{"id":18565,"date":"2016-03-07T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18565"},"modified":"2016-03-07T12:35:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T17:35:52","slug":"kick-turkey-out-of-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18565","title":{"rendered":"Kick Turkey Out of NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/03\/kick-turkey-nato.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kick Turkey Out of NATO<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">There\u2019s a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/jens-stoltenberg-suspend-turkey-s-membership-of-nato\">Petition<\/a>\u00a0at Change.org to suspend Turkey\u2019s membership in NATO.<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Why kick Turkey out of NATO?<\/p>\n<p>Because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey just shut down the largest Turkish newspaper using tear gas, water canons and brutality:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/18_iK4fLQlo?controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Q8k6cE_BqyM?controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/report\/freedom-press\/2015\/turkey\">destroyed free speech and freedom of the press<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2012\/jun\/10\/turkey-free-speech-erdogan-crackdown\">imprisons more journalists<\/a>\u00a0than any other country in the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Journalists \u2013 such as Dutch reporter Frederike Geerdink or\u00a0<em>Vice News\u2019<\/em>\u00a0Mohammed Rasool \u2013 are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/index.rsf.org\/#%21\/\">regularly detained on spurious charges<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Anyone who\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2015\/12\/02\/turkish-doctor-faces-two-years-prison-saying-erdogan-looks-like-gollum\/\">criticizes<\/a>\u00a0Turkey\u2019s president\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jan\/21\/former-miss-turkey-arrested-for-criticizing-presid\/\">is<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2016\/01\/turkey-certain-words-and-images-become-sins.html#\">arrested<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter reports that the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/i100.independent.co.uk\/article\/the-country-that-makes-the-most-content-removal-requests-on-twitter--ekBKBAoQhe\">Turkish government makes more content removal requests<\/a>\u00a0than any other in the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>After reporters, local police and Turkish generals caught a weapons shipment from Turkey into Syria, they were all\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/anasayfa_turkish-generals-arrested-for-inspecting-weapons-filled-trucks-bound-for-syria_405655.html\">arrested on \u201ctreason\u201d charges<\/a>\u00a0for exposing the shipment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey\u2019s president says he\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/erdogan-says-he-does-not-respect-will-not-obey-top-court-ruling-on-arrested-journalists.aspx?PageID=238&amp;NID=95784&amp;NewsCatID=339\">doesn\u2019t have to follow the rulings\u00a0<\/a>of Turkey\u2019s top court<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/ISIS-IS-US-Shocking-Behind-ebook\/dp\/B019RXBP7M\">one of the main supporters<\/a>\u00a0of ISIS and Al Nusra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/10\/2-turkish-parliament-members-turkey-provided-chemical-weapons-for-syrian-terrorist-attack.html\">provided the chemical weapons<\/a>\u00a0used in the famous attacks which killed hundreds in Syria. Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh \u2013 who uncovered the Iraq prison torture scandal and the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam\u00a0 \u2013 previously\u00a0<a title=\"says\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2014\/4\/7\/sy_hersh_reveals_potential_turkish_role\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that high-level American sources tell him that the\u00a0<a title=\"Turkish government\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n08\/seymour-m-hersh\/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Turkish government<\/em><\/a>\u00a0carried out the chemical weapons attacks blamed on the Syrian government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kick Turkey Out of NATO There\u2019s a\u00a0Petition\u00a0at Change.org to suspend Turkey\u2019s membership in NATO. Why kick Turkey out of NATO? Because: Turkey just shut down the largest Turkish newspaper using tear gas, water canons and brutality: Turkey has\u00a0destroyed free speech and freedom of the press Turkey\u00a0imprisons more journalists\u00a0than any other country in the world Journalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3932,12793,2239,1239,446,447,553,1494,938,5340,776,818,5510,10369],"class_list":["post-18565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-nusra","tag-change-org","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-nato","tag-press","tag-press-freedom","tag-seymour-hersh","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-washingtons-blog","tag-zaman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18566,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565\/revisions\/18566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}