"Mustafa Kemal [...] Mussolini is his first disciple and I am his second disciple" - Adolf Hitler

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Apr 12, 2009 at 10:51

yasemin , true to her trick of deflecting attention from the real Turkish problems she as a Turk is unable to face attacks America instead :

> ADL writes;

Press Release Extremism White Supremacists Plan 'Family Friendly' Events In Honor Of Hitler's Birthday ... etc.<

Will they also invite all the anti-semites and enthusiasts of Hitler in Turkey where his "Mein Kampf" (Kavgam) is the bestselling book? ... No ??? ... I see. It would be too hard since 99 % of Turks would have to attend the events.

" Hitler and Ataturk - Parallel Lives" and friendly Nazi-Turkish relations between 1933-1944 is a fine subject for a Ph.D. thesis, I agree. But to make a long story short let's just quote one thing from Falih Rıfkı Atay's book of recollections Çankaya (1961) . He was an influential journalist, writer and close associate of Ataturk and his successors. In the book (p.319) he writes :

" On his 50the birthday we visited Hitler with a Turkish delegation. Hitler, possessed by his mad pride, said : "Mustafa Kemal ( ...) Mussolini is his first disciple and I am his second disciple."

See the German article where next to the quote also the wild racist views and practices introduced by Kemal are reviewed.

http://www.nahost-politik.de/tuerkei/rasse.htm

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