Posted on 03/18/2014 5:46:15 PM PDT by No One Special
Turkey will close the Bosphorus for Russian ships, if there is violence against the Crimean Tatars, said Turkish prime minister Recep Erdogan.
In a phone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin, quoted by a diplomatic source, Erdogan also said that Turkey will not recognize the referendum in Crimea in which 97% of the voters cast their ballots in favour of joining the Russian Federation.
“Turkey wants Ukraine to keep its territorial integrity,” Erdogan said. “If NATO takes a decision on the matter, we will certainly stick with it.”
Earlier Erdogan had a phone conversation with the leader of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev in which they discussed the threats against the Tatars in connection to the factual annexation of Crimea.
Got it. You are good with Obama’s foreign policy.
You need to study a little logic. Critical thinking is not your strong suit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
My logic is fine thanks. However, your grasp of world and American history leaves a lot to be desired. It’s common enough thanks to today’s education system and people glued to a tv instead of a good book on the subject...and no, Face’book’ doesn’t count. But you have lots of company so you’ll never be lonely.
It has been a dream of Russian Tsars at least since Peter the Great to control Constantinople the Bosphorus and the Dardenelles
Erdogan teasing the bear is a bad idea
I’ll stack my intellect and education, knowledge of history against yours any day. You clearly don’t have a grasp of logic when you make stupid remarks of the “If you oppose Putin, you love Obama” false dichotomy nature.
And yet you post the exact opposite in your “If you don’t think Putin is the Antichrist, you are anti-American” sounding nonsense.
If you had any knowledge beyond your seemingly TV fueled armchair quarterbacking, you might notice a couple points in American history that we closely mirrored many of Putin’s activities. Kosovo did not make me hold my head high. Perhaps you should read up on it. Because you don’t get to have it both ways. Nor does Barry, McCain and the crew.
Maybe you do have the knowledge and just choose to pretend it never happened to impress your buddies online with ignorance. Who knows? But history really doesn’t care. Nor do I.
America has occasionally acted in a manner less then noble. Yet predominantly, US forces come to liberate, not enslave when we invade.
Russia persistently, throughout its history has acted as an imperialist power, and aggressor against its neighbors. Even before communism, the Russian Empire was known as the “ Prison of Nations”.
If you can’t see the basic, fundamental difference in those histories, yet trumpet how you love America, you are are clueless and hopeless.
bkmk
Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits?
It’s just another treaty. Russia don’t care about treaties.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances
So why should Turkey bother about a far older treaty?
The Russian army looks impressive but is distributed over the largest country of the world. Turkey has quite a lot of tanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_equipment_of_the_Turkish_Land_Forces
The Turkish Navy has 14 German submarines. That doesn’t looks nice for the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Tell it to someone who cares. I’m not the one that just had to backtrack.
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