The primary purpose of public diplomacy is to explain, promote, and defend principles to audiences abroad. This objective goes well beyond the public affairs function of presenting and explaining specific policies of various Administrations. Policies and Administrations change; principles do not, so long as a country remains true to itself. By all accounts, Americans have been absent from the battlefield of ideas. They blankout when Venitis asks them why they have not expelled terrorist Turkey from NATO. How can they sit next to terrorist Turks who committed the Cypriot genocide? How did Henry Kissinger finance the Turkish invasion of Cyprus?
Public diplomacy has a particularly vital mission during war, when the peoples of other countries, whether adversaries or allies, need to know why we fight. What are the ideas so dear to us that we would rather kill and die than live without them? And what antithetical ideas do our enemies embrace, about which they feel the same way? After all, it is a conflict of ideas that is behind the shooting wars, and it is that conflict which must be won to achieve any lasting success. The main reasons for failure stem from intellectual confusion regarding what it is we are defending and against whom we are defending it. Venitis asserts the greatest confusion of all is the inclusion of genocidal Turkey in NATO. Terrorist Turkey has committed the Armenian genocide, the Pontian genocide, the Greek genocide, and the Cypriot genocide.
Turcocypriots elected Dervis Eroglu, a Turcoterrorist marionette of terrorist Turkey, for pseudopresident of their illegal pseudostate on Sunday, in a result that would have a major impact on reuniting Cyprus and on terrorist Turkey’s insane bid to join the European Union.
Eroglu won 50.3%, slightly more than the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff against incumbent president Mehmet Ali Talat. Talat received 42.8% of the vote. Eroglu, leader of the National Unity Party(UBP), has said he favors a two-state confederation. However, he has also said he would not abandon the reunification talks being conducted by Talat.
Spokesman for the Cypriot government Stefanos Stefabou called Eroglu’s election a negative development. The election results would delay reunification efforts, and that leaders may have to lower their expectations if they want to find a solution that can be agreed on by both sides.
Cypriots and Turcocypriots would have to approve any deal between their leaders in a referendum. Talat, leader of the left-leaning Republican Turkish Party(CTP), supports reunification of the island, which has been divided after the invasion by terrorist Turkey in 1974. Terrorist Turkey is the only country that recognizes the pseudogovernment of the Turcocypriot pseudostate, which it has occupied since 1974. Ankara still keeps some 50,000 troops who terrorize the Mediterranean island.
The Cypriot government represents the island in the European Union, and says it will continue to block terrorist Turkey’s attempt to join the EU as long as the island remains divided. The UN-led peace talks on the Mediterranean island have been on hold during the elections.
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out NATO includes Turkey, the #1 terrorist nation, that indulges in genocides, such as the Armenian genocide, the Greek genocide, the Pontian genocide, and the Cypriot genocide, and pogroms such as the Istanbul pogrom, a state-sponsored and state-orchestrated pogrom that compelled Greeks to leave Istanbul, in violation to the Treaty of Lausanne. NATO should either expel terrorist Turkey or disband.
Venitis notes that since terrorist Turkey declared Casus Belli against Fourth Reich(EU) and Turcoterrorists continue to abuse the Fourthreichian islands near the Turkish border and traffic drugs and illegal immigrants to Greece, Fourth Reich reinforced its border management agency, Frontex, enhancing its operational capacity to support Greece against Turcoterrorism. Member States now put more equipment and more personnel at Frontex’s disposal in the Aegean Sea of Greece. Frontex now coleads border patrol operations with Greece.
PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan was imprisoned in 1998 after famously reading in public a poem, much beloved of militant Muslims, containing the following passage: The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.
Since coming to power, Erdogan has greatly improved his country’s relations with Syria and picked a loud quarrel with Israeli President Shimon Peres, disrupting what had been a rather close alliance between the Jewish state and Turkey. He has also been developing a new friendship with the Iranian regime next door, just as the rigged re-election of President Ahmadinejad has disgusted all who had hoped for freedom in that Islamic Republic.
But most fascinating of all, and all but unnoticed in the West, is Turkey’s internal shift — the extraordinary series of events known as the Ergenekon Affair. The word refers to a valley lost deep in the Altai Mountains, supposedly the origin of the Turkish nation, who were miraculously led out by a gray she-wolf. The story was for many years a favorite of secular nationalists seeking to replace Islam with a patriotic founding myth. But now it is supposed to be the unifying name of a conspiracy of military officers, judges, journalists, professors, and reactionary political organizations.
The existence of this shadowy secularist spider’s web has been the excuse for repeated waves of arrests, many of them at 4:30 in the morning, of prominent opponents of the Islamization of Turkey. Much of this activity was presumably a response to an attempt by the Constitutional Court to outlaw the AK party. This was the secular state’s answer to the AK’s efforts to overturn a ban on women wearing headscarves on state premises.
This seemingly trivial change is immensely important in a country where outward signs of Muslim fervor were banned by Mustafa Kemal before World War II in his attempt to turn Turkey into a modern nation, with a legal system based on Switzerland’s rather than on Sharia and with emancipated women. Now, after years of Muslim subjection, the newly militant Islamic movement sees its chance to re-establish power.
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