Posted on 06/10/2016 12:09:04 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect
...after being cut from speech line-up and banned from laying a cloth on boxer's coffin during Muslim ceremony
-Recep Tayyip Erdogan had specially flown to Louisville, Kentucky, to say farewell to Ali
-But the president’s office said Erdogan left the United States for Turkey late Thursday after attending the prayer ceremony
-He was due to speak at today's multi-faith service but lost his slot due to 'lack of program space'
-Funeral organizers also 'refused to allow Erdogan to lay a cloth from the Kaaba on Ali’s coffin during the Thursday ceremony'
-In addition he wanted the head of Turkey's religious affairs directorate to recite part of the Koran, but his wish had been refused
Turkey’s President has cut short his trip to the US and will not attend the funeral of boxer Muhammad Ali, his office said Friday, amid reports of a rift with the ceremony’s organizers.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan had specially flown to Louisville in the southern US state of Kentucky to say farewell to Ali, who the Turkish president is known to have admired hugely as a committed Muslim and civil rights campaigner.
Erdogan on Thursday attended a prayer ceremony for Ali and had been due to attend the funeral on Friday along with several other high profile political leaders.
But the president’s office said that Erdogan left the United States for Turkey late Thursday after attending the prayer ceremony and joining a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner with the US diaspora of Meskhetian Turks who were expelled from their homeland by Stalin in the 1940s.
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He was as angry as an old man returning soup at the deli.
Saw a clip on Lou Dobbs, sounded like Paul Wellston’s memorial. A funeral as a politically rally !!!
Is this Darth Tayyip, the Viceroy of the Trade Federation?
I don't think I have seen one instance of the Odamna Administration preparing a proper foreign relations meeting / trip. Nothing is worked out in advance, nothing is accomplished, and in the end the Untied States pretty much surrenders and cries wee wee wee all the way home!
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