Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has furiously condemned the US decision to issue arrest warrants to 12 members of his security detail because of their involvement in a bloody brawl with peaceful protesters in Washington DC last month.
In a dramatic escalation of tensions between two Nato allies, Erdoğan said on Thursday that his government would "fight politically and judicially" against the warrants that had been issued earlier in the day.
[...] The ministry said in a statement that the ambassador was told the decision to issue arrest warrants was "wrong, biased and lacks legal basis".
"That the brawl in front of the Turkish Ambassador's Residence was caused by the failure of local security authorities to take necessary measures; that this incident would not have occurred if the US authorities had taken the usual measures they take in similar high level visits and therefore that Turkish citizens cannot be held responsible for the incident that took place," the statement said.
Erdoğan echoed these statements in televised remarks on Thursday night. "Why would I take my guards to the United States if not to protect myself?" he said.
[...] US senator John McCain called for Turkey's ambassador to the US to be removed from the country because of the fight and to charge those involved with the incident.
"After all, they violated American laws in the United States of America, so you cannot have that happen in the United States of America," McCain told MSNBC last month. "People have the right in our country to peacefully demonstrate and they were peacefully demonstrating."
The House committee on foreign affairs echoed the senators' call in a letter to secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. "Alarmingly, this behavior is indicative of the broad crackdowns on political activists, journalists and religious freedom in Turkey that have greatly harmed Turkish democracy in recent years," the letter said.
Source: The Guardian
In 2011 an incident happened at the UN, Ban-Ki Moon apologized to Turkey for a "misunderstanding" which left UN security officers injured.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Sunday June 18 2017, @08:46PM (1 child)
I would normally pass this as sarcasm trying to express the point but I'm not sure anymore. Because this is actually something people like to say as if to go "well america sucks at democracy so it doesn't deserve to be a republic".
Speaking of that though, I saw shit like that (this project isn't a democracy) from people that couldn't come up with a justification to be pricks in open source. Recall seeing the same kind of arguments being used for libreboot and other drama. Because one thing both the "liberals" and "conservatives" like to do is hijack the principles of democracy in one direction or the other if it suits their argument.
America's status as a shit democracy was kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy of people not wanting it to be one mixed with people that thought it couldn't be a republic, I feel. Other people will repeat the spirit of that statement thinking that the opinion or well-to-doness of their representative is anywhere on the same stratosphere as their own.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @04:38PM
I wouldn't take it as sarcasm. The US preaches "Democracy" pretty hard, especially to ourselves. It's almost as if we are trying to convince ourselves of something we really don't believe.
On the other hand, plutocracy may be an appropriate term for the US. See "Free Speech Zones" or
Testing Theories of American Politics [princeton.edu]