Robert Fisk: The real reason for US tariffs on Turkey is Erdogan cuddling up to Putin and Iran - Independent.ie
Robert Fisk
August 17 2018 2:30 AM
It needs a stroke of genius to soften the heart for poor old Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Those of us who have always believed that Erdogan is a bit off his rocker must still be appalled that a US president infinitely more cracked than the Turkish variety is trying to impoverish Nato's second largest military ally.
True, Erdogan locked up 50,000 Turks - including an American pastor, of whom more later - after the attempted coup against him two years ago, but hasn't Egypt's president/field marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi broken this record by banging up 60,000 supposed Islamists in his own country's prisons?
And what about Haider al-Abadi's mass hangings in Iraq? Or that nasty little post-death crucifixion in Saudi Arabia this week, not to mention that horrid war in Yemen where kids seem to get killed all the time? Or the Israeli habit of shooting down scores of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza? Or that chump in North Korea who appeals to Trump's sense of humour?
Read more at: https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/robert-fisk-the-real-reason-for-us-tariffs-on-turkey-is-erdogan-cuddling-up-to-putin-and-iran-37224892.html
FWIW: Robert Fisk, veteran reporter born in the UK, attended school in Dublin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk
