Nationalist Youths Attack U.S. Sailors in Turkey -- New York Times
ISTANBUL — Members of a Turkish nationalist youth group assaulted three visiting American sailors in Istanbul on Wednesday, hurling balloons filled with red paint at them, putting white sacks over their heads and calling them murderers.
The Turkish authorities later arrested 12 people in connection with the assault, which the American Embassy in Ankara described as “appalling.”
A video posted online by the group, the Turkish Youth Union, or T.G.B., shows a dozen of its members staging an anti-American protest in the touristy Eminonu neighborhood and attacking the sailors, who were not in uniform, in broad daylight.
The sailors had just disembarked from the guided missile destroyer Ross, docked in Istanbul for a few days. They escaped and returned to the ship, and all shore leave for the crew was canceled.
Turkey, a NATO member, routinely allows such port calls from the United States.
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3 comments:
Needs context,
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_event
I can see Sunni Turkish Youth being upset about the inciedent.
When do they have to "check" their chauvinism?
Two major reasons the Turks have so much problem with the Kurds is (1) they conquered them and (2) they have continued to discriminate them.
Many chauvinistic Turks call the Kurds "Mountain Turks".
Meaning that Kurds really are Turkish but they are too stupid to realize it.
The Kurds have lived there since the times of the "Anabasis" if not before, while the Turks are invaders form north Central Siberia or Central Siberia.
Maybe the U.S. could conquer Canada and call the Canadians "Mountain Americans". We could suppress any Canadian dialect.
Maybe things had been better if the Turks had not been undercover & arming factions.
"Turkey also began covertly arming the ITF as a lever against the Iraqi Kurds"
"The Turkish intelligence services also made use of the Grey Wolves in conflict against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) by offering them amnesty in exchange." - wiki (Grey Wolves)
Maybe Wikipedia can be scrubbed?
There is even stuff about the CIA and Operation Gladio
So if the CIA could use such groups, maybe the FSB could groups like the Turkey Youth Union?
Did it happen? Don't know. Is it possible?
A SU-24 Fencer just buzzed a DDG of the same class.
The Ross and the Cook both have been upgraded with "RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) capability in order to function as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense" - wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Donald_Cook_(DDG-75)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ross_(DDG-71)
"BMD is a wholly defensive mission. But Russia has always insisted on interpreting it as a means of improving the U.S. posture for offensive attack."
http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/04/14/half-mcnamara-russian-attack-jet-buzzes-u-s-navy-destroyer/
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