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[KDR_11k]

This whole thing has escalated further since the last thread about it so I figure a new one is fair:

Erdoğan says Turkey to boycott US ambassador over visa row

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed that Turkish officials will boycott the US ambassador, deepening one of the worst rifts in decades between the Nato allies.

Erdoğan said he no longer regarded outgoing envoy John Bass as the US representative to Turkey after American missions in the country stopped issuing visas.

So what happened? Turkey accursed a staffer (a Turk) of being a terrorist, their usual accusation against anyone Erdogan doesn't like. The US thinks this is another one of those bullshit cases.

Erdoğan said the arrest of the consulate staffer, based on evidence found by the police, shows “something is going on at the Istanbul consulate.”

“The US should evaluate one thing: how did those agents leak into the consulate?” Erdoğan said.

Some Turkish officials have long alleged a US hand in the coup attempt on 15 July last year, which Ankara blames on the US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen.

Washington has dismissed claims it was involved as a ludicrous conspiracy theory, and on Tuesday it said it has seen no evidence linking its Turkish employees to a plot.

Bonus: Another person got accused, hid in the embassy... and the state took his family hostage! Because nothing makes your actions look like legitimate law enforcement like arresting someone's family to make them come out of hiding.

On Monday, Turkish prosecutors summoned another local employee working at the American consulate in Istanbul, the Anadolu news agency said.

The man is reportedly in hiding at the consulate but the Turkish authorities on Monday detained his wife and his son, and on Tuesday detained his daughter.

The most wideranging effect is that visas for anything other than permanent residence are no longer being issued. Means no work, study or other movement, only people who want to permanently relocate.

 

[Bitch Pudding]

 

[kess]

Time for another Trump rally

 

[Shadybiz]

Meanwhile, we have a President who most likely couldn't find Turkey on a map...

 

[Kolx]

The tension has been growing even before Trump took office, and Trump as with all the other problem wasn't going to improve it.

 

[Jackpot]

They also sentenced a WSJ journalist in absentia to 2 years in prison for 'terrorist propaganda'.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/10/wall-street-journal-turkey-ayla-albayrak-prison

A Wall Street Journal reporter has been convicted of producing “terrorist propaganda” in Turkey and sentenced to more than two years in prison, in a ruling that has drawn sharp criticism from press freedom advocates.

Ayla Albayrak, who was charged over an August 2015 article in the newspaper, was convicted in absentia, and was in New York at the time the decision was made.

This was the story in question:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/urban-...turkeys-kurdish-majority-southeast-1440024103

Urban Warfare Escalates in Turkey’s Kurdish-Majority Southeast

PKK-linked separatists battle security forces

Where are all the Erdogan stans now? Probably moved on to their new BLM and Catalan assignments.

 

[Dierce]

Terrorists denouncing those against them of being terrorist. Idiots who spread fake news accusing those who say the truth of spreading false information. This is the world we live in now, or maybe it has always been like this. In any case, thank you Putin for cultivating this disease.

 

[theechrisfox]

Meanwhile, we have a President who most likely couldn't find Turkey on a map...

Admiration and adulation know no maps. Erdogan is a god to the USA's wannabe dictator.

 

[Earthbound64]

Meanwhile, we have a President who most likely couldn't find Turkey on a map...

[insert deli/sandwich joke here]

 

[kirblar]

Meanwhile, we have a President who most likely couldn't find Turkey on a map...

Or a menu.

 

[Kthulhu]

Admiration and adulation know no maps. Erdogan is a god to the USA's wannabe dictator.

You're probably right. Trump wishes he had the power and love that Erdogan and other authoritarians have.

 

[NastyBook]

Or a menu.

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