A Turkish pro-government writer recently threatened the political opposition in the country and her own neighbors with death on national TV.
On May 3, Sevda Noyan said on Ülke TV that in the event of a coup attempt, her family can kill at least fifty people, including some neighbors. She said she made a list of people to kill.
Referring to the events following the coup attempt on July 15, 2016, when many supporters of Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan took to the streets upon the president’s call to defend the government, Noyan said:
“We couldn’t do what we exactly wanted [on July 15, 2016]. We got caught unprepared.
“Do not get it wrong; get it right,” she continued. “My family alone can take down about fifty people. We are very well equipped materially and spiritually. We stand by our leader; we will never let him be thrown to the wolves in this country. Let them watch their steps. There are 3-5 [neighbors] in my gated community; my list is ready.”
The moderator of the show, Esra Elönü, supported Noyan, saying: “They should watch all their steps.”
Following the coup attempt in 2016, many people were arrested and jailed in Turkey for allegedly “helping stage the coup attempt.”
“Many of those people,” reported the Amnesty International, “are being subjected to beatings and torture, including rape, in official and unofficial detention centers in the country.
“Despite chilling images and videos of torture that have been widely broadcast across the country, the government has so far remained silent on the abuse.”
Targeting your fellow citizens, or even neighbors, is a long-held tradition in Turkey. For instance, during the 1914-1923 Christian genocide that targeted Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks in Ottoman Turkey, it was not just the Ottoman soldiers that attacked Christians.
Christians were also targeted by their own Muslim neighbors, largely in response to the jihad (an Islamic holy war) declared in 1914 in Constantinople – first by the Sultan and then the religious leader Sheikh-ul-Islam – on behalf of the Ottoman government.
“These declarations of jihad,” writes Professor Hannibal Travis, “‘incited wrath toward Christian minorities in the Ottoman lands, and … later facilitated the government’s program of Genocide against the Armenians’—and, as it happened, the Assyrians.
“The evidence is overwhelming that Turks and their Kurdish allies massacred tens, and more likely hundreds, of thousands of Assyrians in order to exterminate the Christian population; raped and enslaved hundreds, and more likely thousands, of Assyrian women in a systematic fashion; and deported the Assyrians en masse from their ancestral lands under conditions that led to famine and widespread death.”
All Christians have suffered the same fate without differentiation to race or denomination, notes Professor Travis.
“Greek men became victims of murder, torture, and starvation; Greek women suffered all this and also became slaves in Muslim households; Greek children wandered the streets as orphans ‘half-naked and begging for bread’; and millions of dollars’ worth of Greek property passed into Muslim hands.”
Turkey still aggressively denies this crime. Those who publicly acknowledge it might be prosecuted and jailed.
Since then, what has remained unchanged in Turkey is wanton violence or threats of violence against religious minorities and dissidents. During the 1934 anti-Jewish pogroms in eastern Thrace, the 1955 anti-Greek pogroms in Istanbul, the 1978 Alevi massacres in Maraş, and many other atrocities, non-Muslims were always at the receiving end of severe abuses.
This author wrote in 2017:
“The Turkish Republic, established in 1923, still has not officially recognized, has not apologized for, or made reparations for any of the crimes or wrongdoings at any time in its history.
“And never once in their history have Turkish people taken to the streets en masse in protest as the non-Muslim citizens of the country were (and still are) exposed to persecution such as pogroms, massacres, or confiscations of their properties. The Turkish state has carried out its annihilationist policies either with the active participation or the silent approval of the vast majority of the public.”
Since the founding of the state ninety-seven years ago, Turkey has allowed only two ideologies to grow in the country: Islam and Turkish nationalism. All other religions, cultures, ideas and philosophies have been violently oppressed.
And the state-sanctioned Islamic and Turkist ideologies have created a widespread culture of intolerance and violence.
In order to better understand this culture, one needs to analyze Islam’s view on the kafir, or the “unbeliever.”
Dr. Bill Warner, the founding President of the Center for the Study of Political Islam International (CSPII), explains:
“The language of Islam is dualistic. There is a division of humanity into believer and kafir (unbeliever). Humanity is divided into those who believe Mohammed is the prophet of Allah and those who do not.
