President Erdogan: I Kill and You Do Applaud
IRAN NEWS POLITICAL DESK
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is upset about some voices in Iran. He complains his Iranian counterpart President Hassan Rouhani for failing to silence the raucous voices in Iran. Exclamation mark does not by itself suffice Erdogan’s statement. He uses world “must” for Iranian president just for silencing those voices raised against Turkey and its attacks against Syrian Kurd’s positions.
It is not Iranian media’s job but it is the job of someone in Erdogan’s level to respond his insulting remarks. Someone in Iran’s government should remind Turkish President that here is Iran, and media are free to criticize and they even criticize the president, and a foreign president has his or her own place.
Someone in Iran should remind Mr. Erdogan that here is not Turkey where he could imprison thousands of his opponents and critics; here is not Turkey where he launched a fake coup in order to suppress his critics and opponents. Here is Iran whose president with his famous remark “I turn to God over shutting the mouths of critics” won the vote in the election.
One should remind Mr. Erdogan that whoever it is, and whatever he knows his decision over attack on PKK position in Syria is correct, he is only Turkey’s president and he is not in a position to tell over 83m Iranians what to do and not to do in order to agree or disagree his decisions and he is not allowed to use emphatic words like “must” for Iranian President just for silencing Iranians who oppose the massacre of civilians, women and children.
If Iranian statesmen stand on ceremony because of their compromising passiveness or political current stand, and they are unable to respond to Erdogan’s insulting remark, they are better not ask for their media’s silence or at least they should let the media remind Turkish president that they should talk about Iran, Iranians and Iranian officials in a decent way.
Although we do not support some stands and approaches of the Kurd people and we still remember some treasons of their leaders’ and we know that some wrong and unwise decisions of Kurd leaders in trusting the U.S. and creating a front to stand against Iran, Russia and Syrian government as well as their terrorist approach for getting independence, had nothing but war and displacement; and in the era that the world seems to have no concern about Kurds, we believe Kurds do not deserve punishment like displacement of thousands of their women and children in such a war.
Amid such ingratitude of Kurds, we will never forget Erdogan’s treasons, either. We still remember who was purchasing Iraq’s oil from Daesh forces; we have not yet forgotten who was talking arrogantly that he wants to pray his saying at Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. We have not forgotten that when our youths were fighting with Daesh forces and were being martyred, who supported takfiri terrorists logistically.
We know the PKK’s treason but we are not strange with Erdogan’s treasons, either. Syria war and occupation of Iraq by Daesh forces do not date back to a long time ago that we could have forgotten them. So it is better everybody speaks according to its weight and height. Both Kurds, when they are to talk about Iran, should not forget how Iran saved them from Daesh forces in Erbil and Mosul, and also Erdogan, when he speaks about Iran, should not forget Iran’s support during the 2016 sham coup d’etat as well as during the early days of Turkey’s war with Syria. Of course Turkey was one of the penitents and Iran and Russia accepted its repentance and now it is better it forgets claim of leadership.
Iranians in any condition, even being critical of their own president, will not stand any insult like “must” to their president.
Today Americans, who have been lord of Turkey and Erdogan for years are trying to soften their rhetoric and literature, in other words, are moving towards apology from Iranians. So it can be a lesson for Turkey or any other one who learns from the past to take care of their languages.
By: Hamid Reza Naghashian
