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Turkish people remain calm despite leaders' brinksmanship
A new poll by the Ankara Social Research Center shows that more than two-thirds of the Turkish people oppose intervention in Syria, despite the recent shooting of two Turkish military planes over Syrian waters. The poll, reported in the Turkish weekly al-Akhbar, also found that a majority want Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to take a more neutral stance toward the conflict in Syria.
The poll reflects a new reality; It is getting harder to use provocations to manipulate populations into supporting wars.
In the past, leaders could stage provocations, or take advantage of incidents like Friday's shoot-down, to generate widespread support for going to war. As Nazi leader Hermann Goering put it, Naturally the common people don't want war. . . That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy. . . The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
But it isn't working in Turkey. Why not?
Maybe it's because the Turks have seen plane-shoot-down provocations before. Several years ago, a group of Turkish military officers and fascist accomplices plotted a fake Greek shoot-down of a Turkish plane as part of a coup d'état against democracy called Operation Sledgehammer. The plotters were arrested, and dozens now face life imprisonment.
It isn't only the Turkish people who are growing increasingly skeptical of war provocations. In Spain, the 2004 Madrid train bombings, widely suspected of being a false-flag provocation, failed to rally Spaniards around pro-Iraq-war President Aznar, who was soundly defeated in elections three days later. Likewise, the July 2005 London bombings, exposed as a false-flag operation in Nick Kollerstrom's Terror on the Tube, failed to convince the British public to support the war in Iraq. And the big Mumbai terror attacks of 2008 and 2011 failed to rally the Indian people against Islam in general and Pakistan in particular, in part because they were quickly exposed as false-flag events.
The Turkish people's political maturity reflects lessons learned in their decades-long struggle for Islam and democracy, and against Kemalist secular fascism. The Turkish Kemalist leadership, working with NATO's Operation Gladio, tried every trick in the book to save the dictatorship, including a wide variety of provocations, but the people gradually got wise to the tricks.
In an interview with this writer Saturday, politically moderate Turkish TV host Ceylan Ozbudak agreed that the Turkish government should take a more neutral stance in the Syria crisis, and praised Prime Minister Erdogan for his restraint. Ozbudak stated that the Turkish people want a peaceful, diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis.
Even Americans - the people who have been fooled the most regularly into supporting unnecessary wars - may be more difficult to provoke than they were in the past. A 2007 poll found that 36% of the American people think it is very likely or somewhat likely that 9/11 was orchestrated or allowed by the US government to launch wars in the Middle East.
Dr. James Fetzer of the University of Minnesota-Duluth, founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, says he is not surprised that the Turkish people are responding calmly to the shoot-down, When even Americans appear to be becoming ever more aware of the lies they have been told by their government, which have been parroted by the mainstream media, it should come as no surprise if those living in countries where the press is more open and less controlled should have a greater awareness of attempts to manipulate public opinion, especially given the on-going and seemingly endless string of false-flag operations justified by deceit, deception and the demonization of national leaders such as Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi. This research appears to be encouraging news that the pattern has become virtually transparent and the people are becoming more critical in their thinking and more sophisticated in their politics.
Dr. Fetzer noted that 9/11 appears to have been the culmination of a series of orchestrated provocations that have launched most of America's wars: The bogus Mexican invasion of 1846, the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 and the Lusitania in 1915, the eight-point-plan to provoke Pearl Harbor in 1941, the mythical Gulf of Tonkin incident of 1964, and the Kuwait baby incubator hoax of 1990. He added that the rise of the internet has increased public skepticism about these incidents, and others like them, by making accurate information more widely available to the public.
Since 9/11, a long list of high-profile political, military, cultural, and educational leaders have questioned the official account of that day's events. Newly-elected Egyptian Prime Minister Mohamed Morsi is on record doubting the US government's story of 9/11, while Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly drawn standing ovations at the UN for expressing 9/11 skepticism.
Will war-mongering governments and their lap-dog media keep trying to use enemy attack incidents - whether real, orchestrated, or phony - to frog-march public opinion into line with their aggressive policies? Or will the people of all nations resist such manipulations and relegate them to the proverbial trash-heap of history?
