Why is it that the US feels the need to appease Turkey on human rights but not other authoritarian regimes? Only with Ankara does it fear to mention human rights. And this nonsense about “non-intervention”…Ankara literally sent security forces to attack peaceful protesters in DC
https://twitter.com/washingtonpoint/status/1452642163146334221
The US isn’t afraid to critique human rights in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, China, India, Russia, or any country in the world, only with Turkey does it put out special statements about not critiquing human rights inside Turkey via some “convention”….not with other states
There is not one other country in the world the US is as subservient to as Ankara’s regime, Washington is not afraid to critique abuses or issues anywhere else. It’s bizarre. It’s like western democracies empowered an extremist fascist Ankara and are now afraid of it
Of course this reminds us of the 1930s and appeasement of another country that turned fascist and which western countries feared as it crushed minorities and invaded and ethnically cleansed.
It’s also bizarre that Ankara, alone among the world’s countries, gets this “Vienna convention” tweet, Ankara invaded Syria and intervenes in numerous countries against the principles of Vienna Convention Article 41
Consider the ethnic cleansing of Afrin or murder of Hevrin Khalaf, that was a violation foreign envoys "have a duty not to interfere in the internal affairs of that State”; Ankara’s envoys often incite against foreign states and bash them with hate speech
Attacking peaceful protesters in Washington DC was a violation of the Vienna Convention and the US did nothing at the time because of the bizarre support for Ankara’s abuses theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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