“A Muslim is never the true friend of a Kafir. Kafirs can be enslaved, raped, beheaded, plotted against, terrorized, and humiliated. A Kafir is not a full human.
“When you read the complete Islamic doctrine of Koran, Sira (the biography of Mohammed), and the Hadith (the traditions of Mohammed), you will find that Islam is fixated on the Kafir. Over half of the Koran is about the Kafir, not Muslims. It is the stated purpose of the Islamic textual doctrine to annihilate every Kafir by conversion, subjugation or death. Jihad can be waged against the Kafir.”
For decades, the initial target of many Muslims in Turkey was Christians, Jews, Yazidis and other non-Muslims.
Now that there are almost no Christians or Jews left in the country, many Turks are largely targeting their fellow Muslims for having differing political opinions.
And while writers and TV presenters proudly declare on national TV that they are looking forward to killing their own neighbors, many innocent, peace-loving journalists are lingering in jails. This appears to be one of the greatest shames of Turkey.
Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist and political analyst formerly based in Ankara.
CogitoErgoSum says
Muhammad told us that most of the people in Hell are women – and most of those women must surely be Muslim women.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, women like this are the only one’s “Allah” approves of…
Rufolino says
Her attitudes and her hatreds are coming to peaceful neighbourhoods all over the West, soon.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Rufolino.
william carr says
I am sure the Nazi Germans felt the same about their non Nazi neighbours which is why most people became Nazis!
Giacomo Latta says
One hadith says that a good muslim shall marry ”seventy-two wives, two of them from the wide-eyed maidens of Paradise and seventy of them his inheritance from the People of Hellfire.” Well, if these 70 women are from Hellfire they must have at least one sin held against them, although it can’t be the sin of looking ugly, unless muslim males aren’t picky.
elee says
It cannot be easy for a Turk to write these truths. These truths also speak of centuries of failures by the First World. So now: WHY? Why have we wasted so many opportunities to intervene? Why have we had the means but not the inclination?
Avenger says
The West saw Turkey back then as a great opportunity to purchase their tobacco, cotton and oil. The Christians were Eastern Orthodox and Christians in the West could care less about their fate. So as 2,500,000 Christians were being exterminated trade deals were being signed.
gravenimage says
This is, of course untrue. The West did try to protect the interests of minority Christians throughout the latter 19th century. The Ottoman Empire unsurprisingly ignored every treaty it ever signed.
But then, note that Avenger seldom says anything critical about Islam–he just slams the West all the time.
LB says
Avenger is right. There has been nothing but indifference at best and animosity at worst from Western Catholic towards Eastern Orthodox Christians since their divide. The Fourth Crusade should be proof enough about that.
As if shattering the Byzantine Empire wasn’t enough, the West even sold cannons to Ottomans and trained their soldiers who would eventually use them to conquer Constantinople and the entire Balkans as well, completely oblivious to the fact that muslim Turks won’t stop at just enslaving the Orthodox Christians. And they remained enslaved for centuries, enduring every unspeakable horrors imaginable without so much as a peep from their Western “brothers”.
As for the West trying to help, I have no knowledge of that fact. The Ottoman Empire was first shaken by the First and Second Serbian uprisings throughout 19th century which served to further ignite resistance from Greeks and Bulgarians, eventually resulting in completely throwing Ottomans out of Balkans at the start of 20th century. The West may have had arms dealings with the native resistance, but that’s about all the help they got. To my knowledge, not a single Catholic soldier died fighting for the Orthodox liberation.
Ottomans losing Balkans would later serve them as a “lesson” about what happens when you leave too much of the native populace alive, and so began the muslim Turk genocide of Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and other Orthodox Christians in Anatolia. And yet again, the Western Catholics remained silent and watched it happen. Some may have spoken about it, but none did anything to prevent it.
I could give you more proof which describes the events following WWI, WWII and post-WWII, but this post is long enough as it is and I doubt many people are interested in 20th century Balkans anyways.
gravenimage says
Both Eastern and Western Christendom have checkered histories where it comes to Islam, unfortunately.
The Treaty of Paris at the end of the Crimean war instituted many safeguards for Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire–but these were soon ignored by the Pashas.
gravenimage says
Yes, elee–kudos to Uzay Bulut for speaking the truth.
