While Simon Coveney was in Turkey last week, hundreds of his own citizens were being fined heavily for also trying the leave the country.
More interestingly, while Coveney was on that trip, Turkey was in the middle of an LGBT crackdown that would eventually lead to mass arrests.
Four students were by the Turkish authorities arrested after drawing LGBT symbols alongside images of Mecca.
One Minister, Ibrahim Kalin, said that these protestors ‘deserved to be punished’. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu referred to them as ‘4 LGBT deviants’ in a tweet which has now been restricted by Twitter.
Follow up protests by students led to 150 arrests.
Fascinatingly, Fine Gael recently broke Fermoy Town’s twinning with a Polish one because of the ‘LGBT Free Zone’ conspiracy theory which alleges that Poland has created zones where LGBT people are not welcome (they just ban harmful theories on sexuality being taught to small children in schools). Fine Gael Councillor Noel McCarthy said at the time ‘We are not going to accept discrimination against any community’.
Coveney and Fine Gael, like most in Europe, fear Islam but see Catholic countries as soft targets to be bullied.
Other figures such as Neale Richmond have been eager to support pro abortion protests in Poland aimed at legalising the abortion of babies with Down Syndrome, yet Richmond has not made any comment on what is currently happening in Turkey.
The Fine Gael/Fianna Fail coalition have been some of the biggest cheerleaders in trying to undermine Polish Catholic society, with failed TD Fiona O’Loughlin especially provocative in her efforts to criticise the Polish. She has so far not made any comment on Coveney’s trip and his endorsement of a regime locking up LGBT campaigners.
Quite bizzarely, despite speaking out on arrests in the past, Amnesty Ireland and its leader have not spoken on this particular issue, especially the fact that Simon Coveney was present in the country at the time of the arrests on January.
Almost a week after his visit to Turkey, Catholic Arena and The Burkean remain the ONLY two Irish websites to even mention Coveney’s trip as journalists hold off on letting the public know about it, possibly for fear of a backlash towards the Bilderberg Globalist extremist.
This episode proves that criticisms of Poland’s attitude to LGBT activism are not done in good spirit, but as an effort to undermine Catholic culture and European birthrates. Likewise, the media ignoring Coveney’s trip brings up even more questions.