http://www.rozanehmagazine.com/NoveDec05/AZPARTIV.html
excerpts:
(1) Translating Nazi Literature to Turkish
Perhaps the most alarming development in the Republic of Azerbaijan and
Turkey are attempts by Grey Wolves and pan-Turanian ideologues to spread
racialist hate literature. There are strong indications that modern-day
pan-Turanian ideologies (the Grey wolves in Turkey and the Republic of
Azerbaijan in particular) are “discovering” Adolph Hitler’s manual
of racial
hate entitled “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle).
Sales of the book are reputed to be high according to Associated News
writer
James C. Helicke (see web References). To be fair, the reasons for its
interest among Turks go beyond simple pan-Turanian expansionism. According
to Helicke, many Turks are feeling the frustration with growing
pan-Kurdish
separatism and are critical of Israel, the United States and the European
Union. To the observer this would appear strange, since on the surface at
least, Turkey is an ally to both Israel and the west. Helicke quotes Umit
Ozdag (writer of the Turkish daily, Aksam):
“Turks feel ill-treated by the West…Turks think they are being
exploited.
They are angry with the demands of the European Union and United States.
But
those who anger them the most are Kurdish nationalists…Turks who think
they
are being stabbed in the back read Hitler. That is a ... very dangerous
development."
It is precisely in this climate of distrust and conspiracy mills that
racist
hate literature may be able to prosper, as it did in 1920s Germany. Like
Nazism, Pan-Turanianism depends on the constant repetition of its false
ideology to spread and solidify its messages.
(a) Similarity to Nazi Propaganda.
There are striking similarities between present-day Grey Wolf
anti-Armenian
literature and the anti-Jewish Nazi literature of the 1930s. This is the
cliché “stab in the back” theme in which the evil swarthy Armenian is
the
culprit (below left). Note the similarity of this poster to the
Nazi-depicted “cowardly Jew” who “stabs the valiant German warrior
in the
back” (below right). It is no secret that hate groups create despicably
false images of the “other” to disseminate their poisonous agenda.
