Turkey Accuses Sweden of Genocide

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Swedes accused of genocide

Aftenposten
December 14, 2006

A documentary film broadcast by Turkish state television earlier this week claimed that Sweden systematically murdered their Sámi and Romany population until the 1980s.

Sweden was called a "barbarian country without freedom of expression" in the program, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports on its web site.

The program's repeat showing has been halted.

"I have never seen anything like it. The program was distorted and full of lies from start to finish," said Turkish journalist Yavuz Baydar.

The Swedish Foreign Ministry has no plans at present to file an official protest.


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Turkish documentary slanders Sweden

The Local
December 14, 2006

A documentary shown by Turkey's state broadcaster, TRT, earlier this week depicts Sweden as a barbarian land responsible for the genocide of Sami and Roma peoples. Sweden's acts of ethnic cleansing are said to have continued until the 1980s.

"I have never seen anything like it. From start to finish the programme was twisted and full of lies," Turkish journalist Yavuz Baydar told Sveriges Radio.

Kerstin Brunnberg from Sveriges Radio was interviewed in connection with the film. In the documentary her voice is dubbed into Turkish and she confirms Sweden's systematic destruction of the Sami peoples. Brunnberg has described the interview as "absurd".

The film has come in for severe criticism from various quarters in Turkey. The Swedish embassy in Ankara and the Turkish foreign ministry have both criticised the content of the film, according to Sveriges Radio.

TRT had planned to show the film a total of eight times but has now removed it from its schedule until further notice.

Yavuz Baydar thinks that the documentary may be the work of ultra-nationalists intent on keeping Turkey out of the EU. One tactic is to portray EU member states in a very unflattering light, and in this case Sweden has borne the brunt of the film maker's ire.

"It is portrayed as an ugly country where it is impossible to live, a country characterised by tremendous violence, a country where minorities live in fear," said Baydar.


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[Strengthandhonour]

Barbaric and without freedom fo expression? look who is talking. Perhaps the very own Turks are in denial about their own genocide and are looking for someone else to blame.

[Susi]

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[Kernunnos]

What is sure is that Sweden genocides its pride and its nationalists are jailed and persecuted.

There is a lot of rot in Sweden, even if it has nothing to do with turkish propaganda.

From our side we should however be happy that in Turkey there are still powerful forces willing to keep it out of EU.

I should be quite happy if Turkey went openly nationalistic or, better, islamist: in the latter case all the projects of unifyng "demcratized" middle east and north africa with Europe would miserably be exposed as the lies they are.

Turks should be more intelligent in exposing Europe flaws, however.

Anti EU turks should simply point out at our decadent sexual and family mores to wean out the turkish moslem populace from this dream.

I had a conversation with a pakistani moslem immigrant about the true nature of italian communism, of which he was a supporter, thanks to the labour unions.

I told him that his newly found friend and comrades were also responsible for homosexual marriages, sexual freedom, destruction of the family, destruction of the father authority (they will keep you from forbidding anything to your kids, especially your daughters will be going around in miniskirts and you wil have to keep shut).

Well, he was shocked for good.

We should try to shock the turks too.

[Pagandawn]

Would be fun to see this docu.

Genocide? Hard to believe that. The sami people were treated in a very shameful way for hundreds of years. Their culture and language were under great oppression.

But genocide? No I don't think so...

[Menydh]

For some reason I've never been able to associate the Saami with the Swedes. More with the Norwegians and the Finns, even if for different reasons.

Originally Posted by Breha

I had a conversation with a pakistani moslem immigrant about the true nature of italian communism, of which he was a supporter, thanks to the labour unions.

I told him that his newly found friend and comrades were also responsible for homosexual marriages, sexual freedom, destruction of the family, destruction of the father authority (they will keep you from forbidding anything to your kids, especially your daughters will be going around in miniskirts and you wil have to keep shut).

Well, he was shocked for good.

We should try to shock the turks too.

It is unlikely that they succumb in big numbers to the same problems of a liberal society. They being minorities, rejecting what they pereceive as part of an attempt to assimilate them is likely to become a sign of identity.