Michael Copeland says
As Ms Bulut expressed elsewhere:
“…their systematic criminalization of free speech;
their suppression of inquiry and creativity;
and their unending intertribal fights —
are the reasons their people have remained in the seventh century.”
DHazard says
The country that really tried to be a democracy and a theocracy at the same time but failed. It was working for a while until a minority of Muslims changed the whole trajectory towards freedom and redirected it toward Shariah. So here we are with a minority of angry, Salafist Muslims running the whole show. It can happen anywhere there are people.
RichardL says
I would also be very angry at the world if I looked like this…
GreekEmpress says
The comments of Sevda Noyan do not surprise me.
This mindset led to the genocide of Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrian Christians. In Malatya, where one of my Armenian ancestors lived, 7500 Armenians were massacred in 1895-1896. In the spring of 1915 there were about 3000 Armenians in Malatya, and they were rounded up and sent on the death marches. Very few were spared. Hrant Dink was also from Malatya. He, like my ancestor, were murdered by the Turks.
Now that the Christians have been almost totally eradicated, they’ll kill each other.
On another note, Turkish soldiers have encroached on Greek land near the border. These provocations and violations will only continue, until somebody or something puts a stop to it.
gravenimage says
All grimly true, GreekEmpress.
black adder says
Fake news…
gravenimage says
How so?
gravenimage says
Turkey: Killing your own neighbors
On May 3, Sevda Noyan said on Ülke TV that in the event of a coup attempt, her family can kill at least fifty people, including some neighbors. She said she made a list of people to kill.
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How insane *is this*? Like most of us, I keep lists of chores and errands to accomplish, and long-term goals I want to achieve. These *do not* include lists of neighbors I want to murder.
God, I hate Islam.
ELEE says
+1
elee says
One of the occasions I referred to above was the events of 1919-1922. Given that precedent, I doubt today’s Greeks hold a lot of hope for western support on their borders. Sevda Noyan’s politics survive because they work for Turkey.
mortimer says
Uzay Bulut is a very brave man. Writers like him can change public opinion and educate people about the genocidal ideation that is lurking not far under the surface of Islam.
When Muslims run out of kafirs to persecute, they persecute Muslims of a different sect or political opinion.
The political ideology of Islam requires a victim while pretending itself to be a victim. This is the source of Islam’s moral blindness. Muslim supremacists cannot see themselves in the mirror.
gravenimage says
One small point, Mortimer: Uzay Bulut is actually a woman.
Quazgaa says
Been reading her for a long time now. Her articles are so rational and historically accurate, and the way she points out islam’s dichotomy/incompatibility with the west is so eloquent that they somehow left me wondering in my heart if she’s still a muslim.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Quazgaa–I have wondered the same.
LB says
Mind you, this post describes only the events from 20th century. All that doesn’t even come close to what the Turks did since they first started moving West at around 13th century. The Ottoman empire was founded on genocide and religious extermination and enslavement. Not only are the Turks today completely unapologetic about it, they wear it as a badge of honor and they pray those “glorious” times come back again.
Many countries today are founded on top of previous civilizations in their region, but none of them were so brutal and prideful in doing it as the Turks. That is why I firmly believe that Turkey is the most evil entity that exists today and should be removed off the face of the Earth as fast as possible before they start acting again on their delusions of grandeur.
Henry Schalk says
A flicker of hope still alight in Turkey?
https://www.duvarenglish.com/media/2020/05/22/turkeys-media-watchdog-fines-pro-govt-tv-channel-over-islamist-commentators-death-threats/
gravenimage says
Perhaps–but probably only because so many of these victims would be other Muslims.
OLD GUY says
She is a good example of the islamic dictatorship “religion” brainwashing its followers to kill her neighbors to keep the Islamic political leaders in power. What a shame that a country like Turkey falls to the political power hungry islamic “religion” that will destroy their society and freedoms.
black adder says
Τhey have ran out of infidels, so they will inevitably start cannibalizing each other. They need enemies.
Woke Infidel says
From one point of view, it might seem that the duty of the houris is hell itself: servicing an eternally copulation-crazy Muslim male, night after night for all time to come. 🙁
gravenimage says
Sounds hellish to me.