It was the year 1968 when the French-state-owned company Renault and the Turkish company OYAK, belonging exclusively to soldiers, agreed on setting up the company Renault Turkey and then started the joint production of cars in the historic city of Bursa. It is now half a century since the foundation of this technology and trade brotherhood.

For half a century, the French  taught and trained thousands and tens of thousands of Turks. The training was done in research and production institutes in France and also in Turkey and the Turks were trained in all areas of the automotive industry, from projects, manufacturing, economy to marketing – i.e. in the fields that were strange for Turkish soldiers and as far away as the Amazon River.

 

 

These days, the Turkish Renault, 49% of which is owned by Turkish soldiers, produces 360,000 cars, 750,000 engines and millions and millions of components for Renault cars produced in various factories in Europe.

Naturally, the first and most important customers buying those joint products has been the Turkish army …

Less than two years after the beginning of the joint production, on March 12, 1971, the Turkish soldiers stepped in politics with their force – it is usually called a “coup” – and gave up democracy, even if it had been imperfect, Turkish way of democracy. Like after every military coup, military regime and related repression followed.

And what about a country, such as France, that presented itself a model of democratic thinking? Nothing. France was just calculating the profit gained even from the coup, such things like human rights went aside….

In 1975 the Turkish army intervened in sovereign Cyprus and expelled thousands and thousands of Cypriots of Greek descent and usurped all their possessions. And what about France? They just calculated the increase in production and sales of their machines, resulting from the intervention in Cyprus!

Then another coup came on September 12, 1980. It began with massacres, with   thousands and thousands of politicians put in prison and being killed in facilities that were labeled as prisons but in fact they were nothing but Turkish torture chambers. And what about France as a democratic country? They calculated the increase in sales of their Renault, connected with the hyperactivity of the army and the associated money!

What about the Erdogan regime? Nothing, they just continue the tradition of their ancestors. The only difference is that the hostage is no longer presented in the “cultivated” way, as the European officials have been accustomed to and as they wish to have it, but in a Turkish way. That is the only “detail” the European officials are bothered about.

Renault as hostage?

 

 

The Turks have been so well-trained by the French in all branches of automotive production of that type that the French can be labelled as “supporters of terrorism”, whenever the Erdogan regime decides to do so – as was the case of Mercedes – and nationalize all of the French investments, especially in human resources, and continue production with their own brand, primarily because they control the market.

The most important fact is that former members of the Turkish army who are not only in the leadership of the joint venture, know the future projects of the of the mother company in detail, they know what innovations have been planned and what are their visions for the future in all areas of the industry.

Erdogan has discovered the true face of European politicians, and he knows that they are just puppets lead by capital, and the hostage business works perfectly. If this is not enough, a French journalist can be captured somewhere and released only after the French president steps back.

That is why we could witness the situation that President Hollande received Miss Nesrin Abdullah, the head of the Kurdish militia, at the Elysees Palace one day, then he got scolded by the “capital” and immediately he issued a statement to calm down Erdogan.

And it is not different with E. Macron. When Renault is not enough, the Erdogan regime will take another French journalist as a hostage to make Macron shut up and get him to his knees, as was the case of French journalist Loup Bureau and some others.

And, God forbid, if a Frenchman started talking about violation of human rights by Turkey,   France gets immediately under fire of insidious, offensive scoffing like, “You are the last bastard who can teach us about human rights, you bastard, have a look in your past and present, remember what you did and what you are doing in Africa …. “!

This is just a brief description of the hostage business carried out by Turkey towards France, which is currently in a tragic state of disintegration of human ethics, and yet  France was the country that once built the Statue of Liberty for New York and gave  hope for freedom and democracy to people…