Turkey -
"The Young Turks" show
"The Young Turks" show
- "The Young Turks"
political talk show (founded 2002).
-
Turkish-American
Cenk Uygur.
- Cenk Uygur
is an interesting character.
A brave ex-Muslim atheist
(hurray)
who is however left-wing,
anti-Israel and
anti-counterjihad (boo).
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I always thought he
picked the disgustingly offensive name
"The Young Turks" for his show
in 2002
out of ignorance.
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But of course, thinking about it, that makes no sense.
How could a highly-political person of Turkish background
not know all about the real
Young Turks and the genocide they carried out?
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And then I discovered that he denied the Armenian genocide.
His choice of name
now seems to be something more sinister.
Armenian genocide denial
Historical Fact or Falsehood?, Cenk Uygur, The Daily Pennsylvanian, November 20, 1991.
Also
here.
As a politically active young student,
Cenk Uygur denied the Armenian genocide.
Letter from
Cenk Uygur to Salon, 16 June 1999,
again denied the Armenian genocide.
Armenians regard Cenk Uygur as a genocide denier.
Here
Armenians protest a talk by Cenk Uygur, Feb 2012.
He
failed to address the issue.
Are you starting to find
their name
creepy yet?
Awful politics
The show and its hosts have awful politics in general.
- The "Innocence of Muslims" controversy of 2012:
- During the
"Innocence of Muslims"
film controversy of 2012,
the alleged "secular"
Cenk Uygur, 12 Sept 2012,
claims he would in theory support a movie critical of Islam.
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But oddly, he fails to
name any actual such movies that he supports.
He then spends all his time attacking the "Innocence of Muslims" movie and its makers:
"These people are despicable."
- The Brussels bombings, 2016:
- Cenk Uygur, 22 Mar 2016,
has a truly offensive response to the Brussels jihad massacre.
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He claims it is "revenge" for some unspecified alleged "crimes" of the West.
He says:
"Bombings in the US, then Iraq, Syria, Lybia, then Paris, Turkey, Belgium. An eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind."
ISIS loves leftists who come up with this stuff.
- Some good replies,
including:
"hey Cenk, quiz for you; who committed the first great genocide of 20th century. Clue: think of the name of your show".
Aug 2019: Young Turks host
Hasan Piker mocks Navy SEAL vet Dan Crenshaw for
losing an eye in Afghanistan
in 2012.
Piker openly supports the jihadis that attacked Crenshaw.
He says
"America deserved 9/11".
It makes sense that a "Young Turk" would support genocidal Islamic jihadis.
Cenk Uygur, 17 Sept 2024, is angry about
Israel's brilliant
pager attack on Hezbollah.
He claims Israel is starting "an offensive war"
and is "a danger to the world".
Amazing how this "freethinking" atheist just believes the same bigoted shite about Israel
that everyone in Turkey believes.
My reply.
Terrorist and killers who like the "Young Turks" show
More than once, terrorists and killers have turned out to be
fans of the "Young Turks" show.
A cheap shot?
Not really.
Only giving the left a dose of their own medicine.
The left furiously blamed Sarah Palin for the
Tucson shooting,
even though there was zero evidence the shooter was a Palin fan.
Not zero evidence with the following, though.
Elliot Rodger,
the
May 2014 California spree shooter,
was a
fan
of the "Young Turks" show.
Arcan Cetin,
the
Sept 2016 Cascade Mall shooter,
was a fan
of the "Young Turks" show.
I take on a guy
calling himself "The Young Turk"
and yet claiming to be against genocide.
