Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has angrily lashed out against awarding Austrian writer Peter Handke with a Nobel Prize. Handke is accused of denying the 1995 Bosnian genocide and of being a “great admirer of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.”
In a Jihad Watch article, Hugh Fitzgerald stated this about Handke:
Peter Handke, a writer, scriptwriter, and journalist, is – outside of his writing – known most for his defense of the Serbs in the Balkan wars of the 1990s. He was virtually alone among non-Serbs in attempting to understand their fears and to stand up for them when no one else would. Handke thought the outside world was too quick to condemn the Serbs, not just for the atrocities they did commit, but for others that, he claimed, they did not commit, and furthermore, was willing to overlook many Muslim atrocities committed against the Serbs. For the world had already made up its mind. The Muslims were only innocent victims, the Serbs only cruel victimizers.
Handke was also mindful of Balkan history (his own mother was Slovenian, another people, like the Serbs, brutalized by the Ottomans).
Erdogan said this about Handke:
“‘It is a shame and disgrace to award a person who defends and praises a murderer who shed the blood of tens of thousands of Muslims,’ Erdogan said.”
Meanwhile, Erdogan continues to deny the Armenian genocide. Also, the Palestinian Authority routinely “praises” their jihadists for killing Jews and even pays them to do so (“pay for slay“); all while Erdogan teaches Turkish youth that “Jews in Israel beat Palestinian women and children.” He envisions amassing an army of Islam to destroy Israel.
It is stunning what the world tolerates from Muslims against Jews and Christians, yet countries which are founded on Judeo-Christian principles are primarily concerned about being deemed “Islamophobic,” due to the persistent propaganda spread by the likes of Erdogan, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and pro-Palestinian activists. Less than three months ago, “Erdogan called for action against “Islamophobia” at the UN General Assembly, and referred to “Islamophobia” as “the most dangerous peril of our time.”
The global jihad is the most dangerous peril of our time.
“Awarding Nobel to Handke encourages Islam’s enemies,” by Jeyhun Aliyev and Sibel Morrow, Anadolu Agency, December 10 2019:
Awarding the Nobel Prize to Peter Handke will only encourage “enemies of Islam and humanity”, the Turkish president said on Tuesday.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks came at a commemoration event at the presidential complex in the capital Ankara to mark the 75th year of Ahiska Turks’ exile.
“It is a shame and disgrace to award a person who defends and praises a murderer who shed the blood of tens of thousands of Muslims,” Erdogan said, referring to the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Literature Peter Handke, an Austrian writer who is accused of denying the 1995 Bosnian genocide.
Handke is known to be a great admirer of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who died in 2006 while facing trial in The Hague for war crimes and genocide.
“Stand up if you support the Serbs,” Handke wrote during the 1998-1999 Kosovo War.
He claimed that the Muslim Bosniaks in Sarajevo had killed themselves, adding that he never believed that the Serbs had committed genocide in Srebrenica.
Handke also visited Milosevic in prison and tried to testify in his favour.
“I am here for Yugoslavia, for Serbia, for Slobodan Milosevic,” Handke said in a 2006 eulogy for Milosevic.
In winning the prize, Handke will also receive 9 million Swedish kronor ($952,000) as well as a medal and a diploma.
Turkish president called on people of conscience to react over the controversial award.
“Those lecturing Turkey about democracy and law rolled out the red carpet for dictators and terrorists who killed tens of thousands of people,” said Erdogan…..