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"group of small boys and girls were stripped naked and hosed down with what was described as scalding hot water. When one of the children complained, the attendant was shown hitting him on the head with a fist-sized stone" - reports Turkish journalist Amberin Zaman on 28 October 2005 about Turkish abuses of orphans.
Nemesis News Editorial, 31 October 2005:
While many argue that Hitler and other Nazis had learned various genocidal techniques from the Turkish perpetrators of the Armenian genocide ( 1915-1923 ), the opposite statement might be true as much.
As The New York Times reports on 29 September 2005, mentally ill citizens are being tortured and starved in government-funded Turkish hospitals and orphanages. Through electroshock and starvation, many disabled children have died, though exact numbers are not known. The director of a human rights group, Eric Rosenthal, is quoted as saying that visitors to the Turkish mental health hospitals “saw children who were essentially abandoned, starving, ties down to their beds.” The use of the electroshock without the use of anesthesia, which prevents patients from suffering, is used as punishment against the disabled, as the Turkish doctors explain.
In the last 90 years, millions of people have been “punished” to death in Turkey for not being a Turk, Muslim or a “good” citizen. The idea of a “pure” Turkish nation has led Turkish politicians to change the names of 12,000 geographic names, destroy thousands of Christian monuments and even rename scientific names of animals.
The question that arises is whether the torture and starvation of disabled people in Turkey is done by genocidal intent to make the nation more “pure.” The historic precedent, in any case, shows that the mentally ill have been victims of racist governments, such as the case of the genocide of the disabled by Nazi Germany.
Interestingly, one of the techniques of Nazi physicians of killing the disabled was also starvation. The Nazi murderers called the ill “useless eaters.” While Hitler ordered the destruction of the “useless eaters” in a careful way, euphemistically instructing that “persons…who are incurable…be accorded a mercy death,” Turkish doctors do not even bother to find medical arguments for their abuses.
Human rights activists have not been permitted to “see the worst wards.” Could there be something worse than ill children being electrified to death? In Turkey, perhaps.
Thanks God, Turkey decided to investigate the abuses. As Amberin Zaman writes on Oct 28 2005 , "[o]n Thursday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the actions 'a crime against humanity' and vowed that 'those who are responsible will be punished.' Hope the criminals will be punished, but it seems Turkish torture of orphans has a long history and only international concern brought attention.
Nemesis News Editorial, 31 October 2005:
While many argue that Hitler and other Nazis had learned various genocidal techniques from the Turkish perpetrators of the Armenian genocide ( 1915-1923 ), the opposite statement might be true as much.
As The New York Times reports on 29 September 2005, mentally ill citizens are being tortured and starved in government-funded Turkish hospitals and orphanages. Through electroshock and starvation, many disabled children have died, though exact numbers are not known. The director of a human rights group, Eric Rosenthal, is quoted as saying that visitors to the Turkish mental health hospitals “saw children who were essentially abandoned, starving, ties down to their beds.” The use of the electroshock without the use of anesthesia, which prevents patients from suffering, is used as punishment against the disabled, as the Turkish doctors explain.
In the last 90 years, millions of people have been “punished” to death in Turkey for not being a Turk, Muslim or a “good” citizen. The idea of a “pure” Turkish nation has led Turkish politicians to change the names of 12,000 geographic names, destroy thousands of Christian monuments and even rename scientific names of animals.
The question that arises is whether the torture and starvation of disabled people in Turkey is done by genocidal intent to make the nation more “pure.” The historic precedent, in any case, shows that the mentally ill have been victims of racist governments, such as the case of the genocide of the disabled by Nazi Germany.
Interestingly, one of the techniques of Nazi physicians of killing the disabled was also starvation. The Nazi murderers called the ill “useless eaters.” While Hitler ordered the destruction of the “useless eaters” in a careful way, euphemistically instructing that “persons…who are incurable…be accorded a mercy death,” Turkish doctors do not even bother to find medical arguments for their abuses.
Human rights activists have not been permitted to “see the worst wards.” Could there be something worse than ill children being electrified to death? In Turkey, perhaps.
Thanks God, Turkey decided to investigate the abuses. As Amberin Zaman writes on Oct 28 2005 , "[o]n Thursday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the actions 'a crime against humanity' and vowed that 'those who are responsible will be punished.' Hope the criminals will be punished, but it seems Turkish torture of orphans has a long history and only international concern brought attention.