Kurdish Opposition Leader Demirtas: 'Erdogan Wants a Caliphate'.

Kurdish Opposition Leader Demirtas: 'Erdogan Wants a Caliphate'. (Spiegel).

Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtas, 43, says that his HDP party wants a cease-fire in the ongoing battle between Turkish troops and Kurds in southeastern Turkey. But, he says, Turkish President Erdogan isn't willing to listen.

SPIEGEL: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is hoping that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be able to solve Europe's refugee crisis. Is he able to?

Demirtas: I wish he could. But I fear he is creating much larger problems. If the Turkish government continues its war against the Kurds, then millions of Turkish citizens could seek asylum in Europe.

SPIEGEL: Would Angela Merkel have been better off not negotiating with Erdogan?


Demirtas: No, but she has to be careful not to disregard European principles. She can't remain silent when a country seeking to join the EU bombs its own towns and cities.

SPIEGEL: The government says it is exclusively pursuing terrorists.


Demirtas: The war is primarily focused on civilians that Erdogan suspects of supporting the PKK. Almost 400,000 people have had to leave their homes. The southeast of Turkey resembles Syria.

SPIEGEL: Even HDP supporters are critical and say you should have distanced yourselves from PKK violence earlier and more decisively.

Demirtas: I did. Erdogan and his henchmen in the media didn't want to hear anything about it. They are consciously defaming me as a terrorist.

SPIEGEL: Not long ago, Erdogan was working towards a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish conflict. Why do you think he has changed course?

Demirtas: He's striving for absolute power in Turkey. Erdogan wants a caliphate. We Kurds are in his way. Erdogan can't stop us politically, so he is denouncing us as terrorists.

SPIEGEL: What role will the Kurds have in the new reorganization of the Middle East?


Demirtas: The Kurds are stepping onto the stage of world history. In northern Iraq, they are well on their way to an independent state and in Syria they are successfully fighting for federal rights. In Turkey, the Kurds are pushing for democratization. Read the full interview here.

Hmmm..........Turkey is already the center of the 'Caliphate' ....since 2014.

The most prominent spiritual leader for the Muslim Brotherhood is none other than Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and this Sunday he declared that Turkey is where the Caliphate will be established.

In an interview with TV Turkia Qaradawi declared that:

“We came to Turkey to assess the Fourth Assembly of the Union of Muslim Scholars in Istanbul, capital of the Islamic Caliphate!”

Qaradawi added that:

“Turkey is the Caliphate State, and Istanbul is its capital … Turkey unites religion and the world, Arab (Wahhabist Sunnis) and Persian (Shiites), Asia and Africa, and it (the Caliphate) should be based upon this nation (Turkey)”.

Muslim Brotherhood Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi's favorite Abul Fotouh is leading the race, and we all know how it go's at the tracks.

Muslim Brotherhood Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi's favorite Abul Fotouh is leading the race, and we all know how it go's at the tracks.(AA).HT: Ibloga.Egypt started a ban on all activities of presidential campaigning dubbed “election silence” on Monday that will last for two days before the landmark voting kicks off on May 23-24. According to the rules laid by the Supreme Presidential Election Commission, candidates are prohibited from any public activities that can influence the voters’ decisions before casting their ballots in the first presidential poll that follows the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak. Media platforms are also subject to the ban. They are prohibited from airing any publicity advertisements for presidential candidates or conducting any interviews with them.
A runoff for the landmark polls will be held on June 16-17 if no single candidate wins an absolute majority. The country’s next president will be formally named on June 21. The main contenders in the elections are former Arab League chief Amr Moussa; Islamist Abdul Muniem Abul Fotouh; Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi; last prime minister of Mubarak’s era Ahmed Shafiq and leftist leader Hamdeen Sabbahi. Sketchy polls taken by a government-funded think tank and the cabinet’s research division show Mursi trailing behind moderate Islamist Abul Fotouh, Mussa, Shafiq and Sabbahi. Mursi lost the expatriate vote in most countries, but received a boost on Sunday after the consulate in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah announced that he won with almost 27,000 votes, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported. Most expatriate voters are registered in conservative Gulf countries and are expected to give Mursi a victory in the overseas vote. The full results for that vote have not been announced.Earlier on Sunday, Mursi warned against any attempt to tamper with Egypt’s presidential poll as thousands of supporters rallied across the country on the last day of campaigning.
In the nighttime rally in Cairo, Mursi said anyone attempting to “revert (back to the old regime) or forge the people’s will” would be “trampled and burnt by popular anger.” Similar rallies took place in more than a dozen cities around the country. Mursi did not elaborate on who might forge the election, but vaguely mentioned loyalists of the former president, according to AFP. The military, which took charge after Mubarak’s ouster, has pledged a fair election. Although, Mursi said the military was still “loved” for not siding with Mubarak during the Jan. 25 uprising; yet, he told them that their role in a new constitution “must express the people’s will.” Hmmmmm....................Exactly as i said before....i hate to say 'told you so'.MFS - The Other News 24 Feb: Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi, one of the most widely respected Sunni Muslim clerics in the Arab world, has described Abul Fotouh as the “leading candidate” in a field including former Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, a liberal and former foreign minister. Later i pointed out with the rejection of the other candidates that he was still 'in the race'. Nothing 'Changes' under the Muslim Brotherhood of Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi. WAKE UP SMELL THE COFFEE!Read the full story here.