If only Israelis and Armenians were Muslim

• Published date: 26 May 2021
• Date: 26 May 2021
• Author: Giulio Meotti
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

It is the bombings of Erdogan that do not make news and noise. The United Nations, which immediately gathered on Gaza, did not say a word about the Turkish-Azerbaijani aggression against the Armenians and the Kurds.

The Islamic world, with Erdogan in the lead, was able to turn Covid restrictions on the Damascus Gate into an "Israeli aggression", while the same Turkish-backed forces wiped out churches, monasteries, cathedrals, cemeteries and crosses from the Armenian territory.

Then there are the Kurds, who have been our most faithful allies in the war against ISIS ... In the past month, Turkey has been engaged in a military attack on Iraqi Kurdistan. They used F-16s, F-4 Terminators and other hi-tech weapons to target Kurdish positions in northern Iraq. Families fled their homes in terror. Their livelihoods were destroyed. It is Turkey's 40-year war that led to the deaths of some 20,000 Kurdish civilians and the destruction of at least 2,500 Kurdish villages. Hundreds of Kurdish villagers have been forced to flee to the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan in recent days due to Turkish bombing and have been replaced by jihadists imported from Syria, the Star says.

A farmer from Barwari Bala, in the mountainous province of Duhok, on the border with Turkey, revealed to the Morning Star that he had abandoned his land and his home due to the Turkish bombing: "...been bombed. Most of us are gone, there is nothing for us. Our future is destroyed and our homes are given to ISIS. We are civilians: peasants, children. Why do they do it? The world does nothing to help us because we are Kurds. Everyone wants to kill us ".

More than 2,000 Islamist mercenaries have been recruited by Erdogan to support the Turkish military operation against the Kurds. In October, Cemil Bayik, president of the Union of Kurdistan Communities (KCK), reported that Islamist mercenaries were being trained in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeastern Sirnak province. This is exactly what happened against Armenia, where arrested Islamist mercenaries said they were paid for every Armenian killed.

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