Nous Sommes Tous Charlie... de Gaulle!
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1068 .... January 15, 2014
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Nous Sommes Tous Charlie... de Gaulle!
Sungur Savran
In politics there is a golden rule: beware agreements that cut across all political currents! The tragedy of Charlie Hebdo has been turned into a farce by the mammoth march in Paris, along with similar ones in cities across France, large and small. It is an insult on human intelligence to tie, in whatever combination, the names of Wolinski, Charb, Cabu and company with people of the ilk of the Camerons, Merkels, Rajoys, Renzis and Junckers of the world!
Here is a march that is dedicated to the freedom of expression. And on the first row of the heads of state and government is, lo and behold, Ahmet Davutoglu, successor in the office of prime minister... of Turkey to Tayyip Erdogan, newly elected president of the republic, who, in his twelve years as head of government, has ridden roughshod over the freedom of expression in his country! Davutoglu also has another distinction, that of having acted, as foreign minister before becoming prime minister, as aide-de-camp to Tayyip Erdogan in the latter's quest of bringing down Beshar Assad of Syria through the good offices of all manner of Islamic fundamentalists. And lately, the Turkish government not only stood aside gleefully watching the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) try to bulldoze Kobanê, one of the newly autonomous cantons of the Kurds of Syria, rubbing its hands in anticipation of the collapse of this newly-won autonomy, but has also been supporting this organization in underhanded fashion, as much evidence shows. Now it is this self-same ISIL to which belonged Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who took the shoppers in a Parisian kosher grocery hostage, only to be killed in the final shootout. Davutoglu rubs shoulders on the streets of Paris with "world leaders from 50 countries" and tweets, in French for good measure, asserting he is "in Paris in unity with the French people against terrorism." What shameless hypocrisy! International readers would certainly not be aware of this, but the people of Turkey know very well that this very same Davutoglu has refused, again and again, to call the ISIL a "terrorist organization"!