Trump Should Not Have Shared A Podium With Erdowang and Now Needs To Put Him In His Place

[ScottL]

Erdogan Watched as His Guards Attacked Protesters in Washington - Nichlas Fandos
New video surfaced on Thursday that shows President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey looking on as armed members of his security team violently charge a group of protesters outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington.
U.S. investigators were paying particular attention to two members of the Turkish security detail who assaulted American Diplomatic Security officers. The men were briefly detained at the scene Tuesday and their guns confiscated, but when it was determined that they held diplomatic status, they were promptly released. The two men remain the subject of an active criminal investigation and will not be allowed to re-enter the U.S. (New York Times)

 

[ScottL]

A Thug in Washington

An attack on American values.
Noah Rothman / May 17, 2017


AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Perhaps unaccustomed to America’s tradition of free and unfettered expression, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s bodyguards reacted like animals when confronted by protesters demonstrating near D.C.’s “embassy row” on Tuesday. Photos and videos of the scene reveal a disturbing melee between Turkish thugs and demonstrators. Washington D.C.’s police chief called it a “brutal attack,” and it was.

Young women were thrown to the ground and beaten by Erdoğan’s security staff. Demonstrators were kicked in the face. Turkish security resisted police directives in a seeming effort to injure as many protesters as they could. In the end, eleven people were hurt, including a police officer. Nine people were hospitalized, and two were arrested.

This is hardly the first incident of violence on American soil perpetrated by those loyal to the thug in Ankara. In March of 2016, Erdoğan traveled to Washington to attend a summit on nuclear security. He stopped by the Brookings Institution to deliver a highly anticipated speech. There, the Turkish president was met with protesters, but Turkish governmental security did not distinguish between protesters and passers-by when meting out violence.

“Never seen anything like this,” wrote Vox.com correspondent Yochi Dreazen at the time. “A female protester just tackled. DC cops are in the street trying to keep Turkish guards from hurting folks.” Foreign Policy’s Paul McLeary reported that one of the security guards assaulted a Brookings employee. Reporters filed dispatches in which they described Turkish security verbally and physically assaulting them. “People shouting in the streets don’t know what’s going on in Turkey,” Erdoğan said dismissively of the event, conflating the protesters with Kurdish sympathizers. “The international community doesn’t even label terrorists ‘terrorists’ these days.”

Outside the United Nations in New York City in 2011, Erdoğan’s bodyguards allegedly attacked United Nations security personnel when Erdoğan tried to enter the general assembly to witness a controversial address by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. An account of the attack authored by UN staff union’s Timothy Kennedy and addressed to the head of security at Turtle Bay, recalled how Turkish authorities “shoved many officers, fraudulently utilized ministerial IDs, and assaulted at least one of our officers.”

Erdoğan’s staff clearly has about as much respect for American freedoms as they do Turkish liberties. There is no reason that America’s diplomatic establishment has to tolerate this behavior from the increasingly autocratic Erdoğan government, but the Trump administration seems no less interested in responding to this insult than did the Obama administration. “We are communicating our concern to the Turkish government in the strongest possible terms,” the State Department announced. If this is all the indignation the United States can summon, Erdogan’s thugs will continue to abuse American hospitality.

 

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1hEvan Siegfried
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[h=1]So far, the United States hasn't stood up to this thuggery by Turkey. White House and State Dept have failed to condemn. Makes us look weak [/h]

 

[919]

Meanwhile, it's Turkey who summons our ambassador over the beating of protesters, not the other way around.


Turkey summons U.S ambassador over Washington brawlusatoday.com

 

[ScottL]

The POS Erdowang's tentacles reach far and wide:


Thunder's Kanter wants to be U.S. citizen, getting death threats By The Sports Xchange / Monday, May 22, 2017


Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter, who was detained in Romania over the weekend after his passport was revoked apparently stemming from his political views regarding his native Turkey, said he wants to become an American citizen and revealed he is receiving death threats.
The United States "is my home now," Kanter said Monday. He plans to take steps toward becoming a U.S. citizen.


"Right now I am country-less," Kanter said at a news conference at the National Basketball Players Association headquarters in New York. "I am open to adoption definitely. I am going to try to become an American citizen. I have a green card. We will see if they can speed up the process a little bit. It would definitely be nice. Right now my next move is becoming an American citizen."


Kanter has been an outspoken critic of Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kanter said Turkey canceled his passport in retaliation for his political views.


"It was of course scary," Kanter said of his whirlwind trip, returning to the United States on Sunday. "It was scary because there was a chance they might send me back to Turkey. And if they send me back to Turkey, probably you guys wouldn't hear a word from me the second day. It would have definitely gotten really ugly."


Kanter said he is receiving death threats "every day" on social media, including two on Monday.
Kanter previously called the Turkey president "the Hitler of our century" in a video he posted on Twitter while being detained in Romania on Saturday.


