Bobby Miller in his March 26 article hopes that Turkish President Erdogan will lose the elections. Unfortunately, he hopes that Kemal Kilicdaroglu will win the elections. The latter
is the head of the Republican People’s Party which is no better than Erdogan’s Party. Both of these men are extreme Turkish nationalists and both of them openly call for invading Greece and seizing the Greek islands. Mr. Miller appears to be a throwback to the writers that believed Turkey was some kind of secular utopia before Erdogan totally destroyed that myth.
Mr. Miller shows no concern for Greece, Cyprus, Armenia, or the Kurds who are all being victimized by the present regime in Ankara. The Erdogan regime threatens Greece and Cyprus,
and has armed the terrorist state of Azerbaijan which started a war with Armenia and carried out war crimes and ethnic cleansing against Armenian soldiers and civilians alike. Is there
ever a time when American writers on foreign policy will give up on the myth of Turkey?
Kilicdaroglu heads the party that was founded by Mustafa Kemal and was later led by “bloody” Bulent Ecevit. Kemal was the homicidal maniac who presided over the mass extermination
of Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian Christians in Asia Minor. Ecevit ordered the bloody Turkish invasions of Cyprus in 1974. Virtually all of Turkey’s political leaders in Parliament have
criticized Erdogan.
They have not criticized him for his authoritarianism and for his intolerance of Christians. For example, they have not criticized his conversion of the Greek Orthodox Hagia Sophia into a Mosque back in 2020. They have criticized him for not following through on his threats to invade the islands of Greece which they refer to as “occupied territory”. Turkey will remain a threat to American interests as Ankara will remain hostile to the Kurds who represent a real future for democracy in the region were they ever to gain any form of independence.
Theodore Karakostas
Boston
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