SPECKHARD: As Turkey’s Erdogan Visits White House, Remember He Is No Friend To US
Anne Speckhard
International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism
November 12, 2019 2:00 PM ET
“Will Erdogan’s thugs try to hurt me?†was my first question upon being invited to speak at a rally in front of the White House during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s upcoming visit. The rally is to halt Turkey’s attack on the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), our allies in northeastern Syria who are fighting ISIS. Turkey has displaced over 160,000 Syrians and killed at least 90 civilians, including women and children.
It isn’t a foolish question, given that the last time Erdogan visited Washington, Turkish security “officers†harmed several U.S. federal agents, and at least one D.C. policeman was punched in the nose causing massive blood flow. Another melee occurred when members of his security detail roughed up demonstrators and attempted to evict Turkish journalists from attending his speech. Strobe Talbott, president of Brookings, was so upset that he personally went out to escort the journalists back into the building and it was reported that he even threatened to cancel Erdogan’s talk if his thugs didn’t stand down.
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https://twitter.com/AnneSpeckhardThis writer is very interesting and the Daily Caller is posting some of her articles. She does seem to tweet quite a lot about all of this.
