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| The Grand Turk |
| US warns of anti-American violence risk in Turkey |
| 2017-01-27 |
| [IsraelTimes] American consulate says ’extremist groups’ are persisting in ’frequent and aggressive efforts to attack US citizens’. The United States embassy in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Thursday warned against the risk of attacks against its citizens in the country after a rise in anti-American rhetoric. Turkey has been hit by a slew of attacks over the last months claimed by jihadists and Kurdish turbans that have left the country on edge. The attacks prompted claims in the radical conservative press that the United States had a hand in the violence, although the allegations have been repeatedly and angrily denied by the embassy. "An increase in anti-American rhetoric has the potential to inspire independent actors to carry out acts of violence against US citizens," the embassy said in a travel warning. It said new attacks could occur at major events, tourist sites, restaurants, nightclubs, shopping centres, places of worship, and transportation hubs. An October order for family members of employees posted to the US Consulate in Istanbul to depart Turkey temporarily remains in place, it added. Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... all US government travel to Istanbul is subject to State Department approval, it said. This is based on intelligence "indicating bad boy groups are continuing frequent and aggressive efforts to attack US citizens and foreign expatriates in areas of Istanbul where they reside or frequent," it said. Several Turkish officials and media outlets blamed the United States for the failed July 15 coup aimed at toppling President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , allegations ridiculed by Washington. Turkish holy man Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania on July 18, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Urbain) Turkish holy man Fethullah Gulen at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania on July 18, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Urbain) The alleged criminal mastermind of the plot, the preacher Fethullah Gulen, lives in the United States but has denied any links to the putsch. Washington has so far not yielded to persistent Turkish requests to extradite Gulen, increasing tensions in relations and raising the hackles of Erdogan’s supporters. In another sign of the poor atmosphere, Erdogan on December 27 accused the United States of supporting "terror groups" in Syria, even including Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadists. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 independent actors = Gray Wolves |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-01-27 11:31 |
| #4 Orange ya glad I didn't triple post. In which my attempt at moderating efficiency ruins a oerfectly good joke. Sorry about that, Shipman. But I am glad she didn't triple post, yes. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-27 10:45 |
| #3 gonna be a long room-bound day for ya, Ship. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2017-01-27 09:19 |
| #2 Knocky knock: Who thar? Orange! Orange who? Orange ya glad I didn't triple post. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2017-01-27 08:38 |
| #1 knock knock: are you fethulah gullen? "yes? are you mormons? I'm a bit busy right now, no time ..." No, i'm here to ask you if you fomented a coup in Turkey. "whaaa?" You heard "I moved to Pennsylvania years ago...." |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-01-27 05:05 |