International Migrants Day

In this mailing: - Judith Bergman: International Migrants Day - Burak Bekdil: Are Turkish Cypriots Done with Ankara? [] [International Migrants Day]( by Judith Bergman • February 25, 2020 at 5:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - The project of multiculturalism in Europe, including the integration of people from the Middle East and Africa, has fared extremely poorly until now and no amount of denial from the UN or the World Economic Forum, including leveling accusations of "hate speech" and "fake news" at its critics can alter that fact. - Many migrants have made it clear that they have no wish either to contribute to, or become part of, the European societies into which they have migrated. Parallel societies... have sprung up all over Western Europe. - In Germany, authorities believe that it will take decades to get rid of the Middle Eastern family crime clans that have spread their criminal activities throughout the country. Sweden also is reeling from the many shootings and explosions that migrant crime gangs are responsible for throughout the country. - None of these grave issues was even hinted at by the UN's and the World Economic Forum's "experts" on migration in their statements on International Migrants Day. Instead, they encouraged states to clamp down on critics in the name of "hate speech". What are they afraid of? It is unfortunate that top United Nations bureaucrats and the World Economic Forum chose International Migrants Day to propagandize, instead of engaging honestly and openly with the problematic issues that migration has wrought, especially in Europe. Pictured: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, on January 23, 2020. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images) When the UN marked International Migrants Day on December 18, 2019, the theme was "social cohesion." António Vitorino, director general of the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) wrote in an op-ed entitled "Social Cohesion: Recognizing Migration is a Benefit that Works for All": "This year on International Migrants Day, the IOM has chosen to focus on social cohesion, in recognition not just of migrants, but of the communities in which they can and do flourish... "Too often, when we speak of migration, we debate whether it is good or bad, costs too much or pays out too little... But to view migration as an accounting practice is to reduce it... It is an evolving...yet integral part of our societies, enriching them in multiple, intangible ways... [Continue Reading Article]( [] [Are Turkish Cypriots Done with Ankara?]( by Burak Bekdil • February 25, 2020 at 4:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - For the Turks, Turkey is the homeland and Cyprus is the "baby homeland." - In January 2018, several thousand Turkish Cypriots marched against what they said was Turkey's unwanted influence that has emboldened hard-right groups to try to silence opposing views. - Erdoğan's government has been generously sending Turkish taxpayers' money to religious foundations, associations, NGOs and Quranic schools in Turkish Cyprus via the Turkish Aid Delegation. Turkey also built a (Sunni Muslim) theology academy at the same time as it ignored local criticism against it. - "There have been mosque constructions in all areas in northern Cyprus, including former Greek Orthodox churches. All that effort has upset Turkish Cypriots." — Yusuf Kanlı, a prominent Turkish Cypriot columnist, to Gatestone Institute, February 18, 2020. Between 2002 and 2016, the Turkish government built at least 39 new mosques in the Turkish section of Cyprus (pop. 326,000) -- including the Hala Sultan mosque in Nicosia (pictured), which can house a congregation of 3,000. (Photo by Matthieu Clavel/AFP via Getty Images) A famous tweet by an unknown Turk and shows how pathetically crazy some Turks can get in their never-ending wars with the rest of the world: "We should bomb Turkish Cyprus to show the world what a psychopathic nation we are. The world should ponder what the crazy Turks would do to the others if they did this to their 'baby'" -- @spleenistanbul "Turkish Cyprus" here is the breakaway statelet of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), recognized only by Turkey -- also known among the Turks as the "baby homeland." Since Turkey invaded the northern third of the island in 1974 in response to a coup by Greek Cypriots that aimed to annex Cyprus to Greece, the "Cyprus cause" has been emblematic in reflecting Turkey's militarist and nationalist sentiment. [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. You are subscribed to this list as {EMAIL} You can change how you receive these emails: [Update your subscription preferences]( or [Unsubscribe from this list]( [Gatestone Institute]( 14 East 60 St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10022