Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)
Posted on 03/22/2018 4:40:30 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
It is not clear at this stage what effect President Donald Trump’s nomination of Mike Pompeo as secretary of state will have on Turkish-American ties, already strained over a number of seemingly intractable issues.
What is clear, though, is that Ankara is rattled with Trump’s choice. The reason is a tweet by Pompeo during the coup attempt in July 2016 in which he likened Turkey, alongside Iran, to a “totalitarian Islamic dictatorship.”
The implication of the tweet, which Pompeo later deleted, appeared to be that the attempted coup — which had still not failed at the time of the message — may have been an auspicious event. It only served to reinforce the belief in Ankara that Washington was somehow behind the attempt to get rid of Erdogan and his Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP).
The subsequent failure by the United States to extradite Fethullah Gulen, the Islamic preacher residing in Pennsylvania who Ankara accuses of masterminding the failed coup, and members of his retinue still fuels this belief.
Meanwhile, Pompeo’s tweet was etched in Turkish minds and continues to rankle in Ankara. After Pompeo’s nomination was announced, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu did not refer to him by name, but made his condition for working productively with the next secretary of state clear: “This is the choice of the United States. We do not want to comment on it, but whoever it will be, they need to first learn how to behave, approach and respect us,” Cavusoglu told reporters in Moscow, where he was on an official visit.
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And Turkey is in NATO. Never should have been, need to be let go.
Yes.
We needed them to contain the Soviets during the Cold War.
We don’t need them anymore.
They are a terrorist state. Their government is illegitimate.
We really need to repatriate all servicemen and nukes from Incirlik and then tell them to F.O.
Erdogan impatient to charge ahead in SyriaErdogan Impatient To Build The New Ismlamic Caliphate
Exactly.
Insidious liberal fake media tries to produce trouble out of nothing.
Mike Pompeo visited Ankara last year as CIA chief. His stupid tweet (which he had deleted) didn’t generate bad blood.
Oh Turkey, please, please get stuck in the quagmire that is Syria, pleeeeeeeze!
Turkey is an enemy state playing both sides off to her benefit.
To late to kick them out of NATO but no need to encourage their dictator...
Oh Turkey, please, please get stuck in the quagmire that is Syria, pleeeeeeeze!
Turkey is an enemy state playing both sides off to her benefit.
To late to kick them out of NATO but no need to encourage their dictator...
Uh, oh! Time for some more “Assad is killing his own people” allegations.
Erdogan Impatient To Build The New Ismlamic Caliphate
Do not overlook the financial incentive associated with a seaport for a natural gas pipeline.
More on the gas pipelines and the Turkish money/blood trail.
Loving Pompeo more every day.
Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu did not refer to him by name, but made his condition for working productively with the next secretary of state clear: “This is the choice of the United States. We do not want to comment on it, but whoever it will be, they need to first learn how to behave, approach and respect us,” Cavusoglu told reporters in Moscow, where he was on an official visit.
Through a sniper's scope is the best way to approach any of those bastards. But alas, no matter how ****ty Erdogan gets, whatever follows him will be worse. Thanks Texas Fossil.
I go to NATO when I want my shoes shined.
Yep, it’s the gas.
“Pompeo may be the right man for this job. “
First in his class at West Point, and a veteran of the Gulf War, he is more of a fighter, and more Conservative than Tillerson, who famously decided to allow gay scoutmasters into the Boy Scouts of America, to take young boys into the woods for overnights.
Good credentials.
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