Posted on 06/13/2013 10:16:55 AM PDT by wk4bush2004
Turkey's prime minister issued a "final warning" to protesters on Thursday, demanding that they end their occupation of a park next to Istanbul's landmark Taksim Square.
Sticking to his trademark defiant tone, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan also rejected condemnation by the European Parliament over the excessive use of force by Turkish riot police against demonstrators.
The comments suggest that Erdogan is determined to end two weeks of widespread protests that have trained an unflattering spotlight on his Islamic-rooted government and have morphed into the biggest street unrest of his 10-year tenure.
"We have arrived at the end of our patience," Erdogan told local party leaders in Ankara, the capital.
"I am giving you my final warning," he said, issuing the ultimatum to the thousands of holdouts in a sit-in in Istanbul's Gezi Park, which is next to the square. He urged parents with children at the park to convince them to pack up and go home.
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My question is, will Erodgan do a Tiananmen Square?
of course he will and he will get away it with just like the Chinese did.
Turkey is already a NATO member. If thy get into it with Israel....
Turkey is already a NATO member. If thy get into it with Israel....
Erdolf (rhymes with...)
And, of course, non of the European people want Turkey to ‘join the club’. But with unrelenting US pressure (for decades now) and removed-from-reality EU technocrats, who knows how it will turn out...
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