{"id":60057,"date":"2021-10-23T11:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T16:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60057"},"modified":"2021-10-23T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T16:18:54","slug":"erdogan-declares-10-western-ambassadors-persona-non-grata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60057","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan Declares 10 Western Ambassadors &#8216;Persona Non Grata&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/erdogan-declares-10-western-ambassadors-persona-non-grata\">Erdogan Declares 10 Western Ambassadors &#8216;Persona Non Grata&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p>Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he&#8217;s now given the orders to declare\u00a010 Western ambassadors\u00a0<em>persona non grata<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;as soon as possible&#8221; &#8211; however it&#8217;s unclear whether this means they&#8217;ll be forced to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I told my foreign minister to declare these 10 ambassadors as persona non grata as soon as possible,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0Erdogan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/turkeys-erdogan-orders-10-ambassadors-declared-persona-non-grata-2021-10-23\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0in fresh statements. The day prior he had lashed out at the United States and European countries for their joint statement Monday demanding the immediate release of billionaire philanthropist and businessman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/erdogan-threatens-kick-out-10-western-ambassadors-over-jailed-soros-leftover\">Osman Kavala<\/a>, who has been in Turkish custody since 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1451909718113505286&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Ferdogan-declares-10-western-ambassadors-persona-non-grata&amp;sessionId=9e5b98173a2066b362f9a5dde0b2b1b47aa7dfbe&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=f001879%3A1634581029404&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1451909718113505286\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\"><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>persona non grata<\/em>\u00a0designation is against the ambassadors of\u00a0<strong>US, Germany, France, Canada, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden,\u00a0Norway, and New Zealand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Germany&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/turkey-to-declare-10-ambassadors-persona-non-grata\/a-59604866\"><em>Deutsche Welle<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Turkish president\u00a0did not clarify\u00a0whether his order meant that the diplomats \u2014 who he\u00a0<strong>accused of &#8220;indecency&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 would be ordered to leave the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, he added that: &#8220;<strong>They must leave here<\/strong>\u00a0the day they no longer know Turkey.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The prior joint statement the countries had signed lambasted Turkey over\u00a0human rights violations connected with the Kavala case, and further charged Turkey with backsliding in democracy and the legal rights of citizens. On Friday Erdogan lambasted the demand,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-10-21\/erdogan-says-can-t-host-western-envoys-after-businessman-row?srnd=economics-vp\">saying<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;<strong>Those who defend this Soros leftover are trying to get him released<\/strong>. I told our foreign minister that\u00a0<strong>we cannot afford to host them in our country<\/strong>.&#8221; He questioned, &#8220;Why would the 10 ambassadors make such a statement?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said as\u00a0cited in\u00a0<em>Anadolu Agency<\/em>: &#8220;<strong>How dare you teach such a lesson to Turkey?<\/strong>\u00a0Who are you? What do they say? &#8216;Release Kavala.&#8217;\u00a0<strong>Do you leave the bandits, murderers, terrorists in your own countries?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erdogan Declares 10 Western Ambassadors &#8216;Persona Non Grata&#8217; Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he&#8217;s now given the orders to declare\u00a010 Western ambassadors\u00a0persona non grata\u00a0&#8220;as soon as possible&#8221; &#8211; however it&#8217;s unclear whether this means they&#8217;ll be forced to leave the country. &#8220;I told my foreign minister to declare these 10 ambassadors as persona [&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":[281,818,827,4318],"class_list":["post-60057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-europe","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60057","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=60057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}