Letter to National Public Radio

The following letter is in response to the May 16 news report, “What Turkey’s Presidential election could mean for the US and Europe”. The report totally ignores Turkey’s aggressive designs toward Greece, ongoing occupation of the Republic of Cyprus, and support for the murderous and genocidal regime in Azerbaijan which has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against ethnic Armenians.The elections in Turkey are not the casual elections of a normal democratic country.

They are the elections in a country dominated by extreme right fascist-Islamist, and fascist-racist parties. The top two contenders for the Presidency in Turkey are both extremists bent on war toward neighboring Greece. President Erdogan has repeatedly threatened to invade the Greek islands. His opponent, Kemal Kiridaloglu has considered war monger Erdogan to have been too soft on Greece. NPR’s coverage of Turkey is typical of western media outlets who are soft on Turkey and completely indifferent to the victims of Turkish aggression and expansionism.

The Greek islands that both candidates in Turkey’s elections openly covet are populated one hundred percent by ethnic Greeks. Turkish demands that Greece either demilitarize the islands (totally unmentioned in this bogus news report) or face invasion are threats to commit genocide. Turkey’s Azerbaijani allies have demonstrated very effectively what Turkish leaders are capable of. The western alliance as a whole is complicit in the massacres and ethnic cleansing of Armenians because they have not condemned Turkish atrocities and they continue to treat Turkey like a normal country.

Greeks can expect the same in the event that Turkey invades the Greek islands. Both Turkish leaders are psychopaths who crave a greater Turkey. The major difference between them is that Erdogan is a fanatical jihadist (his regimes longs standing support for ISIS and Al quada is another fact completely unmentioned in the news report) whereas Kiridaloglu is an old line supporter of the Turkish Republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal. Kemal was the murderous dictator who slaughtered every Greek and Armenian in Anatolia in order to achieve a racially pure state. 

Your coverage of events in Turkey is condemnable.

Theodore Karakostas
Boston