Posted on 05/22/2012 10:41:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Turkey on Tuesday said it respects Pakistan's decision on the Nato supply routes and endorses its demand for an apology from the United States over the killing of its troops at Salala checkpost.
Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan jointly addressing a press conference with Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani after the inking of nine agreements for cooperation in diverse fields said the opening of the Nato supply route was the discretion of Pakistan.
"However, as a member of the Nato, Turkey believes that such issues should be resolved through mutual dialogue," he said...
"We wish to make it clear that Pakistan is the part of solution and not the problem for Afghanistan." Gilani reiterated Pakistan's stance for a "stable, sovereign, prosperous and independent Afghanistan," and added that it desired a political solution that was Afghan-led and Afghan owned. He was also appreciative of the support extended by Turkey's President Abdullah Gul to Pakistan, at the May 20 Nato Summit at Chicago, that was attended by President Asif Ali Zardari...
Asked whether his country would stay in Afghanistan till the Nato's deadline of 2014, the Turkish Prime Minister said his country was committed to return of peace and stability to Afghanistan and would be the last one to withdraw its troops from the war ravaged country.
Turkey has over 1300 troops in Afghanistan and is one of the large contributors amongst the 50 countries that comprise the International Security Assistance Force.
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Erdogan is defending Al-Bashir because in his words, "No Muslim could perpetrate a genocide".
A recent Council of Europe report says that during and after the 1998-99 Kosovo conflict, militia leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) tortured and killed hundreds of Serbs and political rivals in secret Albanian hideouts, removed their organs for sale and dumped their bodies in local rivers. The report added that these people were also heavily involved in drug, sex and illegal immigrant trafficking across Europe.
...claimed that Americans were tossing so many Iraqi bodies into the Euphrates that local mullahs had issued a fatwa ordering residents not to eat the fish. The same paper repeatedly claimed that the U.S. used chemical weapons in Fallujah. And it reported that Israeli soldiers had been deployed alongside U.S. forces in Iraq and that U.S. forces were harvesting the innards of dead Iraqis for sale on the U.S. "organ market."
China has demanded that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan retract his accusation that Beijing practised genocide against ethnic Uighurs.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned European Union leaders that violence from Islamic extremists could escalate if the EU rejects Turkey as a member... Turkey signed the association agreement for EU membership in 1963 and it is expected that a two-day EU summit this week will finally decide to begin formal membership talks, probably in the second half of next year... Taking Turkey's 69 million, mainly Muslim, population into the Union is widely disputed... In Germany, leader of the Christian Social Union Edmund Stoiber told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that his party in government would do what it takes to prevent Turkey from becoming a full member of the EU. There is also opposition in other countries. A majority of Danes would much rather see Ukraine as an EU member than Turkey... Turkey has rejected a request from the European Commission to recognise Cyprus ahead of this week's decision on Turkey's EU application. The Greek Cypriots, for their part, have threatened to veto Turkish EU membership. The Turks claim Greek Cypriots do not deserve recognition after they rejected a United Nations plan for the unification of Cyprus, which Turkish Cypriots supported.
There’s a deep thinker for ya.
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