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Violence Erupts In Turkey After Prominent Lawyer Is Assassinated On Live TV

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A day after Turkey arrested two journalists for their report exposing Erdogan's weapons deliveries to "extremist groups" in Syria, confirming that no dissent to the president's foreign policy would be allowed, today a new riot has erupted in Istanbul following the dramatic murder in broad daylight of Tahir Elci, the president of the Turkish bar association in southeastern Diyarbakir province, who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while giving a public speech.

A campaigner for Kurdish rights, Elci had been criticized in Turkey for saying the banned Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) was not a terrorist organization, as the government
describes it. He had, however, denounced PKK violence. He was facing trial over his comments, which had infuriated state prosecutors. A Turkish prosecutor last month demanded up to seven and a half years of prison tme for Elci on the grounds of "making propaganda of a terror organization" after remarks he made supporting the PKK.

Just before being gunned down, Elci called for peace and the silencing of all guns.

Moments later TV footage showed a shoot out breaking out and plain clothes police repeatedly shooting at a figure running past them towards Elci.  He was then seen lying on the ground with blood apparently streaming from his head. He was later pronounced dead from gunshot to the head. A policeman was also killed in the gunfight.

 

 

The killing which was captured on tape, took place while Tahir Elci was making a statement to the media.

"The moment the statement ended, the crowd was sprayed with bullets,” Reuters cited Omer Tastan, a local official from the pro-Kurdish HDP party, as saying. "A single bullet struck Elci in the head," he said, adding that 11 people had also been injured in the incident.

In other words, a hit meant to take out the pro-Kurdish lawyer, staged as an attack by the very people he was defending.

According to the state Anadolu news agency, it was Kurdish insurgents that opened fire, killing Elci, as well as a police officer, and injuring three other people, among them correspondents of the leading Turkish media organizations – the Anatolia and Dogan news agencies

That, however,  appears to be just more state propaganda, because as journalists were quick to point out, Elci not only was a pro-Kurd activist but defended the "Terrorist" PKK, which is Erdogan's political nemesis.

Then Erdogan himself chimed in, saying "I have just learnt that Bar Association President Mr. Tahir Elçi died and a policeman was martyred," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a meeting in the northwestern province of Bal?kesir. “This incident shows how Turkey is right in its determined stance in fighting terrorism." The irony is that according to the official narrative, Elci was somehow assassinated by the same people whom he was defending, which, needless to say, makes very little sense.

According to Today Szaman, in a video clip of the incident taken by the Dogan News Agency, men hiding behind the minaret of a nearby mosque started firing at Elci and people standing with him. "A person ran towards Tahir Elci, fired with one hand and then started to run away. Then fighting started," Dogan news agency reporter Felat Bozarslan said.

The US Embassy expressed shock over Elci's death, calling him a "courageous defender of human rights. Our condolences go to his family, that of the policeman killed and to all of Turkey. A terrible loss," the embassy said on Twitter.

Two policemen and a reporter of the state-run Anadolu news agency were injured in the gunfire, along with an unknown number of civilians, Dogan news agency said. One of the policeman was in critical condition, it said.

Turkey's People's Democratic Party (HDP) condemned Elci's killing which it described as an "planned assassination" and called a protest in Istanbul in a written statement.

"In the place left by Tahir Elci, thousands more Tahir Elcis will carry on the work in the struggle for law and justice," it said. Noting that Elçi had been targeted by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and its media, the statement called on political parties, civil society and professional groups to "raise their voices" in protest. Metin Feyzioglu, head of the Turkish Bar Association (TBB), said he and members of the executive board of the TBB will be heading to Diyarbakir, inviting all executives of local bar associations across Turkey to join.

"This bullet has been fired at not only our brother but at Turkey as a whole. We need to show that our unity will not be undermined and this heinous attack will not succeed," said Feyzioglu.

And so the tension across Turkey rises even more, only this time it has nothing to do with the country's ruinous foreign politics and everything to do with Erdogan's relentless attempt to crackdown on all domestic political adversaries.

Meanwhile, as summoned, at least 2000 people gathered in central Istanbul in Turkey late on Ssaturday, to protest the killing of Elci According to RT, one of the few media organizations covering today's political violence in Turkey, police used water cannon and tear gas, ordering protesters to disperse, RT's William Whiteman reported from the scene. He himself and an RT cameraman were also teargased during the clashes, the reporter added.

Protesters grew more and more angry with the police who were "being incredibly heavy-handed," Whiteman reported, adding that people were chanting slogans accusing President Erdogan of being a "thief" and a "killer."

Helicopters have been heard flying low over the area, and the "violent" protests are continuing into the night.

 

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Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:32 | 6849734 Son of Loki
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Sad to see it happen. It was a beautiful country when it was secular ... very properous and happy too.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:24 | 6849899 GMadScientist
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In some sense, a continuous victim of being at the cross-roads, from when they were the end of the silk road, to being the most popular airspace overwhich superpowers want to fly.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:33 | 6849738 Francis Marx
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Assad is a wicked leader? what did you say obozo?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:46 | 6849978 James TraffiCan't
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All is Calm...Obozo and the rest of his Elitist buds and gals are showing them by attending the Climate Change Summit in Paris. As he said, "That'll show them." Referring to the bad guys. BTW...who are the bads guys? So hard to tell nowadays.

