Turkey's war against Bangladesh

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*Monitoring the Erdogan regime's hostile and aggressive behaviour towards Bangladesh in support of Pakistan*

Turkey goes to bat for executed Jamaat leaders again
A screenshot of the news published in TRT on May 1
The report also lists police brutality, arbitrary arrests, silencing the opposition and enforced disappearances as being among the present government’s offences
TRT World – the news website of Turkey’s national broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation – published a report on May 1 terming Bangladesh a “rogue state,” and criticising the government for trying and executing war criminals linked to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and arrests of its supporters.

The report titled “Bangladesh’s rogue state: 10 things to know” says the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh is not international enough and accuses the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, of using the tribunal for political gains.

The report also lists police brutality, arbitrary arrests, silencing the opposition and enforced disappearances as being among the present government’s offences. It quotes the daughter of executed war criminal Mir Quasem Ali, Sumaiya Rabeya, to claim that women are raped in the custody of Bangladesh police.

The Bangladesh government has not given any official reaction to the Turkish government’s concerns portrayed in the report, which includes condemnations by sons and daughters of executed war criminals.

The report was published ahead of the apex court’s hearing on the government’s appeal against the life sentence to war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee – the last remaining influential leader of Jamaat.

The Appellate Division upheld its previous judgement (imprisonment till death), also rejecting Sayedee’s petition seeking acquittal.

In the near future, the apex court is likely to begin appeal hearing in the cases of two other senior Jamaat leaders – ATM Azhar and AKM Yusuf. Jamaat’s petition against the cancellation of its party registration is also pending with the top court.

While the Bangladesh government continues to execute the verdicts of the war crimes tribunals, children of the top war criminals linked to Jamaat-e-Islami and its local leaders are campaigning against the trial process at home and abroad – thanks to pro-Islamist governments in Turkey and Pakistan.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the government of Newaz Sharif in Pakistan have expressed concerns over the trials on several occasions since 2010, branding them as their martyrs, and blaming the ruling Awami League for political vengeance to wipe out its opposition.

The Pakistan government has condemned all the executions and war crimes verdicts calling the Jamaat leaders patriots of Pakistan. Its lawmakers proposed resolutions against the executions in parliament while the Foreign Ministry summoned Bangladesh’s high commissioner in Islamabad in protest.



Turkey condemned the execution of Jamaat’s leader Mir Quasem Ali in September last year, when, according to government officials of Bangladesh and Turkey, the bilateral relations had improved after a earlier breakdown.

The stance of Turkey and Pakistan has apparently increased confidence among the supporters of Jamaat and its radical student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir at a time when most of the top Jamaat leaders have been hanged or imprisoned by the International Crimes Tribunal formed in 2010.

Even though Jamaat has got a new leadership after the execution of Motiur Rahman Nizami last year, its political activities have remained limited to surprise processions, clandestine meetings on regrouping the grassroots and social media campaigns on contemporary issues linked to religion.

Leading opposition BNP has refused to sever ties with Jamaat and remains mum over the judgements against Jamaat leaders and their executions.

The Bangladesh wing of Pakistan-based Jamaat has close ties to the Turkish ruling party – Justice and Development Party, abbreviated JDP or AK in English. Egypt’s Brotherhood, Turkish AK Party, and Jamaat in Bangladesh and Pakistan want to establish Islamic rule in their own countries, according to the BBC.

Also Read: Govt protests Turkey’s reaction over Quasem’s execution

Turkey’s concerns for Jamaat
Erdogan issued a statement on the eve of Nizami’s execution in May last year, while demonstrators in Ankara and Istanbul protested against the hanging of the war criminal. Turkey also recalled its ambassador in Dhaka after Nizami was hanged.

“I condemn the mentality that sentences to death a mujahid, who is over the age of 70 and who we believe has no earthly sin. I think that such proliferation of hatred there, and the ordering of such death sentences despite our repeated initiatives, is neither fair governance nor a democratic mentality,” Erdogan said about Nizami.



He also lashed out at Europe for not speaking out against the execution. “Weren’t you against executions? There was no noise [from the EU] because the person who was executed was a Muslim.”

In September last year, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry floated a press release to protest the hanging of top Jamaat financier Mir Quasem Ali for war crimes.

Turkey also reacted strongly after the execution of convicted Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla in December 2013. Erdogan himself telephoned Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to stop the execution.

After the hanging, Erdogan warned that history would not forgive Bangladesh while his deputy Bekir Bozdag said that justice, human rights and the law had been trampled.

Also Read Nizami execution: Turkey withdraws Bangladesh ambassador

In December 2012, then Turkish president Abdullah Gul wrote to his Bangladeshi counterpart Zillur Rahman, calling on him not to put former Jamaat ameer Ghulam Azam to death if he was found guilty.

