New
Age Islam Special Correspondent
6 March
2021
In order to
achieve clearly ulterior ideological motives, Turkey and Pakistan have been
blindly supporting each other not only in defense relations but also at the
diplomatic level globally. Recently, when there was a border dispute with
Greece in the Mediterranean Sea, Pakistan had openly declared its support for
Turkey without even assessing the conflict and its ramifications. Similarly, in
the Mediterranean Sea, the navies of Pakistan and Turkey also declared
solidarity by conducting military exercises. In return, Turkey openly supports
Pakistan when it comes to Kashmir, be it an international platform or a
regional diplomatic conclave. Turkish President Erdogan has consistently raised
the issue at the UN forum to the extent of averring in February 2020 that the
Kashmir issue is as important to Turkey as it is to Pakistan.
Since then,
the Turkish President Erdogan is constantly trying to preach India on its human
rights record in Kashmir in its bid to gain sympathy from South Asian Muslims
to challenge Saudi Arabia's monarchy in the Muslim world. Therefore, he teamed
up with then-Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad and Pakistani PM Imran Khan to form
an alliance of non-Arab Islamic countries in a sharp contrast to the Saudi-led
OIC.
Earlier
also, Erdogan has repeatedly raised the Kashmir issue at the United Nations on
several occasions. In September last year, flagged the Kashmir issue while
addressing the UN General Assembly, and said that Kashmir was a burning issue
and crucial for peace and stability in South Asia. “This has become even more
serious problem after the removal of the Special Status of Jammu and Kashmir
(Article 370). We want to solve this problem under the UN resolution” Erdogan
said in a gesture to openly support Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan
during his address.
On the
occasion of Eid-ul-Azha in August last year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan assured Pakistani President Arif Alvi of earning him an avid
international support for Kashmir. Erdogan has compared Kashmir to Palestine
many times. Not only that, he has also falsely accused India of perpetrating
more grievous atrocities in Kashmir after the outbreak of the Covid-19. While
the truth is that Erdogan, who is trying to teach India a lesson of democracy
on Kashmir, is known in Turkey’s progressive cohorts as a populist and a
staunch Islamist dictator who supports several radical Salafist organizations
across the world including the notorious Ikhwan-ul-Muslimin which is banned in
Egypt.
Turkey has
now emerged as the second largest center of 'anti-India propaganda’ after
Pakistan. According to reports, radical Islamic organizations in all parts of
the country, including Kerala and Kashmir, have their sources of funding from
the Turkish establishment. Most
deplorably, Turkey is trying to dissuade Muslims in India, disassociate them
with their local culture and ethos, pluralistic Indo-Islamic values and thus
recruit extremists to further political ends. His attempt to expand his
influence through the nostalgia of the Ottoman Caliphate/Khilafat-e-Usmaniya
among South Asian Muslims is an open secret now.
Egregious
abuses of human rights within Turkey— persecution of the Hizmet Movement Sufi
followers, jailing of interdependent journalists, enforced disappearance of
scores of judges and lawyers, arrest and arbitration of teachers and many
pregnant woman teachers accused of being linked to the Gulenist Network,
sectarian attacks on the Shiite minority, and last but not the least, the
conversion of the historic Hagia Sophia Museum into a mosque that remained a
church until 1453; All these candidly expose the height of duplicity of Turkey
on the issue of Human Rights. Violators of human rights only preach and never
practice.
The Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights has claimed in recent reports that Turkey is in
the process of deploying Sadat—an organization of its mercenaries active in
Syria—in Kashmir. Sadat is led by Adnan Tanarivardi, Erdogan's military
adviser. Who has appointed a Kashmir-born terror sympathizer and a 24-hour
anti-India propagandist Ghulam Nabi Fai set up a base in Kashmir. Fai has been
sentenced to two years in a US jail for recruiting mercenaries and tax evasion
against India at the behest of Pakistan. An active member of the radical
organization Jamaat-e-Islami, Fai set up the American Council of Kashmir (KAC)
to plot against the developments in Jammu & Kashmir in the US.
In fact,
the current Erdogan government in Turkey is an Islamist regime in a country
which was actually a cradle of democracy, human rights and freedom of religion
and a glaring example for most Muslim nations in terms of secular ethos. But of
late, it has become a populist state full of political duplicity and moral
bankruptcy and hypocrisy. This can be clearly seen that Turkish President Recep
Tyep Erdogan is now habitual to preach to the world about what is right and
wrong, and thus 'enjoining good and forbidding evil' (an Islamist doctrine of
religious reformism often quoted by the radical and extremist organizations
across the Middle East, based on some misunderstood Verses of the Qur'an).
Clearly
motivated by political ulterior motives, Turkish President Erdogan has been
propagating the misleading rhetoric on the internal regional issue of Kashmir
in a crazy bid to target against the interests of India to back up Pakistan in
its ruthless propaganda on international forums including in the ongoing United
Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva.
Until now,
India has responded to Erdogan's blunts by merely focusing on bilateral
relations. But this time, it's too much, and it cannot be easily digested.
While Pakistan, China and Turkey don't pull any punches in collectively
targeting India on international platforms like the United Nations in a
collaborative and coordinated manner, India continues to looks up to the
mankind, including of course, all the different types of nations and the world
as 'One Family' in tandem with the Indian idea of "Vasudhaiv
Kutumbakam". But as the saying goes on in Arabic language, don't remain
innocent and saintly enough to let your enemies totally destroy you.
This is
precisely why, it seems, India on has asserted itself with a strong position to
counter Turkish President Erdogan and his allies on the issue, especially the
Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC). "OIC was misled by Pakistan
during its submissions at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)", India
said.
Exercising
its right of reply to the statements made by Pakistan and the OIC, Indian
diplomat Pawankumar Badhe rejected the reference to the UT of J&K in the
OIC statement. The 57-member organisation, he said, has no locus standi to
comment on matters related to J&K, which is an integral and inalienable
part of India. He expressed great regret that the “OIC continues to allow
itself to be exploited by Pakistan to indulge in its anti-India
propaganda".
The United
Nations Human Rights Council began its 46th session on Monday. The foreign
ministers of each country took turns: India's foreign affairs minister, S
Jaishankar spoke about terrorism, the pandemic, and vaccines; US Secretary of
State Antony Blinken spoke about democracy, harmony, and stability; but
Turkey's foreign minister stooped too low to speak on the run of the mill topic
of Kashmir to score a goal in the Islamist circles and gain more Muslim
sympathizers in South Asia and South East Asia, particularly in Pakistan and
Malaysia.
Isn't it a
clear duplicity and irony that Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Chavu-Shoglu,
while speaking on Kashmir at the UNHCR, pulled no punches in targeting India
but uttered no single word on the rights of Kashmiris in PoK? Blatantly,
Turkish FM made no mention of the state-sponsored terrorism of Pakistan in
Kashmir and the entire South Asian region.
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