From history, we know names like Marathon, Salamis and Termopylene. Idomeni also sound of something historic and could very well be it. But it is a battle with other agents. The media would like it that barbed wire fences and police in opprørsmundur stands for violence power. But they are even representatives of forces that do not hesitate to use people as pieces. One might say they provide a humanity cutting a brutal business that threatens to lower the European welfare states and social peace.
Further east waged pure military battles. One need not go further than eastern Turkey where Erdogan’s security forces leads outright war against the Kurdish civilian population. Thats officially, it is against the PKK; but the PKK is inseparable from the civilian population, ergo treats the military all enemies.
It is a war we hear little about in Europe. Americans are better.
Associated Press came into town Cizre on March 2. Authorities introduced 24-hour curfew on December 14, first on February 11 declared the military operations ended.
When the AP visited the city so it like this:
similar to Gaza or Syria, this is why we do not hear so much about it? At a NATO ally behaves like Assad or “Israelis” disturbs the mental map.
Cizre is no village. It is a city of 132,000 inhabitants.
The town of 132,000 near the banks of the Tigris river and the borders of Syria and Iraq HAS BEEN the worst hit in terms of the scale of the fighting and the casualty toll. The level of damage seen in some neighborhoods Wednesday evoked the early days of the war in neighboring Syria, with buildings gutted by shelling or partially collapsed.
The army says more than 600 Kurdish rebels were killed in Cizre. Human rights groups say 92 civilians were killed in the town during the military operation and another 171 bodies havebeen found since hostilities halted Feb. 11.
When residents allowed to return, got the shock of destruction, and evidence of the brutal warfare – surviving equal. Basement which was blown up with people.
“Those Who did this are not human,” said Cizre resident Serif Ozem. “What took place here is a second Kobani in a country That is Supposed to be a democracy.”
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Ozturk Turkdogan, WHO heads the Ankara-based Human Rights Association, said an additional 171 bodies had BEEN retrieved from three basements in Cizre since Turkey DECLARED the battle over.
“We believe That these people were unarmed and civilians,” he foretold the AP.
Turkdogan Also accused Turkish Authorities of overusing the time between the end of security operations and the lifting of the curfew two destroyers any evidence of wrong doing.
“The basements were razed to the ground,” he said.
Gatekeeper to Europe
It’s potentate who treat its own people so that the EU must negotiate with if migrantstrømmen. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has threatened to open the floodgates. That means he also has the power to shut them down.
At the weekend went Greece and Turkey on NATO to go into their waters and Turkey said it was willing to take back migrants who were picked up in Turkish waters. Turkish Coast Guard picks some up and let them loose for a few hours or days, so they are free to try again. The scale is modest.
We have not seen an example of NATO ships forcibly towing migrantbåter back.
Why not?
Because neither the world strongest military alliance fails to decide.
It is as ineffectual as national and supranational politicians. Western politicians spit of their own conventions and rights.
Politicians Putin, Assad and Erdogan has no such qualms. They thus have a great advantage over Western politicians with tender stomachs / conscience.
Putin, Assad and Erdogan can use the humanitarian card to push the West, and they do it gladly. In the background stands IS threatening Europe with terrorist on a scale that has not hitherto been seen, if you believe the intelligence warnings.
Right now stands Battle of Idomeni.
Photo: A truck has arrived Idomeni with firewood and load being stormed by hordes of young men. It is these scenes that frightens the Europeans. What makes these young men when they become frustrated enough at a later date?
Otto Mann Erne took Constantinople. They had to give up to take Vienna. Now they can take Europe. Erdogan can pour in migrants, knowing that they inundate Greece and builds up at Idomeni. The nerves to the EU politicians are becoming increasingly threadbare. Erdogan knows that. He knows that he should press on, then they will break.
According to NATO’s supreme Putin has the same interest with Erdogan when it comes to destabilize Europe with migrants.
EU can not lift eyes and see what happens. Angela Merkel was merciless against the Greeks and chastised the Greek government to do the opposite of what it had promised. But she can not be real politician in the face of migration. When she becomes mother Theresa. Last weekend she told ARD that she would never go in for a policy that left the burden to one country alone, Greece. It would be un-European. Everyone had to contribute. This says Merkel even though she knows that it is completely unrealistic. The weekend came right extremists in the Slovak parliament.
Human rights and migration has become a battleground. Our media and politicians will not deal with the people about security problems, economic problems, cultural conflicts and tensions to an extent we have not experienced. It was these pages the internal Foreign Ministry memorandum tried to relate to.
The relationships are obvious to anyone with a minimum of historical and political insight. Still continuing media treat what is happening at sea and at Idomeni only as a humanitarian suffering, which can only have one solution: the border must be opened.
It is becoming increasingly clear that there are powerful forces behind using migrants as pieces.
the Battle of Idomeni will go down in history. The outcome will be very important for the fate of Europe.
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