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Saturday, 19 October 2019

Boycott Spain & Turkey as Holiday Destinations

The scenes coming out of Barcelona, Madrid and Catalonia are so disturbing, that I for one cannot watch them. I'm not squeamish usually but you know what the end result is going to be as soon as you see the set up. 
Erdogan has taken the opportunity left by Trump's troop withdrawal to hit the Kurds hard. It is obvious that he has been waiting for such an opportunity. I think Spain and Turkey are cowards. I am talking about the Governments here as Britain talked about Russia after the Salisbury Novichok attacks. If ordinary people of these countries support their government's actions in oppressing Catalans and Kurds then I as a common and garden blogger of little importance condemn them also. 
Thomas Cook have gone tits up! Britain considers that it has bigger fish to fry with Brexit. The EU have been deafeningly silent on the situation in Catalonia. France & Germany have refused to sell arms to Turkey and Britain is considering not selling armaments but Erdogan has got enough stockpiled to obliterate the Kurds should he so wish and we know that he so wishes.
What can we as ordinary Joes do about these blatant human rights abuses that are being beamed into our homes nightly? Well we are constantly being told that 'money talks' well in that case 'Boycott Spain & Turkey as Holiday Destinations'. Most people fly to these places so you will be doing your bit for the collective carbon footprint. If you are British, rediscover Cleethorpes and Skegness as holiday destinations. If you are Welsh, reacquaint yourself with Barry Island and Pwllheli. I am usually quite glib in whatever I write but in this I am deadly serious. Those who remember the 1980s know that the boycott of South African goods did have an effect on pressurizing the apartheid regime to release Nelson Mandela and even if you disagree about that, the feeling that you were doing something however small made you feel better. Most people have been to either Spain or Turkey on their holiday anyway so why would you want to go again? I wont mince my words "If you set foot on their sovereign soil you are condoning what their governments are doing to the Catalan politicians and protesters and condoning the bombing and killing of the Kurds who have been fighting ISIS on your behalf" 


      

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