Fairfax's editorial policy?

In 2006, Turkey condemned a French parliamentary vote that would make it a crime to deny that Armenians had suffered genocide. The bill did not become law - but Turkey suspended military ties.

In March 2010, Turkey withdrew its ambassador to Washington after a US congressional committee narrowly approved a resolution branding the killings as "genocide". The House Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed it, despite the objections of President Barack Obama.

In June of this year the Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop, perhaps with an eye to the required cooperation of Turkey at the upcoming ANZAC centenary, reassured the Turkish Communityin Australia that Australia do not recognise the events of 1915 as 'genocide' and states and territories have no constitutional role in the formulation of Australian Foreign policy.

In a letter signed by herself, Julie Bishop responded to our CEO Mr Ertunc Ozen's concerns about the motions passed by then Premier O'Farrell in the NSW Parliament in 2013 and 2014. She made it clear that the Federal government alone makes foreign policy and not members of state parliaments.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, the Harvard educated lawyer is playing smart politics. She clearly and correctly doesn't want to do a thing to jeopardise the commemorations next year at ANZAC Cove, for which Turkish cooperation is a sine qua non.

Hopefully on her flight back to soils girt by sea she'll find her voice and put finishing touches to a "Recognition of the Armenian Genocide 1915-1916" Bill and present it to the House soon thereafter.

The other glaring omission by McGeough is Erdogan's well-documented anti-Semitism.

Erdogan's virulent anti Jewish diatribes and that of his acolytes puts him in the same cesspool of undiluted racism that Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban'sgovernment has waded into.

It speaks volumes that not Fairfax, but instead the Emirate of Qatar, the proud funder of the Muslim Brotherhood's HAMAS terror group and publisher of Al-Jazeera last week ran an article by David Lepeska not only revealing but indeed criticising Erdogan's Jew hatred.

Referring to Karakoy, the Istanbul neighbourhood where the reporter lives, which takes its name from the "Karay", Turkish-speaking Jews from Crimea who settled in Turkey en masse in the 19th century, Lepeska notes that "the Karay and other Jewish communities have mostly left, but some of their places of worship remain".

And that "Turkish Jews are on edge. Since Israel began its latest assault on the Gaza Strip, Turkish officials have launched a verbal offensive of their own.

At an Istanbul campaign rally this week, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who also happens to be the leading presidential candidate, declaredIsrael 'will drown in the blood they shed' "