And of course, John & Chinless think Erdogan is doing a fine job!
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-er >> dogan-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.
