… that AKP leadership is playing hard to get nationalist MHP voters in the referendum. President Erdoğan is a master tactician when it comes to elections. AKP voters are taken for granted and more MHP voters persuaded, more chance for the “yes” votes in the referendum. After the referendum, Turkey can make peace with Netherlands like she did with Russia and Israel. Well, I cannot imagine what else is aimed at. Making oneself as a minister to be deported is not an easy deed to achieve, not to add not much diplomatic discourse our Minister of Foreign Affairs has…
One term for asshole in Turkish is "ass tulip".
Çavuşoğlu just said of the Dutch PM: "I don't know what kind of tulip you are."— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) March 12, 2017
Speaking of the Türkiyeli diaspora, here are overseas June 2015 election results: pic.twitter.com/bIB27XejMr
— Nick Ashdown (@Nick_Ashdown) March 12, 2017
Apparently there is a representational relation between oranges and Netherland as shown in this protest in Turkey. https://t.co/VJzXo88QQC
— Erkan Saka (@sakaerka) March 12, 2017
Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu explains how he tried to reason with the Dutch (not parody): pic.twitter.com/wVusV56bA1
— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) March 11, 2017
Binali Yıldırım says there will be ‘strong countermeasures’ after minister was prevented from campaigning on Erdoğan referendum in Rotterdam
The Turkish prime minister has threatened the Netherlands with sanctions in retaliation for the expulsion of a government minister from the country as she tried to visit the consulate in Rotterdam.
Turkey and the Netherlands are embroiled in a diplomatic row after the Dutch government barred Turkish ministers from entering the country to campaign for referendum due to take place next month. A private jet carrying Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was denied permission to land in Rotterdam on Saturday while the country’s family minister, Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, was blocked from entering the Turkish embassy in the city and escorted back to the German border later that night.
Secretary Kerry Listens as Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu Addresses Reporters in Washington. U.S. State Department image shared via official Flickr account. Public domain.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who was fired from the White House last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish…
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