Let them into the EU! From KurdishMedia.com, with thanks to Kemaste:
London (Kurdish.Media.com) 27 November 2004: Turkish police killed a 12-year-old Kurdish boy and his father in “execution style” in front of their house in Kiziltepe last Saturday, says the Human Rights Association of Turkey (HRA).The police, it appears, then planted weapons on their bodies to portray the father and son as “terrorists who were killed in an armed clash with security forces” – a Turkish cliché.
Ugur Kaymaz, 12, and his father Ahmet Kaymaz, 30, both were civilians, concluded Turkey’s leading human rights watchdog in a report released after a fact-finding mission to Kiziltepe (Qosere in Kurdish).
“There is little likelihood that [the father and son] used weapons, the incident may be an execution and security forces killed them either mistakenly or intentionally.”
The official autopsy report, seen by the delegation, found 13 bullets in little boy’s body and eight in his father’s. All but four had been fired from a distance less than half a meter. All came from the same side, leaving out any possibility of a “shoot-out.”
People never believed the official line about the November 20 killing of the fifth-grade elementary school student and his 30-year-old father, a truck driver. It caused uproar in Kiziltepe, and led to mass protests.
On Thursday, thousands of Kurds took to street to condemn what they called “child-killers,” and Mardin Governor Temel Koçaklar, who, in a usual official statement tried to cover up the murder.
Said Cemal Veske, head of the Democratic People’s Party in Mardin: “This is an outright execution. How can a 12-year-old child be terrorist?”
GOVERNOR
Mardin Governor Temel Koçaklar released two statements through the official Turkish news agency, Anatolia, the next day. They were inconsistent, which was underlined by the Birgun newspaper.
In the first statement on Sunday, the Turkish governor said that “terrorists” attacked the Kiziltepe gendarmerie headquarters, and soldiers responded by killing two “terrorists” and wounded one.
A short while later, he issued a second statement, saying the incident had taken place that in a house “belonged to a man who had earlier been convicted for membership” to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK (now known as Kongra-Gel).
Heartless monsters, that's all I can say.
To the general and seemingly rhetorical question "How can a 12-year-old child be a terrorist" the correct answer is: Oh, he most certainly can, if he has been brainwashed to be a martyr for Islam. Or if he has been tricked or inveigled into behaving in such a way, that those who are threatened may think he is a terrorist. Within the last few days, two members of the Israeli Golani Brigade were hailed as heroes for holding their fire when a ten-year-old Arab ("Palestinian" for those who still want to play this little game, even though the Inventor of His People is now dead) ran toward them -- he had been bribed to do so by some of his Hamassian elders, no doubt delighted to sacrifice him for the greater Good -- what Good exactly is that again? Destroying Israel? Ah, yes, and then Paradise shall once again reign throughout dar al-Islam, and we will seize their prosperous lands (ask us five years later just what we will soon make of those "prosperous lands" whose prosperity depended entirely on the intelligence and industry of its inhabitants, and which will sink into ruin and desolation if the Arabs -- "Palestinians" -- manage to take over).
This deliberate and murderous use of children, which goes beyond the wildest fantasies about the use of child labor in Dickensian times, in the dark satanic mills of Leicester or Lancaster, or for that matter of Lawrence and Lowell in the novanglian, version, needs to be discussed. The Israelis suffer from it. The Americans have had to endure it, on a smaller scale, in Iraq -- but no longer trust those smiling children to whom they once handed out candy and looked forward (no more!) to helping "rebuild their country" for "democracy."
But in this particular case, it can be said that Turkish standards of behavior -- not the original soldier, but the studied attempt to "sand over" (the word "insabbiare" being used for the decades of political scandal in Italy, where Andreotti and a hundred others would make sure that something was carefully "insabbiato" and that no magistrates would take a walk on that particular beach)-- are on display.
One more reason not to admit Turkey to the E.U., as if there were not already 6,200 reasons -- the approximate number of verses in the Qur'an.
Children were always used in order to clear the minefields and the women followed in order to cut up the wounded enemy soldiers. That goes back to the British in Afgahisttan and the Iran/Iraq war and now in Israel... That's their culture!
And there is talk about allowing turkey into the EU, A country who condems the Israeli military for the killing of a 13 year old palestinian girl on every page ,but refuses to even acknowledge the execution style murder of a 12 year old boy and his father. A country whose parliament members claim that the U.S. is commiting genocide in Fallujah and even say that America may have even used the Atomic bomb on the city.
To all those in the EU, or have a relative there, or a business interest there, pay attention to those Turks. This is the 'culture' that you will be importing into the EU. Think long and hard on this, the security of your continent is at stake. If Europe will not stand, then nothing will stand. Make a choice EU! This BTW, is from a concerned Canadian.