Headlines:
- Turkish PM Slams Refugee Policy of ‘Christian fortress Europe’
- PKK Stages Deadly Ambush on Turkish Convoy
- Turkey: ‘Women 20’ Launched to Promote Gender Equality
Turkish PM Slams Refugee Policy of ‘Christian fortress Europe’
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu on Sunday criticised the “ridiculously small” share of refugees the EU is accepting, labelling the continent the “Christian fortress Europe.”
Turkey had taken more than two million people alone from war-torn Syria and Iraq, creating “a buffer zone between the chaos and Europe,” Davutoglu wrote for Monday’s edition of Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily.
He criticised as low the financial contribution the EU had made in support of Turkey’s effort, according to excerpts pre-released in German by the conservative newspaper Sunday.
There seemed to be the “convenient reflex” to load the refugee problems on the shoulders of Turkey and to build a “Christian fortress Europe,” he wrote.
Such an approach contradicted European values, and Turkey as an EU candidate nation could not imagine it had the support of majority of Europeans, wrote the prime minister.
For Europe, it was time to finally act collectively on immigration, he added, saying that Turkey was ready for a coordinated cooperation with “our European partners.” [Source: Yahoo News]
Families of the Ummah are being vanished since the destruction of the Khilafah. Because they no longer have any shield to protect them. They just have some leaders that hired out their minds to their enemies that claim to be one. As they were not allies of Christian states that hired out their lands to bomb Muslim countries.
PKK Stages Deadly Ambush on Turkish Convoy
The number of casualties could not be independently verified, but in a televised statement Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed an attack had taken place in Hakkari province, near Turkey’s border with Iran and Iraq.
“A mine attack has been staged. There will be a very particular and decisive fight there. We are very sad,” Erdogan told the A-Haber channel.
NTV television said militants staged a mine attack on two military vehicles in a convoy in the Daglica district of Hakkari, a known stronghold of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The PKK said it had killed 15 Turkish soldiers in the attack.
The ambush comes amid almost daily violence between the PKK and Turkish armed forces, but if that casualty toll is confirmed, it would be the most severe attack since a ceasefire was broken between Ankara and the militant group this summer.
The PKK attacks are in response to a government offensive against the group in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq. More than 50 members of the security forces have been killed this year in attacks blamed on the PKK, but the government has pledged to keep up its airstrikes.
Although neither side has officially declared an end to the peace process, there are concerns that much of the violence stems from Kurdish youth groups and factions that are acting independently. [Source: Deutsche Welle]
The peace process is a kind of eclipse over the mind. Turkish Prime Minister and President are still talking about peace process. There is no explanation to deal with killers of tens of thousands of innocent people.
Turkey: ‘Women 20’ Launched to Promote Gender Equality
Business and political leaders from the world’s 20 biggest economies have launched the Women 20 (W20), which is an outreach group under the G20 dedicated to promoting gender-inclusive economic growth.
The W20 group, proposed by Turkey’s G20 presidency and comprising 20 women leaders from G20 nations, will host its first summit in October of the year in Istanbul; the group is fully committed to achieving a gender inclusive global economic growth in the G20 countries through the economic empowerment of women.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu spoke at the launch event for W20 in the capital Ankara on Sunday.
The Turkish premier said that the W20 meeting would be written in history. “Not the history of G20 but in the history of humanity. Without women participation, there can be no future of global economy,” he added.
He also said that inclusiveness was needed to overcome the ongoing global economic and political crises.
“Inclusiveness is a remedy for many problems of today. Why we have political problems, for example, in Syria or Iraq? [It is] because UN Security Council was not able to take necessary decision on time. Why? Because five permanent states in the UN decide what will happen.”
He also warned G20 leaders, which collectively account for 80 percent of world trade, about the growing issues of youth unemployment and inequality.
He said that international peace could be achieved through economic cooperation and interdependent economic relations.[Source: Anadolu Agency]
There is no other explanation of promoting Western notions than being a Western admirer. There is no other explanation of presiding a western led organization than being a western agent.