Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a recurring problem with foreign dissent occurring on foreign soil, and can’t seem to get through a visit to the United States without his bodyguards feeling obliged to assault political demonstrations. The State Department wasn’t super thrilled with that, but Turkish officials are downright furious this time around.
Following the State Department saying they had “concern” about the beatdown of protesters, some of whom were waving a Kurdish organization’s flag. Turkey has summoned the US Ambassador to deliver a hand-written protest to the US government for daring to allow such protests in the first place.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry argued that they want a “full investigation” into the circumstances whereby the US allowed the public demonstration to take place, insisting it was a “provocative” action and that the demonstration was clearly unpermitted.
The Erdogan government, of course, is unaccustomed to dealing with such protests, as people across Turkey are routinely disappeared into custody for even a hint of disloyalty toward the president. Still, an unfamiliarity with public dissent is hardly unique to Turkey, among foreign leaders visiting the US, and seemingly everyone else is able to cope with seeing protests without sending a bunch of guys with batons over to cudgel them into silence.
These thugs get away with assaulting people wherever that clown goes. Of course, there are no consequences, no one summons (or better yet, expels) Turkish ambassadors, and countries keep inviting that creature knowing full well what’s going to happen. I wonder what would happen if the US secret service were to beat up on Turks on Turkish soil.
We have adopted neocon narrative on Turkey, and that is that. For as long as we — the population — are ignorant, they will rule. Turkey is their thorn in the side, and thus, the man who managed to get Turkey from underneath their tentacles, from Soros and Gulen, to NATO — is to be demonized. I can tell you with absolute certainty — Erdogan will go into history as a man who succeeded in liberating Turkey. This is why he has such high citizen approval.
As for disappearing, why not examine the politics in Turkey prior to Erdogan’s party coming to power. Why not review the military coups, the hundreds of thousand dead, over half a million detained, and many that fled the country. Turkey knows who liberated them from military clutches, and are by far more resilient today to the manipulations of empire, and the demonization of those that stand up to it.
As for Kurds, as you know neither their arms, nor money come from Allah, and they do not fly magic carpets in their operations that resulted in attacks on army posts, police or Turkish civil service. We know that neocon international has been using Kurds to threaten Turkey, as Kurdish secessions would result in Turkey being literally be cut of from the Middle East.
The last, feeble attempt in July last year, to assassinate Erdogan, and take over the Parliament — failed. It failed in great deal by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens showing up on the streets confronting tanks. It failed also, because rank and file military did not lend support to the high-level coup organizers. This last attempt at controlling Turkey failed, and with it, people who were in service to such globalist projects, are the losers. It is certainly not a just process, as many people were snagged into the net of post-coup revenge. But it is worth remembering — meddling into internal affairs of other countries has painful consequences.
As for the protests. How predictable. Kurds will show up at Embassy, without permit, and with them come cameras and media. So, old and worn out, with the design to embarrass Erdogan. If one thinks Erdogan has a thin skin to react to such protests, one would be mistaken. Turkey will not overlook details, such as condoning a protest without a permit. Under other circumstances, police would ask protestors to leave. But, like in this case, they looked away
And it is not the body guards that caused the fight. Many people in DC witnessed the event, and many, like a friend of mine, had her car smashed by a Kurdish man, driving erratically at the site of the protest. The protestors were confronted by other Turks, that came on a short notice to confront Kurds. So, it was mostly the good old fashioned fist fight among US citizens, Kurds and Turks. The guards at the Embassy were just a tiny fraction of what really happened.
And our money still goes to fund Kurdish secessionism, a secessionism that has never been allowed to solve politically. About 7 years ago, Erdogan was in a good political situation, and struck a deal with Kurds on amnesty. Kurds came from the mountains, and were given amnesty. The process was heading into political solution, when a massive attack on Turkish military outpost resulted in many casualties, and public turned away from the idea of political reconciliation. That attack was AIMING at torpedoing Turkish effort to carve political solution. This is the nature of secessionism that becomes beholden to foreign interests, and cannot do anything any more to look after the interests of their own people. All become hostages to politics.
The high pitched drama and demonization of “Erdogan” brand name has become a par for the course. Thus, a constitutional change that simply changed a system into a presidential system as opposed to a parliamentary system, became such a fake issue. Turkey
s parliamentary system simply allowed for manipulation of political parties, and the paralysis of institutions. US has a presidential system, and had it from the beginning of the US Republic, and served us right. It is as anything prone to abuse, but to accuse others of being inferior and not capable of managing changes to their system is our serious flaw.
