This guy Erdogan seems more and more out of control and a loose cannon to me....
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Kamakazee <[email protected]> wrote: > Turkish President Erdogan Blames Dutch for Srebrenica > > In an escalation of the bitter row between the Netherlands and Turkey, > Tayyip Recep Erdogan accused the Dutch of responsibility for the massacres > of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995. > > > The burial in 2010 of some of the victims of the Srebrenica massacre. > Photo: Juniki San/Wikimedia Commons. > > Turkish president Recep Tayip Erdogan blamed the Dutch for the Srebrenica > massacres during a live televised address on Tuesday, causing outrage in > the Netherlands. > > “We know the Dutch from the Srebrenica massacre. We know how rotten their > character is from their massacre of 8,000 Bosnians there,” Erdogan said > in the speech. > > > Dutch premier Mark Rutte hit back at Erdogan’s accusation in an interview > broadcast by Dutch broadcaster RTL Z on Tuesday afternoon, calling the > comments a “disgusting distortion of history”. > > > After Bosnian Serb forces overran the eastern Bosnian in July 1995, > several hundred Bosniaks sought refuge inside the UN peacekeepers’ base in > nearby Potocari, but were handed to the Serbs by Dutch peacekeepers and > subsequently killed. > > > Serb forces then executed over 7,000 more Bosniak men and boys in > massacres that have been defined as genocide by international court rulings. > > Erdogan’s accusation was the latest escalation in a high-level diplomatic > spat between Turkey and the Netherlands, which provoked the Turkish > premier’s ire at the weekend by banning his foreign minister and family > affairs minister from attending rallies in the country. > > > The ministers had planned to join rallies attempted to convince Turks > living in the Netherlands to vote for the president’s powers to be expanded > in a referendum on April 16. > > > In response to the ban, Erdogan has suspended high-level relations between > the two countries and accused the Dutch of behaving like Nazis. > > In July 2014, the District Court in The Hague ruled that the Dutch > peacekeepers had failed to protect the Bosniaks who sought refuge in > Potocari, and ordered the Netherlands to pay compensation to hundreds of > victims. > > > However, in August 2015, a Dutch military appeals court ruled that the > commanders of the UN peacekeeping mission in Srebrenica could not be > prosecuted. > > Hasan Nuhanovic, a Srebrenica survivor and former translator for the UN > peacekeepers, and the family of Rizo Mustafic, who was killed by Serb > forces, had appealed against a decision not to charge three former > ‘Dutchbat’ peacekeepers with war crimes. > > http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/turkish-president- > erdogan-blames-dutch-for-srebrenica-03-14-2017 > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
