***** REPOSTING FROM Sean Rickards***** A couple of Turkish students were arrested at the site the Majdanik Death camp, after giving Nazi salutes to a group of Israeli students and shouting Heil Hitler. The two, identified by Turkish media as Mehmet A. and Mesuti T., were arrested after members of the Israeli group filed charges, and are being detained for promoting fascist propaganda, a crime punishable by up to 3 years imprisonment in Poland. But the pair protested their innocence, saying that although they appreciate that their actions were offensive, they had only meant it as a joke, according to Turkish source Today Zaman. Anti-Semitism across Turkey is a growing problem, which some analyst blame on the ruling Islamist AKP party, whose own leading officials have actively engaged in anti-Semitic rhetoric. This past weekend Bulent Yildrum, who heads the IHH, the Islamist group behind the infamous Mavi Marmara flotilla tweeted on Twitter that Turkish-speaking Zionist Jews in Turkey would pay the price for the death of IHH members who died attacking Israeli soldiers who boarded the ship back in 2010!
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:08:47 +0000
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