Here’s how Turkey really shows it belongs to Europe: it appoints a government advisor (Ali Yüksel, photo) who is known for his polygamy. He has three wives, soon to be four, and the self-appointed human rights people say nothing about it. Isn’t that true, Madame Roth?

Die WELT reports:

Turkey has found itself for weeks in a political-religious soap opera whose setting is the government quarter in Ankara. This and the three apartments of the three wives of Ali Yüksel, his sign of government advisor and self-appointed “sheikh ul-Islam,” or as an authority in things religious. “It would break my heart, I love him so much,” his wife Dilber following protocol admitted when book author Fehmi Calmuk asked her how she would feel if her husband would take a fourth wife. He already has three. For, as Yüksel very openly says, Islam allows up to four wives if the man can take care of them and treat them all the same.

“The same,” of course can also mean “with the same degree of badness,” and Yüksel was quoted with the words in the newspaper “Radikal” as not having asked permission from his present wives before marrying yet again, for “they would have left me.” But, thank goodness, it isn’t required by the commands of Islam to ask the wives.

How wise Islam really is!

According to information from his first wife Dilber who met him at the age of eleven years and, according to her statements, immediately saw the man of her life, Yüksel is a good husband. He shares his time equally with all three wives, “sleeps each night with a different one of us, and never twice in a row, and he never leaves any night out.”

Ah, that’s why Madame Roth is silent. Because Yüksel is so good, and his wife are apparently happy.

It makes just as much sense that he indeed should be an advisor for somebody. He belongs to the fundamentalist organization Milli Görüs, whose European division he heads. It is this same organization that at the end of May set a violent “Aid Convoy” on the way to Gaza that resulted in the death of nine activists. It is an organization that in the statements of its own agents is endeavoring to set up a “Great Turkey” as the center of an Islamic world, and whose opinion is that Israel can only be wrestled down with violence.

As touching the image of wives — a lot can be brought into the picture. For example, the child marriage of President Gül who married his wife when she was only 15. Or a few years ago, the handbook of an AKP mayoral office containing suggestions for matrimony in which there was a good tip that men should, if at all possible, marry women who were of a lower social status than they.

Prime Minister Erdogan doesn’t tire of praising women when they are mothers. There are fewer and fewer women, however, in state service since the AKP has been governing. This conclusion was made, however, by a non-governing organization named “Iris” in the year 2007. The development is probably a symptom of the fact that the AKP allows its own followers above all in the administration, and they are consistently of Muslim persuasion and see the place of the woman as at home with the family.

However, that doesn’t disturb our female legislators. As long as the little woman before the stove wears a Muslim veil, the whole world is in order for her.

(Hat tip: Nolaner, rotgold, Peter Pan, Leser, Gerndrin / Translation: Anders Denken)

Here\'s how Turkey really shows it belongs to Europe: it appoints a government advisor (Ali Yüksel, photo) who is known for his polygamy. He has three wives, soon to be four, and the self-appointed human rights people say nothing about it. Isn\'t that true, Madame Roth? Die WELT reports: Turkey has found itself for weeks in ...

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