Kanter said Monday that Erdogan and the Turkish government have tried to silence anyone who speaks out against their power.


Erdogan, who met with President Trump last week at the White House, has declared a new state of emergency in Turkey -- arresting 120 journalists, closing more than 150 news outlets and jailing 140,000 people, according to news reports.


Kanter said he was "shocked" Erdogan was in Washington D.C. While there, Erdogan's bodyguards were captured on video attacking protesters outside the Turkish ambassador's home on Embassy Row.


"He's a terrible man," Kanter said Monday. "I hope the world does something about it. ... I hope the whole world is watching. Once these people get to jail, it's not over for them.


"People are getting kidnapped, murdered, tortured, and raped. I love my country, but I'm just trying to speak up for innocent people. ... There are thousands of people out there with situations worse than mine."


Kanter said his family's life in Turkey is in danger and he can't communicate with them.


"If they contact me, they'll be put in jail," Kanter said. "The jails are not fun."


Appearing on "CBS This Morning" on Monday, Kanter described his road back to the U.S.


Kanter said the trouble began in Indonesia when his manager knocked at his door and said Secret Service and the Indonesian army were looking for him because the Turkish government had called him a "dangerous man."


"I was sleeping around 2:30 or something and my manager knocked on my door," Kanter said on the CBS show. "He said the Secret Service and the Indonesian army were looking for me because the Turkish government told them I was a dangerous man.


"We didn't know what we had to do. We escaped the country and went to Singapore, then we came to Romania."


Kanter said later at the news conference that he will not travel internationally and hopes the Thunder and the NBA will be able to help him gain clearance to travel to Canada next season when the Thunder play the Toronto Raptors.


"I have my green card (from) last year," Kanter said of gaining U.S. citizenship. "The process takes five years. I think I have another three and a half, four more years but I am going to try to speed up the process.


"When I am back in Oklahoma, a lot of people say, 'Oh welcome home.' I feel like this is my home now. I see all this support, teammates, senators and everybody was supporting (me). I feel like this is my home now, definitely."


The 6-foot-11, 245-pound Kanter averaged 14.3 points and 6.7 rebounds in 72 games this season for the Thunder. He was selected with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz before getting traded to the Thunder in February 2015.

 

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Newly released footage by @VOATurkish, shows (we marked it) that the attack on "American" protestors appears to be ordered by Erdogan himself.
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The @nytimes identifies the pro-Erdogan thugs who beat up protesters in DC


Did the Turkish President’s Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington? What the Video Showsnytimes.com

 

[SheriffJoe]

At least this NBA player put him in his place. @)

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Turkey wants NBA star ARRESTED for calling Erdogan ‘Hitler’ – so he MOCKS him more!

MAY. 26, 2017 7:09 PM BY SOOPERMEXICAN • NO COMMENTS

The burgeoning Muslim totalitarian state of Turkey is demanding that an NBA star be arrested because he called President Erdogan “Hitler.”

The government of Turkey is seeking the arrest of Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter for his supposed involvement in a “terror group.”

Agence France-Presse (AFP) detailed the legal action against Kanter in a Friday report. A judge in Istanbul signed the warrant on Friday after a “prosecutor opened an investigation into Kanter’s alleged ‘membership of an armed terrorist organisation.’”

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What is the Oklahoma City Thunder “armed” with?? Three-pointers??!

AFP noted that the professional basketball player “previously backed Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen in Twitter postings after an attempted putsch last July aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.”

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Man, I don’t know about this. Erdogan is likely to take matters into his own hands in order to frighten other dissidents. I really hope this guy is taking proper precautions.

As el Scoopo reminds me, Mike Flynn wanted Trump to hand over Fethullah, his political enemy. It would be a much greater thing to hand over this guy though.

I mean, he’s a social media star!

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According to AFP, his response on Twitter was to mock Turkish officials even more: “You cannot catch me. Hahaha. Don’t waste your energy. I am already going to come to (Turkey) to spit on all of your ugly, hate-filled faces.”

God bless this guy!!

Read more about nutcase and-quite-possibly-this-century’s-Hitler Erdogan here.

 

[ScottL]

The C0cksucker Erdowang has issued an arrest warrant for Kanter.

 

[PatsFan1283]

Hope Kanter doesn't have too much family he cares about back in Turkey. Doesn't seem like the best idea to openly taunt a brutal dictator.

If the guy had protesters beaten up on US soil then who knows what he is gonna do back home.

 

[ScottL]

Lest we forget: Erdowang is the POS who sent the islamic hate flotilla toward Israel with armed terrorists and whackjob far leftys to show solidarity with the murder enclave in Gaza. Israel's navy intercepted the ships causing an intl incident where the twisted 'world community' lined up vs Israel. Several years later after Obama's visit to Israel he pressured Netanyahu to call Erdowang and apologize.

