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The Grand Turk
Turkey's Erdogan slams US indictments as 'scandalous'
2017-09-02
[Al Ahram] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
on Friday denounced the indictments in the United States of 19 people, among them 15 Ottoman Turkish security officials, calling them "scandalous."

The 19 suspects have been accused of attacking peaceful demonstrators gathered outside the Ottoman Turkish ambassador's Washington home during a visit by Erdogan in May.

Videos show Erdogan supporters and security guards in suits and green uniforms hitting the protestors as police try to quash the violence. Some protestors are heard shouting "Baby killer Erdogan" and "Long live YPG," a Syrian Kurdish bad boy group that has become a sore spot in U.S.-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
relations.

Erdogan said his security detail was protecting him from members of the bad boy group after U.S. police failed to do so.

Turkey considers the YPG a terror organization and an extension of Kurdish forces of Evil waging a three-decade-long insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state, but the group is a key U.S. ally in Syria against the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

The bodyguards "performed their duties against this attack," Erdogan said and accused the U.S. of protecting a terror group. Nine people were hurt in the attack.

Sixteen of the defendants were charged in June while a grand jury decision on Tuesday added three more suspects, among them the head of security, Muhsin Kose.

Posted by:Fred

#1  If we have any nukes in that country, we need a serious purge of some senior military. The same types who said the loss of Subic and/or Clark would kill our security in the Pacific and dragged us for years in the mess called the Philippines.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-09-02 08:24  

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