By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

     

Yesterday on October 29 our Muslim neighbour to the northwest, Turkiye, marked its 100th year as a republic that emerged from the ashes of the ailing Ottoman Empire that was dismembered by the Allied victors of the First World War, but this year’s anniversary celebrations were devoid of the usual festivities because of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as over a million citizens gathered in Istanbul waiving the Turkish and Palestinian flags as a sign of Islamic solidarity and denouncing the illegal Zionist entity for its crimes against humanity.

Modern Turkey or Turkiye was born in 1923, six years after Britain’s seizure of most of the Ottoman Arab possessions in West Asia, including the Islamic holy city of Bayt al-Moqaddas (wrongly called ‘Jerusalem’ by the western media), following its victory in the Third Battle of Gaza during October-November 1917, and the 2nd November scandalous declaration in London by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour for settling the European Zionists (non-Semitic Khazar converts to Judaism) in Occupied Palestinian as a prelude to creation of a spurious entity called ‘Israel’.

Imagine the anger over a century ago of world Muslims, especially of the Palestinians who were cheated by the British of the promise of liberation from Ottoman rule and of the Turks who for four centuries had administered the Levant with full freedom of worship for the Christian minority and the fraction of the real Semitic Jews living peacefully with the overwhelming Muslim majority.

This anger has assumed gigantic proportions all over the Muslim world as the Palestinians were gradually grounded into ‘human animals’ in their own ancestral land by the illegitimate Zionist rulers whom the British and Americans transformed into merciless monsters equipped with weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear bombs.

The rallies in Istanbul, Ankara, and other Turkish cities over the past few days are indicative of the bitter anger of the Ummah at the unabated carnage in Gaza and the abject helplessness of the Muslim countries to help their persecuted Palestinian brothers with means of proper defence, while the enemy now openly backed by super-terrorist US remorselessly bombs cities into rubble, destroying mosques, churches, hospitals and the entire infrastructure, and indiscriminately killing women, children, and the elderly.

This is the dastardly response of an illegal alien clique to the resistance of the lightly armed sons-of-the-soil following their heroic Operation Al-Aqsa Storm of October 7 that targeted only Israeli soldiers and the armed Zionist thugs (male and female) who used to regularly terrorize the Palestinian people.

In view of these undeniable facts, it is but natural of President Rajab Tayyeb Erdoghan to castigate Israel and its US-supported war crimes, while hailing Hamas as the liberation movement, which it is, without the least doubt.

Verbal support is welcome but not enough to satisfy the inflamed anger of the Turkish Muslim people. The government should transform its words into action, and the most constructive step that it can take on the 100th anniversary of Turkiye’s emergence as a republic is to bury the hatchet with neighbouring Syria and join the Resistance Front.

This way President Erdoghan will be doing a great service to both his country and to Islam, while ensuring an immortal place for himself in history.

For the moment, pressures should be applied to halt the carnage, but the only permanent solution to peace in the region is the closure of all American military bases and the Islamic will to marshal all resources for the grand campaign to liberate Bayt al-Moqaddas and weed out the cancerous tumour called Israel, which was planted on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine by the crafty British.