Posted on 11/28/2015 9:44:43 AM PST by amorphous
A day after Turkey arrested two journalists for their report exposing Erdogan's weapons deliveries to "extremist groups" in Syria, confirming that no dissent to the president's foreign policy would be allowed, today a new riot has erupted in Istanbul following the dramatic murder in broad daylight of Tahir Elci, the president of the Turkish bar association in southeastern Diyarbakir province, who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while giving a public speech.
A campaigner for Kurdish rights, Elci had been criticized for challenging Turkey's official stance of calling the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) a terrorist organization. A Turkish prosecutor last month demanded up to seven and a half years of prison tme for Elci on the grounds of "making propaganda of a terror organization" after remarks he made supporting the PKK.
Just before being gunned down, Elci called for peace & silencing of all guns.
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Oh Carp
There are doins transpiring.
How long before the once civilized world (NATO, US, EU) recognize that the government of Turkey is a terrorist group and give the Kurds and Assad’s regime the support they deserve?
there’s something you dont see everyday.
That’s our ally in the war on terror, folks.
Yeah, I warned someone recently to get the heck out of Turkey while the gettin was good.
Ever see anything Obama had his hand on that didn’t turn to crap?
Things like this are done to announce to ordinary people that they are now subjects of a dictatorship, that the government fears nothing.
yeah and i thought it was pretty safe,
recent weeks have show I am full of Shiite
Erdogan has been playing a double game for some time now. Using his country’s NATO membership to advance Islam at the West’s expense.
Time for us to realize an Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey has been aiding ISIS because it advances Islam.
Islam demands of all of its adherents that they work to advance Islam by any means available and by any means necessary, including deceit, lying, and killing.
Their book commands them to subjugate, convert or kill everyone else on the planet.
Mad Mo made it so.
The US should leave Turkey. It would fall to civil war immediately.
We don’t need the intel bases we have there anymore.
That’s our NATO ally.
Having his son be a conduit for ISIS oil doesn't hurt his bank account either. An Islamist kleptocrat.
There’s a reason the flies always go straight for him
Probably smells like a dog pile steaming in the sun...
” Erdogan has been playing a double game for some time now. Using his country’s NATO membership to advance Islam at the West’s expense.”
And the EU just voted to give Erdogan 3 billion euros to keep the “refugees” from going to Europe. How stupid can you get!
Ataurk did a great job holding off the war between east and west.
Turkey is a major crossroads.
Ergodan has been drifting toward Mecca for a long time
What is more alarming is how Obama set the north of Africa on fire for the invasion of Europe.
Turkey is the least of our troubles
Those Bases are basically gone.
Cypress is gone, Incirlik, gone
Erdogan and Obama are two of a kind.
http://therightscoop.com/obama-and-erdogan-to-open-new-mosque-together-in-maryland/
Yes, Turkey is a crossroads and will suffer because of it, as it has for centuries.
Agree, it’s not the biggest of our worries. There are others much more pressing and the Muslim invasion is up there near the top - along with our own decline here in America, I’m afraid.
My BIL is there on business right now. He owns a plant that makes tooling for aerospace. Wish he’s come home!
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