Turkey and the Fire of Racism

Turkey and the fire of racism (Template:Lang-tr; Template:Lang-ar) is a 17-minute Islamic State propaganda video released on Al-Hayat Media Center in 2015.

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It started off with a short clip of how Islam spread from Arabia to Central Asia, and then described how Turks "turned away" from Islam and turned to Sufi-style traditions during the Ottoman Empire and later to nationalism. It heavily criticised Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and it went on to criticise Recep Tayyip Erodgan as a tyrant and a murtad, and the AKP as deviant secularists under the guise of Islam. The video also targeted Abdullah Öcalan and Idealists. In the video, the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army and the Syrian Democratic Forces were targeted too. The video was all in fluent Istanbul Turkish, except for a short clip of a militant speaking in Kurmanji, who was sending a message to Kurds, “especially those living in Turkey.” He asked Kurds “do you believe you will be saved by the hands of atheists?”, referring to secular Kurdish groups. He later said “under the shadow of Sharia, the only thing separating Arab and non-Arab alike is their piety.” A militant in the video referred to the use of wolf symbolism among Turks as "idolatry", and also said that "Turanism has caused the disintegration of faithful brotherhood among Muslims".