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Turkey attacks Kurdish protesters as world shrugs

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Turkey attacks Kurdish protesters as world shrugs

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Turkish security forces violently attacking Kurdish protesters in southeastern Turkey.

8/21/19
Protests over the dismissal of three Kurdish mayors from key cities in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast region continued for a third day amid shocking displays of police brutality against civilians. In the Kurds’ informal capital of Diyarbakir, Remziye Tosun, a lawmaker for the left-leaning and Kurd-friendly People’s Democratic Party (HDP), collapsed on the ground as riot police backed by armored personnel carriers sought to disperse protesting crowds with high-pressure hoses. Several journalists covering the scene were beaten by the police, who also used plastic bullets, tear gas and clubs. HDP lawmaker Ridvan Turan said before a modest crowd staging a sit-in outside the building, “Appointing a state administrator is a denial of democracy, a denial of basic rights and freedoms, a denial of a people’s right to govern themselves.” Turan continued, “The government believes that by sowing chaos it can perpetuate its rule. The administrator will go and we will send the fascist [Justice and Development Party] AKP and [its nationalist allies] to the dustbin.”

In the province of Van, Mayor Bedia Ozgokce Ertan’s functions will be carried out by state-appointed Governor Mehmet Emin Bilmez. His first action upon taking office was to remove a portrait of the country’s secular founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and replace it with one of Erdogan. Today, he dissolved the municipal council. Scenes from Van of police beating a young protester with their clubs and repeatedly kicking him and hitting him on the head went viral on social media, triggering a furious response. HDP lawmaker Ahmet Sik tweeted, “If you want to know what fascism is, what barbarism is, watch this.” Mustafa Yeneroglu, an AKP lawmaker from Istanbul, joined the chorus of condemnations. “These scenes in Van are horrible,” he tweeted and vowed that the offending officers would be fired and prosecuted. The reaction from Turkey’s allies over its latest display of undemocratic behavior has been pretty muted. The European Union issued a mild rebuke, stating Aug. 20, “The replacement of Selcuk Mizrakli, Bedia Ozgokce Ertan and Ahmet Turk by state governors is of serious concern as it puts the respect of the democratic outcomes of the 31 March elections into question." The State Department made similarly tame remarks today. "It's always concerning when you see the removal of elected officials and their replacement by unelected officials."
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The dictatorial Erdogan regime is removing Kurds that won elections in southeast Turkey from office. The Turkish government is suppressing news of Kurdish protests and their violent response. For the life of me I can't understand why the West still treats the anti-Democratic Erdogan government with kid gloves. What will it take ... another Turkish genocide on a people?

Related: Removal of Kurdish mayors prompts fears of wider crackdown on Turkey’s opposition
 
Rogue Valley said:
Turkey attacks Kurdish protesters as world shrugs

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Turkish security forces violently attacking Kurdish protesters in southeastern Turkey.



The dictatorial Erdogan regime is removing Kurds that won elections in southeast Turkey from office. The Turkish government is suppressing news of Kurdish protests and their violent response. For the life of me I can't understand why the West still treats the anti-Democratic Erdogan government with kid gloves. What will it take ... another Turkish genocide on a people?

Related: Removal of Kurdish mayors prompts fears of wider crackdown on Turkey’s opposition
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It's tricky. Turkey is a member of NATO and of the European Union.

As a matter of fact, should it not be the EU that deals with this problem?
 
LowDown said:
It's tricky. Turkey is a member of NATO and of the European Union.

As a matter of fact, should it not be the EU that deals with this problem?
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Turkey is not a member of the EU. In the late 2000 and early 2010's it was trying to, but the EU rejected Turkey for a variety of issues
 
Rogue Valley said:
Turkey attacks Kurdish protesters as world shrugs

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Turkish security forces violently attacking Kurdish protesters in southeastern Turkey.



The dictatorial Erdogan regime is removing Kurds that won elections in southeast Turkey from office. The Turkish government is suppressing news of Kurdish protests and their violent response. For the life of me I can't understand why the West still treats the anti-Democratic Erdogan government with kid gloves. What will it take ... another Turkish genocide on a people?

Related: Removal of Kurdish mayors prompts fears of wider crackdown on Turkey’s opposition
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Not much the west can do

It trades with Saudi Arabia which is an oppressive state, which treats its minorities even worse. It is involved in a war in which it has been targeting civilians. It murdered a journalist in a consulate, it threatened to invade Qatar, and yet the US, the EU still trade with it. Still sell it weapons to that country
 
Rogue Valley said:
Turkey attacks Kurdish protesters as world shrugs

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Turkish security forces violently attacking Kurdish protesters in southeastern Turkey.



The dictatorial Erdogan regime is removing Kurds that won elections in southeast Turkey from office. The Turkish government is suppressing news of Kurdish protests and their violent response. For the life of me I can't understand why the West still treats the anti-Democratic Erdogan government with kid gloves. What will it take ... another Turkish genocide on a people?

Related: Removal of Kurdish mayors prompts fears of wider crackdown on Turkey’s opposition
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Because the US is hypocritical a holes, that's why. We are allies with Saudi Arabia, the most f'd up country on the planet, with civili right abuses, and who are slaughtering people in Yemen. This myth of "we are all about democracy" is complete garbage. THe US would prop up Hitler if he was alive today if it was beneficial to US businesses


Also, we are locking people in cages under inhuman conditions, indefinitely, so really, who is the US to complain about treatment
 
Don't look to Trump. All Ergodan has to do it get him on the phone and Trump will tweet out new pro-Turkey policy changes without even bothering to inform his national security advisors of the change first.
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
Not much the west can do

It trades with Saudi Arabia which is an oppressive state, which treats its minorities even worse. It is involved in a war in which it has been targeting civilians. It murdered a journalist in a consulate, it threatened to invade Qatar, and yet the US, the EU still trade with it. Still sell it weapons to that country
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To be fair, the US Congress passed a bipartisan bill denying weapon sales to Saudi Arabia.

Trump declared a bogus "national emergency" as a way around the will of Congress.
 
Rogue Valley said:
To be fair, the US Congress passed a bipartisan bill denying weapon sales to Saudi Arabia.

Trump declared a bogus "national emergency" as a way around the will of Congress.
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The UK is trying to push a major weapons deal through to SA, Germany is trying to block it. Canada has an order for armoured vehicles that are to go to SA
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
The UK is trying to push a major weapons deal through to SA, Germany is trying to block it. Canada has an order for armoured vehicles that are to go to SA
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Unfortunately, what other nations do is beyond the remit of the US Congress.

But your thesis is correct. There's more than enough hypocrisy to go around.
 
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