Bangalore: The entire Western world and its myriad human rights organisations, including the Amnesty International, are silent on the ruthless suppresison of democracy in Turkey where the ruling Islamist Party was banned and practising Islam itself was prohibited in a pure Muslim country.
This confirms our oft-expressed fear that “democracy itself is a Western concept and fighting Islam and promoting racism are permitted under this “democracy”.
Brussels: With the Turkish Primer, Mesut Yilmaz. refusing to attend the European conference, Euro-Turkish relations have taken a downward swing Yilmaz accused Germany particularly and the 15-EU member states generally of “discrimination” agains! Turkey, as his country has been left out of the would be members of the European Union. He charged Germany with pursuing in eastern Europe a policy adopted by Hitler who sought aggressive expansion in the thirties to create what Nazis called “living space” for the German masses. There are 2 million Turks. working in Germany. Many Turkish families have been victimised by the surge of neo-nazi racism in Germany. The rightwing neo-nazi movement is attracting more supporters in the former communist-ruled East Germany, where there is high unemployment. (Hindu March 14, 1998).