Sudden improvement, sudden fall
Despite tension over the war crimes trials, Bangladesh had an export volume of $720 million with Turkey in fiscal 2015 against the import of $158.90m.

“Bilateral trade will exceed $2 billion within short time if cooperation is intensified,” Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said after a meeting with Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Devrim Ozturk in September last year.

Lauding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership, Ozturk said Bangladesh was moving ahead with her dynamic leadership and that Turkey would be beside Bangladesh in this journey.

Ozturk was sent back to Dhaka on August 12 last year, three months after Turkey called back the ambassador to Ankara.

After his return, Ozturk at a press briefing condemned the brutal murder of Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and expressed his gratitude to Hasina for her government’s support of the Turkish democracy during the July 15 attempted coup.

He said: “Bangladesh had helped Turkey by expressing its support to Erdogan’s government after the failed coup attempt.”

At another meeting with Bangladesh Ambassador in Ankara M Allama Siddiki held in November last year, Turkish Minister of National Education Ismet Yilmaz described the bilateral relation as warm and traditional.


http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/05/17/63850/



My thoughts.

1. Bangladesh has been to passive with Turkey's very hostile behaviour and has constantly gone out of its way to be nice, in plain words Turkey has insulted Bangladesh and Bangladesh sucks up to it.

This has to be stopped.

2. The ultimate way that decision makers in Dhaka see Turkey is probably through the prism of optimizing trade. Thus from their angle they will not try to do anything that will offend Turkey.

However how long can this go on for?

3. How long can this one-sided, one-way obsequious deference to the Turks and Erdogan and his criminal regime go on for?

Any terrorist attack takes place, Hasina herself will instantly send an excessively long statement of regret, whilst Erdogan has no regret for the hundreds of thousands killed and raped by the Pakistani army in 1971.

The coup took place last year Hasina sends a message of complete support for the Erdogan regime.

4. Turkey and Erdogan's regime are violating all basic norms of respecting another country's sovereignty and constantly provoking and insulting Bangladesh.

This is unacceptable and we must seriously think of withdrawing our ambassador and closing our embassy sooner or later, as well as speaking to other Muslim countries such as Egypt, Iran, Algeria about Erdogan's behaviour.
 

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Bangladesh Chose OTOKAR's MRAP


The Bangladesh Army has awarded a mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) personel carrier contract to Turkish OTOKAR company. OTOKAR has outstrip other contenders such as BAE Land Systems's RG-32.

Cobra II has been specially designed and developed as a Mine-Resistant Personnel Carrier to provide high protection against mine and ballistic threats besides its superior mobility. Cobra II can transport up to 10 personnel including the driver and commander within its monocoque hull. This vehicle offers superior protection against improvised explosive device (IED) and ballistic without sacrificing mobility army needs to operate in marshland to desert of Africa.

http://en.c4defence.com/Agenda/bangladesh-chose-otokar-s-mrap/4308/1



My comments:

So Erdogan and Turkey constantly insult Bangladesh and support war criminals and the mass murder of hundreds and thousands of Bangladeshis, and the Bangladeshi government reply by awarding them military contracts?

All military deals with Turkey must be suspended and cancelled until Turkey informally apologises for its insulting and aggressive behaviour towards Bangladesh in the past few years.
 

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Sultan Erdogan wants the return of Ottoman empire but ends up making his country an international joke. Turkish regime drank it's own coolaid about the importance of Turkey in international affairs.

All Bangladesh has to do is to grow a spine. Let Turkey whine all it wants.
 

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Sultan Erdogan wants the return of Ottoman empire but ends up making his country an international joke. Turkish regime drank it's own coolaid about the importance of Turkey in international affairs.

All Bangladesh has to do is to grow a spine. Let Turkey whine all it wants.
We all know Erdogan is a thug and a madman, the problems are these:

1. Erdogan supports the Pakistanis and their proxies, the BNP-Jamaat in Bangladesh. The Pakistanis fund and sponsor the BNP. If the BNP (with their allies Jamaat) come back to power Pakistan expects in return a rabidly anti-Indian Bangladesh hostile to India and working to promote separatism against India and an end to all healthy co-operation and trade.

2. Erdogan will also expect the BNP-Jamaat regime in Dhaka to be loyal and compliant to him, and Bangladesh will be a vassal state of the Pakistan-Turkey (neo-Ottoman) axis.

3. Erdogan however gets to have his cake and eat it. He supports the BNP-Jamaat so if they return to power they will be loyal to him and reward him, however he still gets good treatment from the current Awami League government e.g. that Otokar deal in the post above.

However the current government must make it clear they will not accept interference in our internal affairs as we are a sovereign state with a population twice as big as Turkey.

I suggest the following.

a: Suspend/cancel all military deals with this hostile state which supports Pakistan, an enemy state.

b: Liaise with Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Algeria and issue a joint statement expressing disappointment at Turkey's constant interference in the internal affairs of these Muslim countries and threaten a collective expulsion of Turkish ambassadors in one go by these 6 Muslim countries.


