Erdogan and Syria
I wonder if anyone out there still thinks Erdogan is a nice guy.
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Originally Posted by scot47
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I wonder if anyone out there still thinks Erdogan is a nice guy.
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Ok. i am always slightly bewildered about where things should go A reflection of the clutter in my own place ! Taxonomy and tidiness are alien to me.
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Re: Erdogan and Syria
Originally Posted by scot47
(Post 12748103)
I wonder if anyone out there still thinks Erdogan is a nice guy.
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NATO has been waging war in Afghanistan since 2001. No sign of an end to that. Gordon is right. Wickedness is all around us.
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Originally Posted by scot47
(Post 12763042)
NATO has been waging war in Afghanistan since 2001. No sign of an end to that. Gordon is right. Wickedness is all around us.
Seven or eight years ago, in a personal blog-cum-journal, I reported some of my travel adventures, including this extract below. (Sadly, house rules don't allow me to link to any specific post in that blog, but I think it's OK to include this brief extract in italics below): What is relevant to this topic is that one reader took me to task for describing the ANZAC soldiers as "invaders". Of course from a Turkish perspective, that's exactly what they were. From a Turkish perspective, Erdogan is the nation's democratically elected President. Turkey was immensely kind to us. Someone reckoned that being Australian must have helped, with the Turks feeling superior because their army had beaten back the ANZAC invaders in 1915 at Gallipoli. But most of the people we mixed with would never have heard of the invasion. In a town halfway to Mount Ararat we were intercepted in the street while looking for a cheap hotel, and pressed to stay in a private home. The small children were woken up and brought to meet us, and we slept in a bed still warm from their bodies. (Some things you just can’t argue about.) |
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I too have been the beneficiary of great personal kindness from complete strangers in some far-off places. Rural Africa, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, the Hejaz.. Only 20 years after the end of WW2 i was impressed by the help ordinary people in Germany gave me as I hitched back from Passau to the Channel. And by the welcome from Palestinian colleagues when I went to teach in Al- Mamluka Al-Arabia Al-Saudiya.
In my old age, back in my native Scotland I try to show the same kindness to foreigners in our midst. And to discourage contact with the Neo-Ottoman State of Turkey. |
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Originally Posted by scot47
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... And to discourage contact with the Neo-Ottoman State of Turkey.
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If this story is factual, then Erdogan/Turkish officials could have done better...
British counter-terror police have scrambled to Heathrow airport to arrest a suspect after only learning that he had been deported from Turkey while his plane was in the air. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...error-offences |
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Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
(Post 12763897)
If this story is factual, then Erdogan/Turkish officials could have done better...
Ankara has long voiced frustration with its European allies for refusing to take their citizens home. However, Turkish officials have expressed a new-found determination to deport foreign jihadists after facing international condemnation over the attack on western-backed Kurdish-led forces over the border in Syria, which Ankara considers a terror group. Speaking to reporters earlier this week, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, threatened to release all of its jailed foreign militants and send them to Europe.“You should revise your stance towards Turkey, which at the moment holds so many Isis members in prison and at the same time controls those in Syria,” Erdogan said, addressing European countries. “These gates will open and these Isis members who have started to be sent to you will continue to be sent. Then you can take care of your own problem.” |
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Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
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Oh, I'm sure it is factual, spouse. This extract from The Guardian's report gives the background. And I guess that as long as the jihadis who left the UK haven't destroyed their UK passports, Britain is obliged to take them back. Seems reasonable, I have to say.
Ankara has long voiced frustration with its European allies for refusing to take their citizens home. However, Turkish officials have expressed a new-found determination to deport foreign jihadists after facing international condemnation over the attack on western-backed Kurdish-led forces over the border in Syria, which Ankara considers a terror group. Speaking to reporters earlier this week, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, threatened to release all of its jailed foreign militants and send them to Europe.“You should revise your stance towards Turkey, which at the moment holds so many Isis members in prison and at the same time controls those in Syria,” Erdogan said, addressing European countries. “These gates will open and these Isis members who have started to be sent to you will continue to be sent. Then you can take care of your own problem.” |
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Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
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Oh I don't disagree Gordon. Just wondered if the complete lack of notification that he'd be on that plane was an oversight or deliberate.
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Turkey under Erdogan seems well able to get rid of people it doesn't like. Numerous journalists dead, the strange suicide of Jacky Sutton and now the death of James Le Mesurier just to name a few.
Here is a list of journalists killed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...lled_in_Turkey |
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Originally Posted by philat98
(Post 12764174)
Turkey under Erdogan seems well able to get rid of people it doesn't like. Numerous journalists dead, the strange suicide of Jacky Sutton and now the death of James Le Mesurier just to name a few.
Here is a list of journalists killed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...lled_in_Turkey As for Le Mesurier, he founded the "White Helmets" - which is an extremely dubious anti-government organisation in Syria, allegedly sponsored by American and Israeli intelligence agencies. Plenty of links about that, too. Here's one of them. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...er-gets-crossd |
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Thats an interesting story about Philip Cross and Wikipedia. Probably these groups are active all over the internet.
Le Mesurier's career path from soldier, private security operator to White Helmets boss seems a bit suspicious. A lot of cash involved too. Turkey could have just asked him to leave the country. |
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