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The Grand Turk
Turkey's Erdogan says Saudi executions 'internal legal matter'
2016-01-07
[Al Ahram] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
on Wednesday refused to condemn Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
for its execution of 47 convicts including a prominent Shia holy man, saying it was an "internal legal matter" of the kingdom.

"The executions in Saudi Arabia are an internal legal matter. Whether you approve or not of the decision is a separate issue," Erdogan, who last month visited Riyadh in a new sign of Ankara's warm ties with the kingdom, said in a televised speech in his first reaction to the controversy
Posted by:Fred

#3  Extermination of the Kurds and Armenians was also an "internal legal matter" wrt Turkey.

The man has SOME sense, realizing he lives in a glass house and shouldn't throw BIG stones.
Posted by: ptah   2016-01-07 10:01  

#2  That, and simple admiration.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-01-07 08:59  

#1  Turkish economy is in the pits?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-01-07 06:00  

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