Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A Comparison: Erdogan and Fascism

Here is what Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said in his party congress in Düzce a few days ago:

"Various ethnic identities have been expelled from our country in the past. It was actually the result of a fascistic approach."

Wow, what a brave democrat, right?

Before answering this question, you should know what the same Erdogan had said in the Rize congress of his former party in 1993:

"The Jew knows about my leader, but my brother in the mosque doesn't know about him enough. I'm asking you: All those people in our country, the US, the West and the Zionists, what are they afraid of? When I was following my (Islamist) leader in the past, I was young, but I had noticed that the US didn't like him; neither the West and the Jew did. The testimony of the enemy is the most reliable one. Because the Jew knows our leader very well."

Change, but what kind of change? Like a chameleon?