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Veteran Diplomat Antony Blinken To Serve As Secretary Of State, Harshly Criticized Turkey
[NewsMax] Secretary of State Antony Blinken agrees with former President Trump’s approach to China, which should make his career interesting.

New US Secretary of State already kicks off tenure with harsh criticism of Turkey
From a week ago, but on a subject we thought President Trump was too lenient.
[AlMasdar] The President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN Ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island...
’s candidate for Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, accused The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
 of not acting as an ally, pointing to the possibility of further sanctions being imposed on Ankara because of its purchase of the S-400″system.

Last month, Washington imposed sanctions on the Ottoman Turkish military industries due to Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems, in a move Turkey described as a "fatal mistake."

Furthermore, Blinken said at a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee meeting that discussed his candidacy:

"The idea that our strategic partner, or so-called strategic partner, is in fact working with one of our major strategic competitors in Russia, is unacceptable."

A day before the inauguration of Joe Biden as President to succeed Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
, who has close ties to Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
, Blinken said: "I think we need to look at the impact of the current sanctions and then determine if there is more to be done."

Blinken continued in the same context, saying that "Turkey is an ally that does not act as it should, and this is a very big challenge for us and we are very clear about it."

It is noteworthy to add that the sanctions imposed by Washington on Turkey had won bipartisan support in Congress, and were declared under the Anti-United States Enemies Through Sanctions Act.
Posted by: ee green 2021-01-27
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