The Egyptians are not happy with Erdogan who has constantly insulted them and disrespected their sovereignty.

The Syrians are ready to go to war with him and have killed his proxies in Syria including ISIS whom he supports.

The Iraqis have threatened him with war.

Iran supports both Syria and Iraq and is the main power backing them if they go to war with Turkey.

Algeria is a supporter of Republican Arab nationalist states e.g. a strong supporter of Syria.

If we don't expel the Turks we should at least form a platform where these 6 states meet to discuss security issues and hint at banning the purchase of all Turkish military products and other things.

You're right, Bangladesh needs to grow a spine.
 

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Bhai tu tension mat le ..Bangladesh will automatically grow spine and show the bengal tiger if the indian tiger show some spine ..Just pray that this Madman Modi stays in power for another term ..Erdagon can go and fly his Turk dreams in his heaven ..

India is getting ready its Harpic to clean sweep the dirty toilet land called pakistan sooner or later and that will happen only under modi because he is equally an Egoistic like Erdagon..If that happens Pakistan can kiss its own ass and say goodbye to all its Pak-Turk Axis...

We all know Erdogan is a thug and a madman, the problems are these:

1. Erdogan supports the Pakistanis and their proxies, the BNP-Jamaat in Bangladesh. The Pakistanis fund and sponsor the BNP. If the BNP (with their allies Jamaat) come back to power Pakistan expects in return a rabidly anti-Indian Bangladesh hostile to India and working to promote separatism against India and an end to all healthy co-operation and trade.

2. Erdogan will also expect the BNP-Jamaat regime in Dhaka to be loyal and compliant to him, and Bangladesh will be a vassal state of the Pakistan-Turkey (neo-Ottoman) axis.

3. Erdogan however gets to have his cake and eat it. He supports the BNP-Jamaat so if they return to power they will be loyal to him and reward him, however he still gets good treatment from the current Awami League government e.g. that Otokar deal in the post above.

However the current government must make it clear they will not accept interference in our internal affairs as we are a sovereign state with a population twice as big as Turkey.

I suggest the following.

a: Suspend/cancel all military deals with this hostile state which supports Pakistan, an enemy state.

b: Liaise with Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Algeria and issue a joint statement expressing disappointment at Turkey's constant interference in the internal affairs of these Muslim countries and threaten a collective expulsion of Turkish ambassadors in one go by these 6 Muslim countries.


The Egyptians are not happy with Erdogan who has constantly insulted them and disrespected their sovereignty.

The Syrians are ready to go to war with him and have killed his proxies in Syria including ISIS whom he supports.

The Iraqis have threatened him with war.

Iran supports both Syria and Iraq and is the main power backing them if they go to war with Turkey.

Algeria is a supporter of Republican Arab nationalist states e.g. a strong supporter of Syria.

If we don't expel the Turks we should at least form a platform where these 6 states meet to discuss security issues and hint at banning the purchase of all Turkish military products and other things.

You're right, Bangladesh needs to grow a spine.
 

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Bhai tu tension mat le ..Bangladesh will automatically grow spine and show the bengal tiger if the indian tiger show some spine ..Just pray that this Madman Modi stays in power for another term ..Erdagon can go and fly his Turk dreams in his heaven ..

India is getting ready its Harpic to clean sweep the dirty toilet land called pakistan sooner or later and that will happen only under modi because he is equally an Egoistic like Erdagon..If that happens Pakistan can kiss its own ass and say goodbye to all its Pak-Turk Axis...
Pakistan sees itself in a war with India and as a country whose final destiny is to defeat and subjugate India in an epic Hindu-Muslim showdown.

The Pakistan army will never allow for there to be peace between India and Pakistan and it is yearning for revenge for 1971.


1. Turkey supporting anti-Indian forces in India's eastern flank (the BNP-Jamaat nexus) i.e. in Bangladesh is a national security issue for India and Bangladesh and India should co-ordinate policy on this.

2. Erdogan exploits pan-Muslim, pan-Islamic sentiment for his goals of being a neo-Ottoman Sultan so if Bangladesh can work with other Muslim countries such as Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt against Erdogan that negates some of his exploitation of pan-Muslim feeling.

3. The BNP-Jamaat nexus are an anti-Bangladeshi entity opposed to real Bangladeshi independence and for a Bangladesh at peace with and trading with India.

They are anti-Bangladeshi, anti-Indian and must be defeated at all costs and never allowed to regain power.

If they do it will be a disaster, a catastrophe for both India and Bangladesh, and Pakistan has once again re-occupied Pakistan with its troops, this time not with Pakistani soldiers in Khaki but sons of Pakistan from the BNP-Jamaat nexus.
 

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