Is this the future of Europe once Turkey is allowed to join the "elite" club? From Iran Focus:
London, Nov. 27 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will travel on Wednesday to Turkey, a country that once expelled him for his involvement in terrorism when he was the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to Ankara.Mottaki, 52, has been accused of involvement in a series of terrorist attacks in Turkey in the late 1980s, according to Iranian exiles and defectors from the theocratic regime.
Turkish authorities had asked him to leave the country in 1989, when he was Iran’s ambassador in Ankara, after his role in several terrorist incidents in Turkey became known.
Abolhassan Mojtahedzadeh, chairman of the Brussels-based Association of Victims of the Iranian Regime’s Terrorism, said his group was consulting Turkish lawyers to find legal avenues to have Mottaki arrested in Turkey.
Mojtahedzadeh himself was abducted in Istanbul in 1988 and taken to the Iranian consulate, where he was tortured. Several days later, Turkish police miraculously found him in the boot of an official Iranian embassy vehicle only a few kilometres from the Iranian border, as Tehran’s diplomats were trying to smuggle him to Iran.
According to Simon Bailey of the London-based Gulf Intelligence Monitor, Ankara’s decision to host Mottaki will not help the government’s image as it tries to prove its democratic credentials to be admitted to the European Union.
“Ankara has been taking a very lenient approach to Iran’s excesses”, Bailey said. “Turkish police arrested an Iranian man, Masoud Amiri, in Istanbul back in July, because there was an international arrest warrant for him over his role in the bombing of the Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires in 1994. But when Iran made some threatening gestures, the Turks let him go”.
Mottaki is a former Deputy Foreign Minister and served as Iran’s ambassador to Japan.
As a radical Islamist in his student days in India’s Bangalore University, Mottaki was a fervent supporter of Ayatollah Khomeini. He returned to Iran during the revolution and joined the ranks of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) soon after the fall of the Shah’s regime in 1979. After taking part in the bloody campaign against Kurdish dissidents, Mottaki moved to the Foreign Ministry, where for some time he was the IRGC liaison officer.
Mottaki was appointed Iran’s ambassador to Turkey in 1985 and it was during his tenure in Ankara that the Revolutionary Guard-turned-diplomat became involved in a number of terror attacks and assassinations of dissidents, according to Iranian opposition figures and defectors. In the 1980s and the early 1990s, at least 50 Iranian dissidents were kidnapped or assassinated in Turkey by Iranian secret agents often working closely with diplomats from Iran’s embassy and consulates.
What an upstanding fine fellow Iran has as its foreign minister Mottaki. Why is a country allowed to have these snakes representing them outside their country ?
But then we have Saudi Crown Prince Turki.
Entry of Turkey will be Europe's final demise.
However as they say 'T'is many a slip 'twixt cup and the lip' and Erdogan is exposing himself admirably as a fundamentalist Muzzie - even the Turkish military are eying him with suspicion.
As jihadis all over Europe ramp up their activities even the most foolish of Western governments won't be able to ignore them much longer. There will probably be a 'present' for Infidels at Christmas which won't be from Santa Claus.
Note Angela Merkel wants 'warmer relations ' with
U.S. - this canny lady would rather get into bed with Uncle Sam than an impotent Jack Chirac.
Those who despair of Europe should read the increased support and election of right wing governments taking place. Sure the process is slow and doesn't happen overnight but look at it
like a cure for dandruff. Once you've got rid of
that itchy, flaky skin , you can have a clean, healthy scalp again...
Hoope your optimism has legs Morgane, but I fear for Europe and hate to see it wither and die.
simon bailey of the Gulf Intelligence Monitor seems rather short on -- intelligence. He seems to think that helping Mottaki "will not help the government's image" [Turkey's image] as it tries to get into the EU. The EU is already so corrupt and dhimmified that I'm not sure that they care about Turkey's image.
Then Morgane looks hopefully toward "right wing govts" in Europe. But after all, how different is the "right" from "left" when things get serious. What has to be done is to work outside of party politics, to organize non-partisan movements, to educate the public, and NEVER to trust a govt, whether "right" or "left."