Turkish presidency asked Bashir to cancel appearance at summit: report
November 9, 2009 (KHARTOUM) – The Turkish presidency has quietly worked over the weekend to convince the Sudanese government not send president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir to attend the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Istanbul, a Turkish columnist wrote today.
Ankara defended its stance saying it did not send out the invitation to Bashir but they were simply hosting the conference and revealing that it has no intention of inviting him in the future for bilateral talks.
On Sunday the Sudanese state media carried a report saying that the Sudanese president “delayed” his visit to Turkey in light of the ongoing dispute with SPLM over crucial parts of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
The report said that Bashir phoned his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul to thank him for the invitation and apologizing for not being able to make it to the summit because of internal matters he has to attend.
But Yusuf Kanli, chief columnist with the English language Istanbul based Hurriyet daily news quoted senior Turkish officials as saying that the presidency “directly contacted and persuaded Bashir to cancel his plans to attend.
The officials said that Gul “was relieved” by al-Bashir’s agreeing to stay away and “implied that the protest note from the European Union and the remarks of displeasure expressed by Washington regarding the planned visit were strong enough to force Ankara to engage in some secret diplomacy to convince al-Bashir to call off the visit” according to Kanli.
Mustafa Ozjan, an independent Turkish analyst also told the Trend News Agency in Azerbaijan that Bashir “postponed his visit to Turkey at the request of Ankara”.
In Khartoum, Sudanese officials made conflicting statements on the reasons behind scrapping the plans to be at the summit.
The Sudanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ali Karti said in statements at Khartoum airport today carried by Xinhua news agency that “after the pressures put on Turkey by the European Union rejecting participation of President al-Bashir in the summit, the political leadership decided to cancel the president’s participation to avoid further pressures on Turkey”.
However, the Sudanese presidential adviser Mustafa Osman Ismail later denied that EU pressure had any role to play in the no-show of Bashir at the summit.
“The position of Turkey being keen on Bashir’s participation was marked by swiftness in front of the pressures” Ismail was cited by SUNA.
“The Turkish stance must be lauded and at the same time valuing the position of Sudan to those who think that postponing the visit was in consideration of the Turkish situation and the pressure it faced” he added.
Ismail reiterated the official reason for the cancellation to the ongoing political stalemate between the partners in the government of national unity.
But Al-Tayib Zein Al-Abdeen, a prominent Islamist columnist, told the Qatar based Al-Jazeera TV that the ICC warrant is the “more likely” reason why Bashir did not go to Turkey.
On Sunday, the BBC Arabic service quoting official Sudanese sources in Istanbul said that Bashir listened to his Vice president Ali Osman Taha’s advice telling him that Israeli and Greek fighter jets may intercept his plane en route to Turkey.
The report said that Sudanese presidential jet landed in Istanbul without Bashir on board.
Sudanese newspapers today highlighted the remarks made by Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in which he defended Bashir saying that a Muslim is incapable of committing genocide.
“In any event a Muslim could not commit genocide, he is not capable of it,” Erdogan said.
“If there was such a thing [genocide] we could talk about it face to face with President Bashir” he added.
The Turkish Premier said he visited Darfur and saw no signs of genocide.
Bashir returned today from Egypt where he took part in the fourth Forum of China-Africa Cooperation.
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oshay
Turkish presidency asked Bashir to cancel appearance at summit: report
It’s a real shame when Westerners who have killed more people than anyone and never held to account can determine who and who isn’t guilty. It’s also a real shame that our president should feel that he is a prisoner in his own country over crimes he did not commit.
What goes around comes around and those who suffer the most on earth will be the first to enter heaven. The SPLA who has butchered itself into power will be first to see HELL.
Samson Shawel Ambaye
Turkish presidency asked Bashir to cancel appearance at summit: report
God be with ICC UNSC.
Erdogan lier Bashir him self acknowledged he has killed 10000 Darfur Sudanese. why you lie sayimg “In any event a Muslim could not commit genocide.
David_N
Turkish presidency asked Bashir to cancel appearance at summit: report
The Turks are Hittite in origin, which belongs to the sons of Ham, the Hamitic race, the sons of Canaan.
Some peoples say that Hittite are black race in white land.
Hittite also related to the peoples of Turkic origin with Turkistan in China, where there are Muslim populations in North Western China.
The Turks defended all the way down to Khartoum, todays North Sudan from British Empire when Europeans were hightened into African colonializm.
Technically, the Ethiopians says they got colonized by Italy for 5 years, but more of Eritrean/Ethiopians went mixed with Romans/Italians, so more like Barak Obama today.
1/4th of Ethiopians has Italian grandparents by birth.
By the way, North Sudanese were more pure, because British never could intermarried to North Sudanese, result of Egyptian soldiers monitored British soldiers while they were in North Sudan, and Turks ruled out North Sudan, instead of British rule in North Sudan, so late Ottoman Empire protected, the Hittite Peoples protected North Sudan from sons of Japheths which is Caucasian race to mixing into Northern Sudanese.
By the way, most all black Americans has one of their grandparents were caucasian race, even they looks more African, but they got white race in them.
But thank TURK, which is protected North Sudanese women to be rape by these white monstars, like Chad are now today.
BUSTA 2
Turkish presidency asked Bashir to cancel appearance at summit: report
I hate the ways some fake president are trying to embarass our president!!!
My advise to H.E is let him just stay home and deal with Southerners who are trying to Jeopardize CPA!!
Brother in Christ,
Busta 2
santos
Turkish presidency asked Bashir to cancel appearance at summit: report
how come that for the global summit our president fails to attend.very shamefull and embarassing.
Kur
Turkish presidency asked Bashir to cancel appearance at summit: report
“A mualim is incapable of committing genocide” is a stupid thing I can think of. Who is killing and raping women and children in Darfur? Moreover how many genocidal activities the Ottaman Turkish Empire committed around the world when their janjweeds roamed parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia? Who does not know the genocide that took place in Arminia? Who did it? what about those terrorists who blow up innocent people everyday in Afghanstan, Pakistan, Somalia, Iraq, Israel,etc. ? I hope they are muslims from another planet so that they can be barred from coming to earth.
Kur