Trump Says that He is a Big Fan of President Erdogan while Turkey Persecutes Christians
By Julio Severo
The November 13, 2019 meeting between
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump at the
White House provoked concern about the passivity of the U.S. government
regarding Turkey persecuting Christians.
“I’m a big fan of the president; I have to
tell you that,” Trump said of Erdogan while speaking at a press conference at
the White House.
During the press conference, one reporter
asked Erdogan about the plight of Christians who have suffered during the Turkish
invasion in Syria.
“The ones remaining on the Syrian side of
the territory will see their worship practices restored and revived in a
special manner, they’re receiving health care; they’re receiving humanitarian
aid in every aspect possible,” Erdogan responded.
Yet, a Christian pastor in the Syrian city
of Kobane told a different story.
“Under the pretext of fighting against the
Kurds, a lot of churches have been targeted and destroyed, and many Christians
were forcibly displaced from their hometowns,” Pastor Omar Firaz told CBN News.
“We’ve had an economic relationship, a
military relationship, a genuine friendship with Turkey. but we do not know who
Turkey is anymore,” said Senator James Lankford (R-OK).
Perhaps
Lankford does not know, but Christians, especially Armenian Christians, know
very well who Turkey is.
One
of the largest modern genocides of Christians
was committed by Turkey. About 100 years ago in Turkey, an estimated 1.5
million Armenian Christians in 66 towns and 2,500 villages were massacred;
2,350 churches and monasteries were looted, and 1,500 schools and colleges were
destroyed. Nevertheless, to appease Turkey’s wrath, Trump
has avoided to say that the Armenian Genocide was a genocide. America does not
recognize the Armenian Genocide because Turkish Muslims hate to hear about
their crimes against Christians.
If Russian President Vladimir Putin had
said “I’m a big fan of president Erdogan,” U.S. Bible teachers would immediately
deliver apocalyptic
sermons about Russia and Turkey in a Gog and Magog alliance against Israel.
The U.S. has every reason and power to
condemn Turkey for centuries of persecution against Christians and no reason to
worry: Turkey has no nuclear weapons against the U.S. But Turkey has 50
American nuclear weapons against Russia.
In the Cold War, the U.S. installed 50 nuclear
bombs in Turkey to fight the Soviet Union, making both nations hijacked by strange
interests. Because of this hijacking, the U.S. spent the last 70 years “hindered”
from condemning Turkey about its genocide against Armenian Christians.
The Soviet Union does not exist anymore,
but American nuclear bombs continue in Turkey threatening Russia.
When Russia tries better relations with
Turkey, its objective is to neutralize the nuclear threat.
So Turkey, which is historically a
genocidal threat to Christians, is not threatened by the U.S. and its massive nuclear
power. On the contrary, the U.S. uses Turkey to threaten Russia.
Bible teachers should have some apocalyptic
messages about the U.S. nuclearly empowering Islamic Turkey against Christians,
and Russia is today the largest Orthodox Christian nation in the world. Armenian
Christians who suffered genocide from Turkey were also Orthodox Christians.
It makes no sense for the U.S., the
largest Protestant nation in the world, to use an Islamic nation with a history
of Christian genocide to threaten an Orthodox Christian nation.
Why doesn’t the U.S. nuclearly threaten
Islamic Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which are threats to Christians?
Portuguese version of this article: Trump
diz que é um grande fã do presidente Erdogan enquanto a Turquia persegue
cristãos
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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