A while ago, there was a little bitterness between me and a Serbian member Slavica over the Serbian role in the mass killings and atrocities committed during the war in former Yugoslavia.
As expected, we Turks instantly support Palestinians against the Jews, Bosnians against the Serbs and Azeris against Armenians. We also don´t call the presence of our troops in Cyprus as an act of invasion. We show all the healthy examples of how biased a nation can be when it comes to her own interests. This is not peculiar to Turkey.
In matters like this, powers that be tend to declare a common enemy, the shadow of Satan on Earth who is capable of doing any malice. This person is collectively rendered indefensible and his very presence sets a basis of justification for any further military action to be held by those powers. Remember Hitler, Saddam, Milosevic and Castro just to name a few. This way or another, these people were involved in actions or plans against the major powers in the world. Doubtlessly sinful, the deeds of these men were written by their captors who were themselves far from being innocent. Logically, there might have been many omissions, exaggerations, fabrication and bias in the way they are presented to the masses. Nevertheless, you can´t even defend this suspicion. In some parts of Europe (I don´t know how many) it is illegal to deny the Holocaust. During the war in Iraq, we witnessed journalists losing their jobs on declaring they did not share the suspicion over Iraq and Saddam. Likewise, there might be other hidden realities about the war in Bosnia. We don´t know everything, we just believe in what we are presented with.
The punch-line is, there is a well-known strategy of satanizing the enemy. I can´t even say all the major examples of that is done by the West in fear of wide spread protests within Turkish Class.
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