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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on October 16, 2017, 11:32:40 am
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NYT: US should remove nuclear weapons from Turkey before relations collapse
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A New York Times editorial published on Friday suggests that the US move some 50 tactical nuclear weapons stationed at Turkey’s İncirlik Airbase before Turkish-American relations collapse.
According to the NYT editorial, the relationship between Turkey and the US has deteriorated dramatically as Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has violated basic civil liberties and other democratic norms, is buying a Russian air defense system and is holding American citizens hostage.
The NYT said Erdoğan has long used the US as a whipping boy to divert attention from his political problems, most recently falsely implicating Washington in a failed coup last year and using a post-coup roundup of alleged enemies, which includes about a dozen Americans and also some Turkish nationals who work at American diplomatic missions in Turkey.
Read more at: https://www.turkishminute.com/2017/10/14/nyt-us-should-remove-nuclear-weapons-from-turkey-before-relations-collapse/
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What's that they say about a broken clock...? ;)