The Turkish summer camp where children are taught to shout ‘death to Jews’

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Michael Daventry
August 6, 2019 14:06

The Turkish summer camp where children are taught to shout ‘death to Jews’

Politician calls for government probe after footage of young girls being encouraged to hate generates outrage in Turkey



A Turkish MP has demanded an explanation from ministers after a woman was filmed apparently encouraging children in a summer camp troop to chant “death to Jews”.

The video footage, which went viral on social media in Turkey last week, showed her prompting an audience of young girls by shouting the word yahudiye — Turkish for “to the Jew”.

The children are then shown raising their fists in response and shouting “death”.

The group — which is seated in a forest setting — is also prompted to shout “Palestine will be set free”.

The video has been viewed nearly 400,000 times since it first appeared on Twitter on July 31. Turkish media reports said no one has been charged in relation to its content.

Hate crimes became a criminal offence in Turkey after being added to the country’s penal code in 2014.

It is not clear where or when the footage was filmed, but the chants closely resemble a rallying cry routinely used by the Aczmendi, a Muslim fundamenalist cult based in eastern Turkey.

Members of the fringe sect believe Turkish troops should be use to “cleanse” Palestine of Jewish people.

The newspaper Cumhuriyet said the footage was a “scandal” while Garo Paylan, a member of Turkey’s opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party, said it was evidence of child abuse.

He said the children in the footage had clearly been exploited and were being encouraged to commit a hate crime.

The politician, who is Turkey’s first MP of Armenian descent in decades, has tabled a question in Turkey’s parliament asking the interior and justice ministers to explain where the video was filmed and explain whether the authorities had taken any action.

Mar Paylan tweeted that he wanted to file a criminal report against the camp leader and the organisation she worked for.

“Hate speech opens the path to hate crimes,” he said.

The Turkish government has not publicly commented on the content of the video. The country’s Interior Ministry did not respond to the JC’s request for comment.

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[21993]

Sad...

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A Turkish MP has demanded...

A Turkish MP of Armenian origin, the only one in Turkish parliament.

”I curse the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide” – Garo Paylan
http://hayernaysor.am/en/archives/309783

[Sora]

@Petros Houhoulis what's wrong with you, dude?

[Kamal900]

While it is bad and all..what about places like Israel for example where they teach young people to hate their enemies and calling their genocide against them and so on? I think Raine doesn't give a shit about these things, and she thinks that only Turks are the bad big daddies and so on. Just when I thought that things had cooled down around here.

[itilvolga]

I couldn’t even stand to look at this picture. No comment.

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I think Raine doesn't give a shit about these things, and she thinks that only Turks are the bad big daddies and so on. Just when I thought that things had cooled down around here.

I have posted countless articles that were critical to Israels treatment of Palestinians, but of course I will also be critical to anyone calling for the death of Jews.

The children are then shown raising their fists in response and shouting “death”.

The group — which is seated in a forest setting — is also prompted to shout “Palestine will be set free”.

And do you think Turks give a shit about Palestinians? No they only care about Jihad and that Israel spoils their neo-Ottoman plans. Muslims gonna Muslim.

[Kamal900]

Where do Israeli children call for the genocide of their enemies? This type of behaviour is widespread among Muslim children, have you ever watched Hamas tv?

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/zvi-...rabs-1.5288705

You're welcome.

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https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/zvi-...rabs-1.5288705

You're welcome.

That behaviour is not acceptable in Israel,

”The young criminals who mercilessly beat Jamal Julani and his cousins simply because they're Arabs don't live in settlements..”

It calls them criminals. Meanwhile Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia call for the death of Jews despite never having seen a Jew in their lives.

Jews and Palestinians have reasons to be hateful against each other. But what reason does a Turk or a Somali has to call for the death of Jews other than religion?

[Phenix]

If the article is true, that's a sad and ugly way to raise your kids, but the opposite camp have not made progress either.