{"id":35434,"date":"2019-02-14T17:54:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T22:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35434"},"modified":"2019-02-14T18:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:01:29","slug":"misleading-the-public-about-international-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35434","title":{"rendered":"Misleading The Public About International Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBC News<\/a> posted an article today about the relationship between President Trump and the nation of Turkey.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

As Trump administration officials presided over the second day of an international conference in Warsaw dominated by calls to ratchet up pressure on Iran, one longtime U.S. ally and NATO member<\/a> was noticeably absent \u2014 Turkey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Snubbing the gathering in Poland, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday attended a rival conference in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, where he planned to meet his Russian and Iranian counterparts<\/a> to work out a final settlement of the war in Syria.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The dueling summits illustrate President Donald Trump’s struggle to forge a united front against Iran, and reflect Turkey’s drift away from Washington as it finds common ground with Moscow and Tehran, experts and former officials said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These three paragraphs are totally misleading and paint a negative picture of President Trump’ foreign policy that is totally inaccurate. Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/b> became President of Turkey in 2014. He had previously served as Prime Minister from 2003 to 2014. As he moves Turkey in the direction of an Islamic State, it is only natural that his friendly relationship with America would deteriorate rapidly.<\/p>\n

On July 28, 2014, The Jerusalem Post<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

Harold Rhode, a senior fellow at the New-York-based Gatestone Institute and a former adviser on Islamic affairs in the office of the American secretary of defense, told The Jerusalem Post<\/em> in an interview on Sunday that the real issue in the ongoing conflict is that Turkey and Qatar are supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas in their goals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdogan has been associated with the Muslim Brotherhood long before he was prime minister,\u201d Rhode said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It should now be clear to all that Erdogan \u201cis now out of the bag,\u201d Rhode said, adding that US President Barack Obama does not speak to the Turkish leader anymore despite previously describing him as one of his closest friends among the world\u2019s leaders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cErdogan is doing whatever he can to help Hamas,\u201d he said, asserting that it will only hurt the Palestinian people in the end.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On January 7, 2019, Clare Lopez posted an article at the Center for Security Policy<\/a> that stated:<\/p>\n

As National Security Advisor John Bolton heads to Turkey today for discussions about President Trump\u2019s announced decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syrian battle spaces, he might question Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about his expressed intent to re-establish the Ottoman Empire and how Erdogan calculates U.S. policy in the region to figure into that ambition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He might cite from Erdogan\u2019s February 2018 assertion that \u201cmodern Turkey is a \u2018continuation\u2019 of the Ottoman Empire<\/a>,\u201d or ask exactly what Erdogan meant when, in November 2018 he declared that \u201cTurkey is bigger than Turkey; just know this. We cannot be trapped inside 780,000 kilometers [Turkey\u2019s total area]<\/a>.\u201d He might perhaps ask also what exactly Erdogan meant by threatening the U.S. with an \u201cOttoman Slap<\/a>,\u201d in reference to American support for Kurdish forces fighting against the Islamic State.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then there was the November 2018 \u201cInternational Islamic Union Congress<\/a>,\u201d held in Istanbul. Headed by Erdogan\u2019s chief military advisor, Adnan Tanriverdi<\/a>, the event\u2019s participants endorsed the aim of \u201cunity of Islam\u201d through establishing the \u201cConfederation of Islamic Countries.\u201d It was not entirely clear how or if such a \u201cConfederation\u201d would differ from a Caliphate or Islamic State.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clearly, U.S. objectives for the region are not the same as Turkey\u2019s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t think President Trump is the problem in our relationship with Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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