why are we not talking about Turkey?

[zanejohnson]

this...

is a pretty big deal..

they are a nato ally, the whole alliance is at it's weakest moment it's been in 50 years...


it's been seriously ignored until right about now... main stream media just picked it up

 

[boochi]

I love turkey and dressing. Yum, Yum!

It is hard for the American media to follow what is happening abroad when all the scandal and patriot stories are happening here at home.

 

[blackangst1]

Was watching the Istanbul Square fiasco earlier...yikes

 

[Doppel]

I love turkey and dressing. Yum, Yum!

It is hard for the American media to follow what is happening abroad when all the scandal and patriot stories are happening here at home.

Probably true, also some burn out with this part of the world and uprisings.

 

[IGBT]

it doesn't fit the action line / sound bite agenda of american media established norms for turkey.

 

[JTsyo]

Had some that posted from Turkey in the other thread.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Why are we not talking about Turkey? Probably because Thanksgiving is months away and we don't have many Turks on the forum.

 

[IBMer]

I am actually in Germany right now and there was a small little protest when we first got here in the Schlossplatz in Stuttgart. We didn't know what it was really about till we saw the news about the police brutality.

 

[justoh]

It's Turkey. Don't we always ignore shit that happens there? Like genocide?

 

[lagokc]

It's Turkey. Don't we always ignore shit that happens there? Like genocide?

What genocide?

 

[finglobes]

The riots and protests are against an increasingly abusive Islamic gov growing more fundamentalist. The US media and Obama want to avoid that kind of narrative. Doesn't fit any moronic "Muslim Spring" theme. In Turkey it was the military that kept the sketchy theocrats from being too influential. Erdogan had many of the military sent to prison years ago. He wants Turkey to lead the Ummah.

 

[AmdEmAll]

It was in the news the other day but it is as expected completely gone from the news.. back to bengazi and the irs.

 

[Gintaras]

What genocide?

Genocide is ONLY ONE - when it's about jews. I'm not an antisemite and I'm against anti-semitism...

Turkish genocide against armenians....
American genocide against native americans - indians - aren't considered as genocides....

I think...that's why you wonmder in this tread about GENOCIDE.....