President of the World Maronite Union (WMU), Sheikh Sami Khoury  to Erdogan: An ally of Iran and Syria shouldn't meddle in Lebanon
Cedars News
Friday, November 26, 2010
Washington,DC

Commenting on the visit to Lebanon by Turkey's Prime Minister, the President of the World Maronite Union (WMU), Sheikh Sami Khoury said "we do not consider this visit as in the interest of Lebanon in general and in the interest of its civil society. AKP leader Rejeb Tayyib Erdogan is no friend of a free Lebanon but an ally to Lebanon's enemies."
Khoury said "Turkey's AKP can fool many in the West and in Lebanon but does not fool us at all. The AKP Government has signed a strategic alliance treaty with the Syrian regime the occupier of Lebanon in which jails hundreds of Lebanese detainees are still being tortured. Erdogan has been siding with the Iranian Khomeinist regime in the nuclear crisis but more dangerous, the AKP stood with Ahmedinijad the oppressor against the Green Movement of Iran. When the ally of terrorists come to Lebanon he is not welcomed by the Lebanese people."

"We deplore the short sight political vision of the Lebanese Government which allowed this visit to take place giving Erdogan a platform for his Ottoman ambitions from the historic area of Akkar. The AKP's agenda is to reestablish the Ottoman empire, the very enemy that massacred the Lebanese people during WWI. Erdogan is meddling in Lebanese affairs when his intelligence services are coordinating with Syria's mukahbarat and with Hezbollah."

Khoury said "the Lebanese Diaspora is a friend to the Turkish secular people and institutions but rejects the AKP Islamist and Jihadist policies wrapped with political Taqiya. Erdogan has no business delivering speeches about his regime's Jihadi agenda from Lebanon's soil. He and Ahmedinijad are two faces of one coin. They both want to expand their influence in Lebanon. Ahmedinijad wants to use the Shia card and Erdogan wants to use the Sunni card. But both are part of the same regional axis, the one that supports Hezbollah, Hamas and the terrorists of the region.

We warn the Lebanese public not to fall to the propaganda machine which is trying to convince people that Erdogan will protect the Sunnis facing Ahmadinijad who supports the Shia. This is a game, the two regimes are in one basket and they are coordinating this game. They want Sunnis and Shia in Lebanon to look at these two regimes as their protectors while in reality they belong to the same axis.

We warn the Christian public in Lebanon not to fall into the trap of believing that Erdogan is a neutral party who wants to help Lebanon. The AKP Government is anti-NATO, pro Jihadist and is claiming they have the support of the US. They don't have such support, they are only gaining time. We urge Christian politicians not to rush to Ankara and Istambul to obtain economic favors from the AKP as they did with Damascus and Tehran. We warn those politicians that we will expose them and their businesses if they sell out to Erdogan.
We stand by our brothers and sisters from the Armenian community in their quest to obtain an AKP recognition of the Armenian Genocide. We ask the Erdogan Government to solve its own problems inside their own Republic before teaching the region lessons in policies. Let them solve the Kurdish problem first. Let them withdraw from Cyprus which they have been occupying. Let them stop harassing the secular segments of Turkish society."

Khoury concluded that the time for AKP games in the region is coming to an end. "The new US Congress and the current European Parliament knows what is the real agenda of the Islamist AKP. And the Lebanese Diaspora in 30 countries also knows. Mr Erdogan, your hands off Lebanon."