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‘Do Not Take Jews and Christians as Allies’: Anti-Christian Advertisements Pop Up in Turkish City as Jihadis Continue to Slaughter Kurds in Syria

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By Will Maule
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October 25, 2019

A series of anti-Christian and anti-Jewish advertisements have appeared in the Turkish city of Konya.

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The ads encourage Muslims not to befriend Christians or Jews by quoting chapter 5 verse 51 of the Quran, which reads: “Do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies.”

“They are [in fact] allies of one another,” the passage continues. “And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.”

Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi reklam panolarına "Yahudileri ve Hristiyanları dost edinmeyin. Allah zalimler topluluğunu doğru yola eriştirmez" ayeti yazıldı.
(Maide Suresi – 51. Ayet) pic.twitter.com/4ewkPh1zSe

— Kumtemir Ahmet (@kumtemir_ahmet) October 21, 2019

Hateful bus stop sign in Konya: Do not become friends with Jews and Christians.

This on an official space of the city's AKP municipality; is their any accountability? Can the Turkish gov make sure these hateful signs are removed as soon as possible? https://t.co/V7KoqWnTDG

— Louis Fishman (@Istanbultelaviv) October 21, 2019

Eventually, after numerous complaints, the advertisements were removed by the Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Persecution watchdog Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) warned that this anti-Christian sentiment was no new thing. “It is not very unusual, we have witnessed similar incidents in other parts of Turkey,” the charity noted to Premier UK.

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The removal was a “step in the right direction” but certainly “didn’t indicate a significant improvement” in the treatment of Christians across the Muslim-majority country.

Bolstering the opinion of many who see Turkey’s incursion into Northern Syria as something of an Islamic jihad, President Recep Erdogan was recently captured on camera whipping up supporters at a mosque, as devotees shouted “Bless your Holy War!” and “The Last Caliph of Islam.”

"The Last Caliph of Islam" a man shouts while another says "Bless your Holy War" in this video of #Erdogan today in a mosque after #Turkey's President framed #Syria offensive as part of religious war against non-believers.

Erdogan is hell-bent on radicalizing Turkey. pic.twitter.com/hQQW8gJ6Za

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) October 25, 2019

Killings at the hands of the Islamists are becoming increasingly frequent.

In footage published by the British-based organization “The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,” Turkish-backed proxy forces were seen desecrating the corpse of a female Kurdish YPG fighter they had captured during fighting outside the city of Kobane.

“The corpses of PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party) and PYD (Democratic Union Party) pigs under the feet of the Mujahideen of Faylaq (Corps) al-Majd,” the man filming declared, before the group start chanting “Allahu Akbar!”

The SDF is under fire now from Turkish proxies just north of Tal Tamir in northern Syria, where David Eubank and the Free Burma Rangers were starting a food distribution for IDPs, he tells me.

In others words – there is STILL no ceasefire. pic.twitter.com/OsBX6zDc9a

— Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) October 24, 2019

In his latest action, President Erdogan called on the US to hand over the leader of the Kurdish-led forces (SDF), Commander Mazloum Abdi, just as the SDF begins to engage in talks with the US and Russia about how to stem Turkey’s military advance.

Despite a ceasefire being agreed by Vice President Mike Pence last week, the temporary reprieve in violence lasted less than 24 hours. Yesterday, the SDF insisted that Turkey has repeatedly violated the agreement.

“Despite our forces’ commitment to the ceasefire decision and the withdrawal of our forces from the entire ceasefire area, the Turkish state and the terrorist factions allied to it are still violating the ceasefire process,” they said, according to Reuters. “Our forces are still clashing.”

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