Yes and I believe Pol Pot was likewise a victim.
The demonstrators were a mixed group of Yazidis, Greeks, Armenians, Kurds, and others. They were not large enough in number to require a permit.
It is amazing how arrogant and out-of-control some pro-Turks are. They just do not understand the concept of civil rights and the rule of law.
Your talking of civil rights and the
rule of law — identifies you as either incredibly naive or a standard issue Soros globalist narrative peddler. But I believe you are just naive. There is no such thing as human rights or rule of law. It is a political theater for mass consumption. Look st your description of this wonderful diversity! Yazidis? Armenians? Protesting against Turks!
And while Turkish soldiers are dying fighting ISIS in Syria, defending the Armenian Christians in Syria, all Kurds have done is expand their territory at the expense of Syrian Arabs and Turkmen, Syrian Armenians or Iraqi Yazidis.
Let us talk facts — not fantasies. In Iraqi Sinjar, with great pomp US entered the fight against ISIS to save Yazidis and allow them to return to Sinjar. Touching. But US engaged two groups of Kurds, one Peshmerga Kurds and other PKK branch in Iraq. Behold, US insisted that PKK. enters the city, while astonished Peshmerga did nit even get a mention. Why? As US will not give power to Barzani Kurds who happen to have good relations with both Ankara and Baghdad. So, what happens to poor Yazidi? US Kurds still keep them out of Sinjar. It is a geoplolitical play — but a nice snd diverse group of idiots can always be found to fill the pages of controlled media.
Real Armenians in Syria trust more those boys in Syrian Army uniforms, and Turkish soldiers that pushed ISIS and Kurds out of the border with Turkey — allowing the people to return to their homes.
People there know who is dying for what, and for whom. No amount of nauseating phoney diversity can fool them. May work only on the identity splintered liberal American, that lives in a neocon bubble.
You and others may wish to read these two Columbia University studies which prove that Turkey has supported ISIS:
“Research Paper: Turkey-ISIS Oil Trade”
“Research Paper: ISIS-Turkey Links”
They are on Huffington Post for anyone to read, and they’re not the only ones/
Also, this UK article :
“Angela Merkel’s government says it has proof Turkey is supporting Islamic State and Hamas”.
Turkey’s policy of “zero problems with neighbors” has turned into “plenty of problems with nearly every neighbor.”
I don’t know enough about Turkey’s interior politics. Sure Erdogan probably has mass appeal in his country, but often the masses aren’t politically savvy. His anti-Western-establishment credentials are iffy. He’s got US bases in his country and is pathetically desperate to be part of the EU. At times he lets himself be used by the corrupt establishment at other times he wants to appear as an opponent of it. The fact that he’s against Assad and basically has taken over some Syrian territory is deplorable. I don’t know about “Turkish soldiers [are] dying fighting ISIS in Syria” when his priority is fighting the Kurds and Assad.
To get back to the issue though, his behavior and of his entourage around the world has been unacceptable.
To tell you the truth, the US is so embarrassingly cowed by Turkey and always has been, if Turkish police or military beat up US Secret Service men and even the US President in Turkey, NOTHING would happen except some mild criticism by the US. Turkey can slap around the US all it wants. I am not kidding.
President “Tough Guy” Trump has not said anything about the Turkish attack on Americans. Trump bows before Erdogan and licks him. This is the sad truth.
The arrogance and sense of entitlement by Turkey is a site to behold.
These guys make friends wherever they go.
Sorry, but this is not a good article. Don’t excuse Turkey or Erdogan.
Erdogan’s “guards” have participated in these kinds of attacks in Ecuador and elsewhere too in the past few years. They do on Erdogan’s orders.
They know it is illegal to attack demonstrators in a foreign country.
The audio of this DC attack is available all over the Web. Erdogan gives explicit orders to attack.
This is a kick in the groin to Trump and America. Who says the US has to take this lying down? Turkey needs the US a lot more than vice versa, something even US officials have never understood as they humble themselves before Turkey decade after decade. Politico has an article saying that Trump can’t do anything because he needs Turkey? Huh? Turkey needs the US.
It’s embarrassing.