 

[ScottL]

Thunder C Kanter says father was arrested in Turkey

By The Sports Xchange / Friday, June 2, 2017


The father of Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter has been detained by the Turkish government.
The NBA player, with a warrant out for his own arrest in his native country, tweeted Friday morning that his father, Mehmet Kanter, was arrested in Turkey.


"HEY WORLD, MY DAD HAS BEEN ARRESTED by Turkish government and the Hitler of our century. He is potentially to get tortured as thousand others," Kanter wrote on Twitter.


Enes Kanter is an outspoken critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a known supporter of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, a spiritual leader who has been in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania for the past 15 years.
CNN reported that Kanter's father was detained by security forces in Istanbul's Kadikoy district "as a part of the ongoing investigation into FETO," according to Turkey's official news agency Anadolu.


FETO is the Turkish government's name for the followers of the Gulen, standing for "Fethullah Terrorist Organization."
The Turkish government accuses Gulen and the followers of being behind the failed coup against Erdogan on July 15, 2016, that left more than 200 people dead, according to CNN.


Enes Kanter, a six-year NBA veteran, has repeatedly called Erdogan "the Hitler of our century" and his Twitter account has been blocked in Turkey. He said recently that he has not spoken with his father in almost two years.


The Turkish government last week issued an arrest warrant for Kanter, claiming he was part of a terrorist group.
Kanter was briefly detained by airport officials in Romania on May 20 after having his passport revoked by the Turkish government, but he was able to return to the United States on May 22 with a green card.


After returning to the U.S., Kanter said his father was a former college professor who had been spit on at the grocery store because of his son's political views.


"Right now, even if I try to communicate with my parents, my mom or dad or brother or sister, (the government) will probably listen to their phones and as soon as they are in contact with me, they will put them in a jail -- and the jails are not fun," Kanter said at a news conference in New York upon his return. "Right now, my family can't even go out to eat. My brother told me that my dad went to the supermarket and they spit on his face."


The 25-year-old Kanter said recently he wants to become an American citizen.


"Right now I am country-less," Kanter said last month at the National Basketball Players Association headquarters in New York. "I am open to adoption definitely. I am going to try to become an American citizen. I have a green card. We will see if they can speed up the process a little bit. It would definitely be nice. Right now my next move is becoming an American citizen."


The 6-foot-11, 245-pound Kanter averaged 14.3 points and 6.7 rebounds in 72 games this season for the Thunder. He was selected with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz before getting traded to the Thunder in February 2015.

 

[PatsFan1283]

Activism is one thing but if he really believes Erdogan is the Hitler of our times, then maybe don't put your family in harms way and sacrifice them just to make a point.

Saw that coming from a mile away.

 

[ScottL]

"You can't fight City Hall" as mom says. Or talk a dictator into stepping down.

Such a beautiful country geographically. Can't believe people keep getting fooled into voting him access to more power.

Won't end well for the Kantors. Or the Erdowangs. But what will become of Turkey and its political system after Erdowang's fall?

 

[mplastered]

Activism is one thing but if he really believes Erdogan is the Hitler of our times, then maybe don't put your family in harms way and sacrifice them just to make a point.

Saw that coming from a mile away.

Fucking right, what a dumb fuck

 

[mplastered]

"You can't fight City Hall" as mom says. Or talk a dictator into stepping down.

Such a beautiful country geographically. Can't believe people keep getting fooled into voting him access to more power.

Won't end well for the Kantors. Or the Erdowangs. But what will become of Turkey and its political system after Erdowang's fall?

Are you serious? This country voted in Obama twice. The can do's of the world will always be out number by the low life's of the world.

 

[ScottL]

Turkish Guards to Be Charged in Washington Embassy Protests - Peter Hermann
D.C. authorities are to announce criminal charges Thursday against 12 members of Turkish President Erdogan's security detail who authorities say attacked protesters outside the ambassador's residence last month in Washington. Police officials say arrest warrants have been issued and that the suspects, all believed to be in Turkey, are now wanted in the U.S.
On May 26, the New York Times published a video-graphic tracking 24 Erdogan supporters during the fight, including 10 it identified as members of the president's formal security team and 6 dressed in khaki that were Turkish guards. (Washington Post)

 

[ScottL]

wrong thread

 

[ScottL]

Turkey Aims to Tighten Muslim Grip on Temple Mount - Nadav Shragai
Turkish foundations and organizations are funneling millions of dollars to eastern Jerusalem and the Temple Mount area to strengthen "Jerusalem's Muslim heritage and character." A portion of the funds are provided by the Turkish government, which funds the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA). Turkey's allies in the city are the head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, and the former mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Akram Sabri, both bitter enemies of the State of Israel.
Turkish national flags are on display everywhere in the Old City, while the intensive Turkish activity has eroded Jordan's influence and stature. Within the framework of its peace accord with Israel, Jordan was promised seniority status over Jerusalem's Islamic holy sites. (Israel Hayom)