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Andrey Karlov, Russian ambassador to Turkey, assassinated — 13 Comments

  1. According to Sky News, the attacker shouted: “We made an oath to die in martyrdom…it is revenge for Syria and Aleppo.”

    He is believed to have added: “Until they are safe, you will not taste safety.

    “Get back, only death will take me from here.”

    It is understood the man was speaking in Arabic…

    This man is clearly doomed. Let’s do our best to mitigate the damage by moving his family to the US. And give his kids scholarships to OSU. And cars; they must have cars if they’re going to realize the American dream.

    Which involves butcher knives, because, BBQ,

  2. This piece over at Hot Air thinks Erdogan may blame the Kurds for the assasination:

    I can easily picture this being a situation where Erdogan figures out a way to blame it on the Kurds and it would serve as yet another excuse for him to crack down on them, round up dissidents and start executing people to show his new friends in Moscow how seriously he’s taking the attack. And if a possible external threat from Russia as a response is played up in the media, Erdogan could further solidify public support for his purge.

    Sounds plausible. There’s a terrorist group in Turkey called the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons that’s been very active recently — for instance, they bombed a soccer stadiium in Istanbul on December 10th. According to this article, the bombing “took 44 lives, 36 of them policemen, and wounded more than 155 triggered unprecedented outrage in the country. The bloodshed of innocent, defenseless people, among them a 19-year-old medical school freshman, touched the hearts of ordinary Turks. The swift crackdown on Kurdish and pro-Kurdish activists by the Turkish government following the Istanbul bombing has set off a nationalist, anti-Kurdish frenzy in Turkey.”

  3. Erdogan may try to pin this on the Kurds.

    But no matter what, I don’t see how a Turk with police credentials assassinating a Russian ambassador can in any way lead to Turkey somehow obligating anyone to come to their aid under article 5 of the UN Charter.

    I realize that Muslims have been crying “Islamophobia” since their prophet attacked the pagans of Mecca and shrieked like stuck pigs (yes, the analogy is deliberate) when the pagans responded in kind. Muslims are always by definition of an unfair attack because when they try to steal something like Al Andalus it’s just unfair and “Islamophobic” for the Spaniards to try and keep it. Or take it back.

    Seriously, it’s in one of the Al Qaeda fatwas in their list of butt-hurt why the west owes them.

    So, seriously, if Russia retaliates against Turkey because one of their cops killed their ambassador that constitutes an “attack?”

    Don’t think so. It’s time to stop playing along with this Muslim mental illness that anyone who doesn’t politely offer their throat to the knife is attacking Islam.

  4. The 1914 comparison is mistaken. No rational actor is going to commit suicide in order to uphold a provision in an old treaty. Getting into a major nuclear war is suicide for both parties. That dynamic applies to Putin as well as the West.

    Though the Iranians with their 12th Imam might* be the exception… only a fanatic contemplates suicide as a tactic. But then, fanaticism isn’t rational.

    *reportedly, Khomieni loves his luxuries and such do not embrace suicide.

  5. Meanwhile a jihadist uses an assault truck to murder 9 and injury 50 (the initial count) in Germany.

  6. At least it wasn’t in a car dealer show room; to be murdered by an armed Islamic policeman surrounded by automobiles, that would have been unimaginable.

    What will Putin do?

    We’ll have to wait and see.

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