Posted on 12/13/2023 10:23:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has sparked a diplomatic row by holding an unauthorized meeting with the Turkish president. Yousaf, roughly equivalent to a U.S. state governor, is a Pakistani-heritage Muslim. He has been pushing the British government to back an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and import thousands of Gazan refugees. Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, nominally a NATO ally, also backs a ceasefire. He has branded the West's support for Israel against Hamas "barbaric". By discussing a ceasefire with Erdogan at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), Yousaf breached diplomatic protocol. Foreign policy and defense are reserved to the British central government. Yousaf, as head of the devolved Scottish government, should not have met a foreign government representative without British government officials present.
With Yousaf's party being left-separatist, it has long attempted to set up a parallel foreign policy. Foreign Secretary (Secretary of State) David Cameron has threatened to expel Scottish government officials from Foreign Office premises over the Erdogan breach, however. Yousaf is no stranger to controversy in British politics. He swore his oath of allegiance in the Scottish Parliament in Urdu, the official language of his family's native Pakistan. He also railed against the number of white people in Scotland while he was the government minister responsible for justice matters.
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What tartan do the ‘Scottish’ Yousafs wear?
Why is Turkey even in NATO still?
Turkey doesn’t share foreign policy goals with the other NATO countries, so it doesn’t make sense — for either us or them.
As for Scotland, this is what happens when you allow your country to be taken over by fanatical Muslims. Scotland may still have one last chance to pull back from the brink, but it’s not looking good. (Ireland is even worse, and England isn’t far behind.)
Elections have consequences, my dear Scotsmen.
Next time please be more careful what you’re voting for (directly or indirectly)
There was a time l was proud of my Scottish heritage, that is dead as 8-tracks
The Pakistani “Scottsman” wants Scotland to be like the Sick Man of Europe (Turkey).
bump for later
The separatists in Scotland are mostly non-Scots. The replacement of the population with foreign-born and/or foreign-origin detritus from the British Commonwealth wasn't supposed to backfire like it has, but only a dolt would not have seen it coming.
Another once-great country puts a mohammedan in charge. SMH.
Gosh. My Gmother met my Gfadder in Glasgow almost a century ago.
Have pics from back then. Don’t see anyone who looks even vaguely like SuperPaki back then.
Or for the previous 10,000 years.
Turkey has been the cork in the bottle, between Europe and the Middle East, and pre-Erdogan allowed a two degrees of separation alliance between NATO/EU and Israel.
Now Greece resists the non-Greek replacement out of the 3rd world middle east hellholes, made possible by Erdogan. The EU doesn't publicly help Greece with this.
Erdogan has proved to be diplomatically and politically nimble, whatever else he has been, actually learning from earlier mistakes and the like. He's had time to do that because he's restructured the Turkish constitution and turned Turkey into a "durable majority" state (like California).
Whatever follows him will be worse, because there will be no impediment to absolute power.
He should be fired, impeached, or whatever the Brits &/or Scots can do to throw him out of office.
Sad, isn’t it?
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