The Turkish people's calm reaction to the shoot-down incident offers reasons for optimism. If such calm heads continue to prevail, President Dwight David Eisenhower's prediction may one day come true, The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
PressTV - Turkish people remain calm despite leaders' brinksmanship
A new poll by the Ankara Social Research Center shows that more than two-thirds of the Turkish people oppose intervention in Syria, despite the recent shooting of two Turkish military planes over Syrian waters. The poll, reported in the Turkish weekly al-Akhbar, also found that a majority want Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to take a more neutral stance toward the conflict in Syria.
The poll reflects a new reality; It is getting harder to use provocations to manipulate populations into supporting wars.
In the past, leaders could stage provocations, or take advantage of incidents like Friday's shoot-down, to generate widespread support for going to war. As Nazi leader Hermann Goering put it, Naturally the common people don't want war. . . That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy. . . The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
But it isn't working in Turkey. Why not?
Maybe it's because the Turks have seen plane-shoot-down provocations before. Several years ago, a group of Turkish military officers and fascist accomplices plotted a fake Greek shoot-down of a Turkish plane as part of a coup d'état against democracy called Operation Sledgehammer. The plotters were arrested, and dozens now face life imprisonment.
It isn't only the Turkish people who are growing increasingly skeptical of war provocations. In Spain, the 2004 Madrid train bombings, widely suspected of being a false-flag provocation, failed to rally Spaniards around pro-Iraq-war President Aznar, who was soundly defeated in elections three days later. Likewise, the July 2005 London bombings, exposed as a false-flag operation in Nick Kollerstrom's Terror on the Tube, failed to convince the British public to support the war in Iraq. And the big Mumbai terror attacks of 2008 and 2011 failed to rally the Indian people against Islam in general and Pakistan in particular, in part because they were quickly exposed as false-flag events.
The Turkish people's political maturity reflects lessons learned in their decades-long struggle for Islam and democracy, and against Kemalist secular fascism. The Turkish Kemalist leadership, working with NATO's Operation Gladio, tried every trick in the book to save the dictatorship, including a wide variety of provocations, but the people gradually got wise to the tricks.
In an interview with this writer Saturday, politically moderate Turkish TV host Ceylan Ozbudak agreed that the Turkish government should take a more neutral stance in the Syria crisis, and praised Prime Minister Erdogan for his restraint. Ozbudak stated that the Turkish people want a peaceful, diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis.
Even Americans - the people who have been fooled the most regularly into supporting unnecessary wars - may be more difficult to provoke than they were in the past. A 2007 poll found that 36% of the American people think it is very likely or somewhat likely that 9/11 was orchestrated or allowed by the US government to launch wars in the Middle East.
Dr. James Fetzer of the University of Minnesota-Duluth, founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, says he is not surprised that the Turkish people are responding calmly to the shoot-down, When even Americans appear to be becoming ever more aware of the lies they have been told by their government, which have been parroted by the mainstream media, it should come as no surprise if those living in countries where the press is more open and less controlled should have a greater awareness of attempts to manipulate public opinion, especially given the on-going and seemingly endless string of false-flag operations justified by deceit, deception and the demonization of national leaders such as Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi. This research appears to be encouraging news that the pattern has become virtually transparent and the people are becoming more critical in their thinking and more sophisticated in their politics.
Dr. Fetzer noted that 9/11 appears to have been the culmination of a series of orchestrated provocations that have launched most of America's wars: The bogus Mexican invasion of 1846, the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 and the Lusitania in 1915, the eight-point-plan to provoke Pearl Harbor in 1941, the mythical Gulf of Tonkin incident of 1964, and the Kuwait baby incubator hoax of 1990. He added that the rise of the internet has increased public skepticism about these incidents, and others like them, by making accurate information more widely available to the public.
Since 9/11, a long list of high-profile political, military, cultural, and educational leaders have questioned the official account of that day's events. Newly-elected Egyptian Prime Minister Mohamed Morsi is on record doubting the US government's story of 9/11, while Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly drawn standing ovations at the UN for expressing 9/11 skepticism.
Will war-mongering governments and their lap-dog media keep trying to use enemy attack incidents - whether real, orchestrated, or phony - to frog-march public opinion into line with their aggressive policies? Or will the people of all nations resist such manipulations and relegate them to the proverbial trash-heap of history?
The Turkish people's calm reaction to the shoot-down incident offers reasons for optimism. If such calm heads continue to prevail, President Dwight David Eisenhower's prediction may one day come true, The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
PressTV - Turkish people remain calm despite leaders' brinksmanship
