Sour losers and it won't help them either.
Their candidate realised that this wasn't a loss, it was the first time to got close to 50% support in an election. He said as much right after the results became public.
Calradianın Bilgesi 说:
It's not about benefits. Like I said at the start, it's a question of politics and morals. You don't NOT do the right thing because people that are demonstrably wrong don't want you to do it. Similar to how you don't give in to terrorist demands after an attack. Ideally.
I don't know how can I be any more clear, it's not about caring about the offence Turkish people feel. It should be all about how to achieve a desired change in Turkey. If MPs voting on an Armenian Genocide resolution do not care about improving the lives of Armenians in Turkey, that resolution is honestly not sincere at all. Countries act in certain ways to change the situation in a country. They especially do it for countries where there are significant human rights violations. An increase of human rights violation in another country has been an important consideration in legislation, and it should be.
Also I'm sure there also was a bit of spite attached to the start of this as Erdogan is a major scapegoat right now in public perception here. If someone had brought this up five years ago it would've silently been brushed aside and realpolitik would've won the day with everyone nodding their heads in a sad way, lamenting the loss of life and nothing else.
Now though? After the self-imposed re-ignition of the Kurdish question that isn't a Kurdish question anymore according to Erdogan, after the Böhmermann lawsuit? After the frankly disgusting EU-Turkey deal about refugees? MPs are people too, and not above spite.
That was what I meant by "the resolutions are often politically motivated" earlier.
Alright, got a bit of time.
To elaborate my point a bit.
Exactly it's political. But not in the seemingly malignant way you seemed to imply all the time.
Nobody really gives a ****. Or more civilised, I doubt anyone of them actually genuinely cares apart from some weird folks who care or pretend to care about everything anyway and are thus un believable in the first place. It's about profile, the MPs' and the country's, about the fact that a good part of the civilised world already recognises it, about the spite thing with Erdogan I mentioned earlier and also in spite of Merkel.
The current image of her suffered a good deal because she was seen as giving in to Erdogan all the time (again, the refugee thing and Böhmermann), so forcing her into a position where she has to take a clear stance against her best interest was probably a factor as well.
Because yeah, Germany gained nothing from this. At the same time however, this does nothing to Turkey either.
It's Erdogan and his highly amusing fits of rage, it's his ministers being his willing croneys in spreading the names and faces and addresses of German-Turkish MPs and are thus contributing to the death threats and the fact that a good many of them are now under police protection that are making this into a problem in the first place. Or rather we should put it as "problem", as they're technically benefiting from it.
In one of your first reactions you said how this means nothing. Exactly! It doesn't.
Hell, the MPs that pushed for it basically admitted all this by omission of the "change" bit. They just said they couldn't stand letting the denying part have their say without saying anything else. And some more meaningless blurb of how they hope there could be a talk to clear things up between the two sides. That statement means bloody nothing, politics talk.
The "improving" bit was brought up by you first, IIRC.
Good lord.
