are subjected to such violence, and there is so much hatred on social media. Because they [the perpetrators] know the state is behind them. They feel so safe — they know that nothing will happen to them. Because there is no sanction by the state," the human rights expert told DW.
Yet anti-Kurdish sentiment is nothing new, she underlined. In the 1990s, the state used force against Kurds. It was more opaque then, she said — whereas now the violence is carried out in broad daylight.</i></ref><ref>[https://thelevantnews.com/en/2020/06/turkeys-racism-against-kurds-is-systematic/ Turkey's Racism Against Kurds Is Systematic] Jwan Dibo, The Levant, June 16, 2020.
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... So, Turkish racism toward Kurds is systematic because it has political, ideological and historical roots and backgrounds. This excessive racist mobilisation has made
the Turkish state always ready to threaten and attack any Kurdish attempt to liberate and obtain rights, inside and outside Turkey. On this basis, Turkey has occupied several Kurdish cities in Syria since 2018 in attempting to undermine the Kurdish Regional Self-rule Administration in Syria. Likewise, in September 2017, Turkey threatened to invade Iraqi
Kurdistan in the wake of the independence referendum. Turkey fights legitimate Kurdish aspirations everywhere even on behalf of all countries that persecute the Kurds, especially Iran.
Since 2002, the year Justice and Development Party (AKP) took over the government in Ankara, and since 2018, the year when the form of ruling shifted from parliamentary to presidential,
religion has also been used against Kurds who oppose Erdogan. Erdogan has described dozens of times his opponents of the Kurds as atheists, in reference to the supporters of Kurdistan
Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Kurdistan and the supporters of Democratic Union Party (PYD) in western Kurdistan. He ordered the imams of mosques to recite verses from the Qur’an
before the assault of Afrin and other Kurdish cities in Syria, and described his aggression as a conquest, a metaphor for historical Islamic conquests. The most potent common principle
between Erdogan’s party and its ally, the far-right National Movement Party, is hostility of Kurds and fighting their ambitions and efforts for emancipation and attaining rights regardless of formulas.</i></ref> And has expressed racism gainst others.<ref>Fehim Taştekin (@fehimtastekin) [https://twitter.com/fehimtastekin/status/1187725776180957184?s=20 Tweeted] (Oct 25, 2019):
Arabs ought to live in Idlib as it is a desert: Erdoğan – Duvar English https://t.co/YtTNRDpWmA via @duvarenglish.
* newsperplexed (@newsperplexed) [https://twitter.com/newsperplexed/status/1187745343087218689?s=20 Tweeted] (Oct 25, 2019):
@fehimtastekin @DuvarEnglish It’s hard to count on all the layers a statement like that is racist:
1. Arabs being more genetically suited to deserts instead of arid climates in Turk is racist.
2. Turkey uprooting Kurds from their homes and replace them with Arabs partly on basis of suitability is racist.</blockquote></ref>
He has unleashed a racist propaganda against the Kurds.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/opinion/erdogan-kurds-syria.html The Long Kurdish Struggle] Rosa Burc, NYTimes, Oct. 22, 2019.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s war is an ethnonationalist attack on Kurds and their aspirations.
On Oct. 12, Hevrin Khalaf, a 35-year-old Kurdish politician, was stopped at a checkpoint outside the town of Tel Abyad in northeastern Syria by Turkey-backed Syrian Arab militias.
Four days earlier, Turkey and its proxies had invaded northern Syria and destabilized the relatively peaceful region, displaced more than 100,000 people, unleashed racist propaganda against the Kurds and moved to destroy Rojava, the Kurdish experiment in democratic self-governance.
Ms. Khalaf, who was the secretary general of the Future Syria Party, played a vital role in fostering Kurdish-Arab friendship and worked for a joint future in a postwar Syria. Turkish-backed militiamen pulled Ms. Khalaf out of her car and struck her head and legs with metal objects. They grabbed her by her hair and dragged her until skin was peeled off her scalp. And then they shot her in the head, according to her autopsy report. The killers were filmed shouting insults while firing.</i></ref> And attacks.<ref>[https://kurdpress.com/en/news/1255/Erdogan%27s-anti-Kurdish-pogroms-%E2%80%93-a-call-for-international-solidarity/ Erdogan's anti-Kurdish pogroms – a call for international solidarity]
Aug 7, 2021.
<i> Last Friday afternoon, in the district of Konya in south-central Turkey, seven members of a family were murdered by anti-Kurdish racists in the neighborhood where they had lived for twenty-four years. This, alone, should illicit international condemnation of the attack and solidarity with Kurds in Turkey...
President Erdogan has pursued an increasingly oppressive approach towards expressions of Kurdishness and Kurdish self-organization, and his position has been reinforced by the vicious ethnic nationalism of the MHP, on which the AKP government has depended for support since 2015. It has been noted that no MHP bills have become law, but that is to miss the point. They have shifted the government’s frame of reference further and more firmly to the right. For Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) the Kurds provide a scapegoat on whom all troubles can be blamed. Nationalist Turks might be finding it difficult to feed their family, but they are urged to unite with the government against this enemy within. And the violence and unrest this creates itself becomes an excuse for the government to call for citizens to rally round the nation and support strong central leadership. We saw how this worked with the attacks against the HDP in the run up to the November 2015 general election. Meanwhile, attacks on Kurds in Syria and Iraq are used to distract from troubles at home and provide a focus for Turkish patriotism.</i></ref> Erdogan's anti-Semitic Obsessions has been noted for ears.<ref>"'Spawn of Israel’: Erdogan's anti-Semitic Obsessions."
''The pro-Erdogan Islamist newspaper blaming the Jews for Turkey’s mining disaster is just the tip of the iceberg: The Turkish PM’s anti-Semitism is deeply rooted and is now spreading more widely in Turkey.''
Günther JikeliKemal Silay, Haaretz,, May. 22, 2014</ref> And he has been condemned for vile anti-Semitic remarks.<ref>[https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210518-us-condemns-erdogan-anti-semitic-remarks US condemns Erdogan 'anti-Semitic' remarks], AFB, France 24, May 19, 2021.
<i>Washington (AFP). The United States on Tuesday sharply criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for what it called "anti-Semitic."</i></ref>
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