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Biden to visit Turkey following coup attempt
The Hill ^ | August 13, 2016, 01:38 pm | Harper Neidig

Posted on 08/14/2016 5:49:38 AM PDT by fluorescence

Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Turkey later this month to smooth over the administration’s relationship with the NATO ally.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime survived a coup attempt last month and has since been cracking down on journalists, academics and the military in an effort to suppress what it sees as vestiges of the coup movement.

The White House said in a release that Biden's stop in Ankara will be part of a three-day trip that also includes visits to Latvia and Sweden.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bho44; biden; bidenturkey; coup; erdogancountercoup; joebiden; latvia; nato; sweden; turkey; turkeycoup

1 posted on 08/14/2016 5:49:38 AM PDT by fluorescence
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To: fluorescence

Send our turkey to Turkey...


2 posted on 08/14/2016 5:53:05 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: fluorescence

Damn, that is just dumb.


3 posted on 08/14/2016 5:54:01 AM PDT by mware
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To: fluorescence

Biden? What could possibly go wrong ?!


4 posted on 08/14/2016 5:56:40 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. Tnhey're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: fluorescence

Sending a marshmallow to put out a bonfire...


5 posted on 08/14/2016 5:57:18 AM PDT by nickedknack
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To: fluorescence

He’s being sent by JarrettObama to tell Erdogan to chill a bit before he blows the game on the new Caliphate by going off half-cocked.


6 posted on 08/14/2016 5:57:18 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: fluorescence

Hope they keep him


7 posted on 08/14/2016 5:58:25 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: fluorescence

Apropos


8 posted on 08/14/2016 6:17:57 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Doogle

You beat me by [-] this much! Lol.


9 posted on 08/14/2016 6:27:03 AM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long .as it's mandatory.)
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To: fluorescence

Think of it as a “workshop”, not a visit.


10 posted on 08/14/2016 6:36:44 AM PDT by Chewbarkah (o)
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To: fluorescence
Conspiracy Alert

Is this high profile trip to Turkey part of the plan to raise Joe Biden's profile/reputation? (Previously it was John Kerry who had these high-profile trips.) Is the Obama administration/ValJar setting up Joe to be the alternative to Hillary -- that is after her unfortunate and untimely medical crisis that forces her to resign as Democrat candidate?

11 posted on 08/14/2016 7:01:28 AM PDT by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: fluorescence

With any luck, Erdogan will have him arrested for ‘harboring a known coup organizer.’


12 posted on 08/14/2016 7:09:47 AM PDT by Clioman
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To: fluorescence

I thought Kerry already visited Turkey


13 posted on 08/14/2016 8:00:21 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: fluorescence

Dateline: December 8, 2016.

President Hillary! Rodham Clinton’s regime survived a coup attempt last month and has since been cracking down on civilian tea party groups and the military in an effort to suppress what it sees as vestiges of the coup movement.


14 posted on 08/14/2016 8:04:53 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Turkey later this month to smooth over the administration’s relationship with the NATO ally.

Hope they keep him... foggin ice hole


15 posted on 08/14/2016 8:57:42 AM PDT by zzwhale (no way)
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