THE ss. STRUMA ATROCITY

Must one suffer Erdogan's 'mug - shot' appended to every report of his unrelenting anti-semitic expletives? Why not devote the 'wanted space' to recall Turkish double dealing throughout World War Two - as recorded in Franz von Papen's Memoirs - until it decided to jump onto the winning Allied side

Up to April 30, 1944! it religiously supplied chromium to Nazi Germany and it took until August 2, 1944! for the Turkish National Assembly to approve severance of diplomatic relations with the Nazis !

Just as the Turks continue to sweep the Armenian genocide under their oriental carpets, so have their Leaders escaped indictment for their complicity in the mass murder of innocent Jews in the infamous ‘Struma affair’: A war crime and crime against humanity - par excellence!

The 180-ton cattle boat left Constanza, Romania 68 years ago (Dec. 12, 1941) with 765 Jews bound for Haifa. Despite engine problems, the ship reached Istanbul, Turkey - where landing privileges were refused. The Struma was quarantined in the harbor for 10 weeks. On Feb. 23, 1942, the Turkish police cut the Struma's anchor and towed it into the Black Sea, where it was set adrift without a working engine. A torpedo (from Russian submarine SHCH-213, commanded by Lt. Col. Isaev) sank the Struma six miles from shore early the next morning.

It was the largest maritime loss of civilian life during World War II.

More than 100 children perished.

Olivia Manning, on deck of a British Royal Navy ship cruising around Istanbul harbor, in January 1942, espied a wretched ship: "The ship was the Struma", she later wrote: “The images of gaunt, ghostlike men and women from the Nazi death camps were not yet stamped on the world's consciousness: The hair-raising atrocities were proceeding largely behind closed gates at the end of 1941".
However, "in the harbor of one of the world's largest cities, though, a place teeming with diplomats, journalists and spies, the panorama of Jewish suffering was visible to anyone who cared or dared to look”.

SWASTIKA MASQUERADE

In ‘A Brief History Of Neckties’ [Time Magazine - June 23, 2008] one learns that one of the few fashion accessories to have survived 400 years of social change is - The Tie - and that in 1924 an American tailor [Langdorf] patented the tie’s modern look.
During the Clinton era ‘tie sales hit a 1.3 billion dollar peak that in 1995 commenced a steady decline’ as the dot.com boom threatened to obliterate neckwear entirely: Indeed, mid-2008 saw closing down of the ‘American Men’s Dress Furnishings Association’! The highlight of the piece shows an un-tied AhMADinejad denouncing the necktie as ‘a symbol of Western decadence’!
In Robert Waites’1977 masterpiece, “The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler”, one notes that Mahmoud’s idol also had a similar fear of ‘neckties’ – a term appearing in the index under G for Games viz: “Among the many childish games Hitler played was a form of substitute suicide. He disliked tying his own necktie and had his valet do it for him. He would hold his breath and count slowly to ten. If the faithful Linge could finish the knot before Hitler had finished counting, the Fuhrer was greatly relieved”!
So what is one to make of the sartorial game played by Anwar Sadat during his 1977 visit to Jerusalem, viz: the GPO press photograph - published alongside the ‘JPUpfront’ piece “With undue credit” [March 20, 2009] – which displays Sadat wearing a necktie adorned with ‘Swastikas’!
It was not until 1980 that the French monthly ‘Lui’ managed to obtain an interview with 'Him', wherein Sadat confessed that after he was informed about his tie’s symbolism ‘he called for his valet to bring him the tie; upon realizing the significance of its pattern', he said, “I never wore it again”!.

So spake the Man voted during that period by ‘Time’ as one of the world’s ‘Best dressed man’. The follow-up question 'Lui' failed to ask is - "how did Ahmed, Sadat's valet know which tie to bring forth"?