Farewell to the dream of more incoming Chinese tourists

I never took it seriously that the idealist youths of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) had ?changed? during their leader Devlet Bahçeli?s time. This group turned my years at university into a nightmare with their raids of my department. 

I was right. 

In these days, the tragi-comic attacks of the idealist youths are at the top of the news agenda after they were trying to protest China for their oppression of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province. 

As a matter of fact, a leopard can?t change its spots. 

The angry idealist youths attacked a Chinese restaurant whose owner was Turkish and whose cook was Uighur. They burned an effigy of Mao, they marched to the thermic power plant in Zonguldak where Chinese workers worked, but the most horrific and weirdest of all was indeed the one in the Sultanahmet district of Istanbul.  

Idealist youth were, as I saw on TV, chasing South Korean tourists, thinking they were Chinese. Horrified tourist guides were trying to save the South Koreans from the angry crowd. 

Well, here is what MHP chair Bahçeli said after seeing these scenes: ?These are young people. One person would lead them and they would all follow. Also, what is the differentiating factor between a Korean and a Chinese? They looked and saw that they all have slanted eyes, right? ?

I don?t know how the Chinese sources reacted to this racist discourse but I read that South Korea was appalled at Bahçeli?s statement. 

Justice and Development Party (AKP) chief advisor Hüseyin Çelik said it was ?hugely ignorant and bullying to attack all slanted-eyed people thinking they were Chinese. Let us not forget, one-third of the world has slanted eyes.? 

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