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| The Grand Turk | |
| Turkish President thinks Obama campaign ‘master minds’ behind HDP | |
| 2015-10-30 | |
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... and the co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has reached Washington after the former suggested that a company that once managed U.S. President Barack Obama teachable moment... 's presidential election campaign has now been hired by the Kurdish problem-focused party to run its campaign for the Nov. 1 snap elections. "In these elections, the campaign management of a certain party is run by the team that managed Mr. Obama's campaign," Erdogan responded when asked about assumptions that a kaboom which killed four people at an HDP rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on June 5, two days before the parliamentary elections, had actually increased the HDP's votes by two percent. "This team had meetings with leading figures [of this party] in Istanbul. And at those meetings, they also gathered with certain media groups," Erdogan said late Oct. 28 during a live interview with Kanal 24 news channel. Accusing the HDP executive of constantly lying to people, particularly about their alleged link to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Erdogan said, "The team that runs that campaign tells [the HDP] 'Always use lies, always use insults because when a lie is constantly used, it eventually turns to truth.' This is the campaigning mind, the master mind. We have all of this information. When you look, they are implementing this exactly." Later in the night, HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas quoted a tweet of a journalist, which summarized what Erdogn said during the interview concerning the HDP's campaign. Demirtas then tweeted @BarackObama, "Look, it seems that there is something like this, you have never been telling me, the 'zalim.'" The Turkish word "zalim or zalim" (stony-hearted or cruel) is commonly used in folk songs and colloquially when somebody wants to voice bitter feelings toward a friendly person. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Oxymoron, yes. Moron as well. But he does like to meddle. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-10-30 16:40 |
| #3 It worked in Canada, but didn't work -- in spades! -- in Israel. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-10-30 12:49 |
| #2 Obama and masterminds? Oxymoron or just plain morons. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-10-30 10:47 |
| #1 Obama campaign ‘master minds’ I believe these to be mutually exclusive terms. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-10-30 06:43 |