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@Duluth said in Erdogan in the US:
This video was released today showing the view Erdogan would have had of the incident
It looks like instructions were given from the car before the security went over to the protesters
What an asshole.
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@gollum said in Erdogan in the US:
The bit I loved about that was she refused to get out of the car so they brought in a truck & told her they were going to load her car onto it & drive it out of the Netrherlands.
She exited the car
not sure how i missed this. What happened?
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@JC said in Erdogan in the US:
@gollum said in Erdogan in the US:
The bit I loved about that was she refused to get out of the car so they brought in a truck & told her they were going to load her car onto it & drive it out of the Netrherlands.
She exited the car
not sure how i missed this. What happened?
Copied from the cesspit that is reddit....
"Erdogan wanted the Turkish population to vote to give him more power (basically he's trying to become a dictator) He wants Turks in other countries (like the Netherlands) to vote as well, and to ensure they'd vote for him, he sent out government officials to convince the Dutch turks to vote for him.
The Dutch government did NOT appreciate him spreading his dictator message in Holland and explicitly forbade erdogans minister to come to Holland. erdogan threatened the dutch government and sent her anyway. The Dutch authorities told them she would be denied entry at the airport so they went to Germany and then went by car. Dutch intelligence got word of this, went to intercept them, but they sent multiple convoys as decoys, and she got through all the way to the Turkish embassy in Rotterdam (the other side of the country, at the coast)
She finally got stopped in the city itself, her body guards got out, trying to intimidate, etc. They had a lot of turks already out there and even though she was forbidden to do so she tried to talk to them anyway, the entire thing turned into a riot circus, and armed police was requested because of fears that these bodyguards would become violent. In the end she was forced back to germany under police escort.
Mission accomplished, Turkey knew very damn well what would happen, forced the issue anyway, and afterwards got to play the victim card, calling the Dutch Nazis." -
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
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@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
Yeah , there is some decent stuff on there but the subreddits populated by angry virgins are best avoided.
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@jegga said in Erdogan in the US:
@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
Yeah , there is some decent stuff on there but the subreddits populated by angry virgins are best avoided.
Probably a bit harsh calling it a cesspit then a bit like calling the fern a cesspit over the US politics thread.
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@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
If its not a cesspit, you are not looking at the right subreddits
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@Stockcar86 said in Erdogan in the US:
@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
If its not a cesspit, you are not looking at the right subreddits
Maybe it says more about the readers tastes then the platform.
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@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
@Stockcar86 said in Erdogan in the US:
@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
If its not a cesspit, you are not looking at the right subreddits
Maybe it says more about the readers tastes then the platform.
It's a bit of both really. The site tends to be populated by a certain demographic of young, liberal andeducated people. The upvoting format doesn't allow for decent especially in polarised discussions like politics. At least on this forum, we have to see the opinion's of people we disagree with.
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@Stockcar86 Thanks for that. I knew about the incident, didn't know it escalated to look like that.
Anyway, fuck him. Ataturk must be spinning in his grave.
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Reddit Rugby is excellent for clips & highlights (and full games), terrible for discussion
https://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion/
Reddit Politics -
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/?hl=
Is again, excellent for all the breaking US news, the comments are 80% garbage 20% excellent, like most of the net.
People tend to hit the front page of Reddit & go "this is garbage", but if you login & find a few subreddits that are interesting its great.
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@Tim said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit politics is a horror story. As a reddit/cumtown poster put it, "politics are gay, internet politics are gayer". True shit, even Aaron would agree.
The links or the posts? Because the links are great, they break literally every major US politics story, you just have to click the link not read whats posted about it... thats... bad.
Right now its nothing but stories nailing Trump, but thats because right now the top stories in the US poilitics are about Trump.
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Problem is most people who use Reddit politics don't even read the links. Most people just read the headlines and then upvote. So you literally have a situation where the political news you read is decided upon by people too lazy to even read the article themselves. I think post the election last year, every day a new article detailing how much Clinton won the popular vote was upvoted highly. I don't know how anyone could call that news.
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Sometimes the rabid parts of reddit can be amusing in their awfulness, this one targets Lena Dunham who I loathe probably not as much as these people
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4eiwds/fuck_off_lena_dunham_you_absolute_cretin/
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Turkish Guards Will Be Charged in Embassy Protest, Officials Say
By NICHOLAS FANDOS JUNE 14, 2017
THE NEW YORK TIMESWASHINGTON — Law enforcement officials plan to announce charges Thursday against a dozen members of the Turkish president’s security detail for their involvement in a brutal attack on protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence here last month, two American officials said on Wednesday.
Authorities have already charged several others, including two Americans and two Canadians, with taking part in the violent skirmish.
The Washington police have been investigating the May 16 incident along with the State Department and the Secret Service. The police planned to announce the charges at a news conference on Thursday morning, according to the two officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the charges before they were made public.
Coming almost a month after the incident, the charges are the most significant retaliatory step taken to date by American authorities, who have fumed privately and publicly over what they see as a highly offensive attack on free speech — not to mention American law enforcement.
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Sadly most of the Turkish henchmen are back home and unlikely to be extradited. So I guess it's mostly finger-wagging optics.
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