Those Who Hunt with the Wolf Lament with the Shepherd

News:

President Erdoğan addressed the citizens at his party's rally organized at July 15 Democracy and Martyrs Park in Mardin. Erdoğan said, "Our Palestinian brothers and sisters are the witnesses of Turkey's strong support for the Palestinian cause. Even if some ignorant people among us do not know it, the oppressed people of Gaza know very well Tayyip Erdoğan's upright and strong stance." (Agencies 13.03.2024)

Comment:

As Turkey enters the election period, democratic political parties do not hesitate to legitimize every means and every work in order to reach their goals. Parties act in line with the ideas that cause their existence. In order to consolidate their base, some of them eat the personalities they idolize like halva, while others strive to maximize their political interests by provoking the feelings of the Muslim people.

For the last 22 years, there is no other leader who has exploited the feelings and beliefs of Muslims as much as the AK Party government and its president, President Erdoğan. He has time and again repeated that he is the hope of salvation for the other lands of the oppressed Islamic Geography in his rallies and addresses to the crowds before every election he has entered, and that when he wins, these lands will also win. This understanding has become so widespread that even the Istanbul mayoral candidate of his party did not hesitate to use the same language while addressing the public. They tore their veil of shame to say that if we win, Gaza will win.

While since October 7, the crimes, genocides and atrocities committed by the Jewish kafir have left the Gazan Muslims to die with starvation, Erdogan's statement that he stands by our Palestinian brothers and sisters is a big lie. In reality, as the story goes, you are the ones who work with the wolf and shed crocodile tears with the shepherd. Your words are worthless when your hand is shaking the bloody hands of the Jewish kafir. If you were really true to your word, you would have responded to the cries of the oppressed people there, who have been asking for help from you against this atrocity that has been going on for 6 months, with the armies under your command and prevented this cruelty of the Jewish kafir. Then your words would not have been contradicted by your deeds. But in the face of this genocide that has been going on for months, you have shown to all Muslims, especially in Gaza, that you have no other concern than protecting your seats of power with perception operations in order to exploit the feelings of the Muslim people. This is witnessed by everyone.

You didn't and couldn't mobilize the armies. Were you also unable to cut off your diplomatic ties? Does it not even bother you that your uninterrupted trade with the Jewish kafir has led to the killing of the Gazan Muslims? O slaves whose qibla is indexed to the west, to dollars, to interests, when will you realize that you are slaves to your masters as well as to your passions?

You are the incapable ones who, despite your gigantic armies, try to get around the slaughter of Muslims whom you call our brothers and sisters in front of the eyes of the world by condemning it. You are the troublemakers of the Ummah, who see the prosperity of your seats as more precious than the blood of Muslims. You are the reason for the Jewish kafir to commit genocide with more courage with your trade and relations. On the Day of Reckoning, you will not be saved by the evil doers who give fatwas for you and your deeds, nor will your paid trolls who try to turn the truth upside down with perception operations.

Mr. Erdogan, you used to say that if we are wrong, tell us to our faces so that we can correct ourselves, but your mistakes have become a road to space. By giving up these cruelties and crimes, you can test your sincerity by sending your armies to the Jewish kafir. If we look at what you have done so far, it is obvious that your trade, in the sense that what you have done is a guarantee of what you will do, will be more valuable than the cry of the oppressed. I hope you will prove us wrong this time!

[كُلُّ نَفْسٍ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَه۪ينَةٌۙ]“Every soul will be detained for what it has done” [Al-Muddaththir: 38].

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Ahmet SAPA