#All oppressors must be condemned for their actions - if we cherry pick we will gain nothing

[thrassa]

Not to be that person (and it sucks that I have to be that person because I agree with the overall message), but your country - Turkey - is also currently illegally occupying 1/3 of Cyprus and has done so for 50 years now. It invaded in 1974. Two times. The first was excused as a "peacekeeping operation" (though the war crimes and the long history of Turkey seeking to colonise Cyprus say otherwise) but the second occured during a ceasefire and during discussions for peace. Native Cypriots were forced out of their homes, tortured and massacred and many are missing to this day (though we all know they've been murdered as we keep discovering mass graves and human remains) - something that sounds oddly familiar when you consider the 75 year old plight of the Palestinians.

This similarity becomes even more "strange" when you take into account the fact that after the Cypriots were forced out of their homes, many were "replaced" by Turkish settlers who the Turkish government brought from the mainland. The same goes for the pseudo-nation that your government has funded and continues to support.

Also, your country has committed three genocides in the span of a decade (Greek, Armenian, Assyrian) which it continues to deny, keeps bombing Syria, has oppressed ethnic Minorities such as the Greeks and the Kurds for decades upon decades, keeps threatening neighbouring countries with invasion and the theft of their land and is currently assisting Azerbaijan in its attempts to genocide the Armenian people once again. Oh, and it works alongside "Israel" to achieve that.

Yeah, you read that right - the hypocritical Turkish government (Erdogan and his cronies to be specific) speaks loudly over how it condemns "Israel" and its genocide but is only too happy to accept its assistance in the annihilation of the Armenians (as well as other collaborations the two have - let's also not mention how oftentimes, when Erdogan speaks of Palestine, he refers to the time it was under Ottoman enslavement and praising the fact so he's not against the oppression of the Palestinians, he just hates that he's not the one to oppress them).

So, please do speak against the illegal apartheid state of "Israel" and the colonial mindset that created it as well as the genocide it has slowly been committing for 75 years now and showcase its crimes to the world and try to educate as many people as you can and teach them the importance of boycotting but also recognise the horrid acts of your own government as they occur to this day and most are denied and remain unrecognised. Even by Eurovision.

We can't pick and choose who we will call out in such matters - otherwise, we are no different to the EBU and the way it handled Russia's war crimes in contrast to the way it is handling "Israel's" genocide.

Lastly, to show you that Eurovision has always been the same - Turkey first entered Eurovision in 1975, just one year after the invasion and the occupation of Cyprus. The Turkish war crimes and its condemnation for crimes against Humanity (which has occurred thrice) by the United Nations didn't stop Turkey from participating and winning Eurovision.

Not only should that not have been allowed, but Turkey should have been banned from the very beginning with no chance of ever entering - if we take into account all the above. But it entered the competition and then it willingly abandoned the sinking boat when it should have been banished - which also reminds me of how "Israel" kept threatening to leave the competition if its song was not approved.

So, EBU's actions and favoritism are nothing new - they've always been supporting the oppressors.

Ps. Op, please don't take this the wrong way - I don't mean any insult towards you (I don't know you, after all). I am simply tired of seeing so much hypocrisy in the world as well as seeing the perpetrators of violence, colonialism and genocide victimise themselves - something which both "Israel" and Turkey have been doing for decades now. And it's high time the world learned the truth.

with eurovision song contest starting i'd like everyone to remember that in 2022, they kicked Russia out of the contest due to the war crimes they committed against Ukraine and they also made Ukraine win the contest that year. in 2024 however, Israel gets to still participate in the contest (in contrast to them not even being in europe) even though they have also been breaking international law and committing numerous war crimes against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. approximately 30.000 innocent people have been killed in Gaza just during the past five months of Israeli bombardment and that is more than twice the number of innocent people Russia has killed in 2022, which was approximately 14.000 people. not to mention Palestinians have been under apartheid for the past 75 years and that didn't stop ESC from accepting Israel's participation in the contest 45 times and them even winning first place 4 times. apparently international law only matters when there's white people being affected by the war crimes committed. as longs as the dead bodies are brown it is a-okay! ESC has long been known to have a certain political approach but I think it's time we call it out. Israel has no place in ESC. this is important, talk about it. be loud about it. we don't want a terrorist state's flag waved at ESC, we don't want zionists performing songs for us. you don't get to gaslight your way out of this. kick Israel out of Eurovision.