Damm it...Scotty, Lay that bong down and beam me up! 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:33 | 6849739 dogfish
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I hope the Sultan Erdogshit got an ok from Oblowme before ordering this assassination.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:26 | 6849907 GMadScientist
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The best false flags are the ones for which the patsy has an obvious motive.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:25 | 6850534 Fractal Parasite
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Well, the Erdogan regime has scored so many own goals lately, it's hard not to imagine that he is being purposefully chucked under the bus.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:35 | 6849750 margincall575
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this should be good for another 200 points on the Dow

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:55 | 6849756 Kprime
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A top lawyer, president of the bar association, a few media and a policeman all killed in one day.  Damn it's a beautiful day today.  Are people finally getting their priorities right?  Party on Dudes, I am loving it.  I will drink a toast today for the rebellion.

This is the day the Lord has made, I shall rejoice and be glad in it.

 

On a side note:  Don't all foreign politicians/lawyers/corporate biz owners and such know that the U.S. doesn't mind sacrificing a few of you in order to get their WW3 off the ground?  Ya'll are just minor collateral damage like the occasional trampled security worker in wal-mart on black friday.

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:00 | 6849825 Lord Ariok
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Damn you beat me to the comment. I busted up laughing seeing your comment. kudos ~Lord A

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:12 | 6849762 rwe2late
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A familiar road travelled often.

 

Erdogan strives to retain power by a crackdown on domestic dissent

coupled with expansionist war abroad.

 

Major US news media champion for Turk-run "safe zone" inside Syria.

Turk troops as well as operatives have already invaded Syria.

Turk media has proclaimed:

"Aleppo to become the 82nd province of Turkey"

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/09/18775960.php

 

US about to back escalated Turk invasion/annexation of Northern Syria??

http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-turkey-edging-up-to-syrian-border-pretex...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:59 | 6850278 GreatUncle
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That will go down well just like the US/GB when it annexed Palestine for Israel.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:40 | 6849767 Whiskey Badger
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Gladio B is alive and well...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:05 | 6849833 Escapedgoat
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You got ahead there by a whisker +1000

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:46 | 6849773 To Hell In A Ha...
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Turkey invented the DEEP STATE. Everything is fucked and our generation will be officially be viewed as fucking USELESS, as it was on our watch that tyranny and plutocracy made a come back. How many good men and women around the world have died standing up to political bullying and the plebs have stood by and did nothing?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:21 | 6851076 FixItAgainTony
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All of them.  It is the purpose of the lumpen to be disinterested by outcomes.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:43 | 6849777 Bam_Man
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And the Gold price will be smacked another $10-$15 lower first thing Monday morning.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:49 | 6849796 katchum
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Huh? Here in Belgium this is not even news...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:53 | 6849811 Infinite QE
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The Turkish people need to side with Vlad and purge this zionist govt.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:57 | 6849820 Jim Leyritz
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Nice Vlad.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:23 | 6850348 silverer
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The country of Turkey is destined to turn into a shit hole, not because of Vladimir Putin, but because the population tolerates corrupt leaders, which will always bring a country to ruin.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:04 | 6849832 jubber
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Erdogan and his boy just entered history

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:07 | 6849840 Joebloinvestor
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Like I said, I didn't know Turkey was a Latin American country.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:10 | 6849846 Cindy6
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While Erdogan is indeed a nasty piece of work, it does seem like someone IS trying to topple him and destablize Turkey. As a vassal, he doesn't quite know his place and had actually contemplate joining the East as shown by Blue Stream and negotiations to purchase Chinese Red Flag missile system. 

Quite possilbly being encoraged to shoot down the Russian fighter and led to believe NATO would back him up. Once relationship with Russia is being torn and completely isolated in teh world by having his relationship with ISIS exposed, Turkey is ready for destablisation and eventual carved-up. It's no wonder the western press has only good things to say about the Kurds. 

Reminds me of Iraq/Kuwait. 

If he has any brain cell left, he should immediately patch up relationship with Russia and China. Else he's toast and Eurasia having another failed state. 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:22 | 6850928 Optimusprime
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Thanks--welll worth considering.  Assuming he does not do this: I wonder if Iran, Syria and Russian can make a sweet enough offer to the Kurds to wean them away from the Anglo-Zionists at the expense of the Turks.  Sounds interesting.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:15 | 6851220 Parrotile
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Well, it seems that Erdogan may NOT have any functioning brain cells left - russia-turkey-war-of-words-escalates.

So we have:-

  1. Shootdown of Russian aircraft in Syrian airspace;

  2. “Pretence” that the aircraft “violated” Turkish airspace for a few seconds (this is the same Turkey that regards 2000 violations of Greek airspace to be perfectly OK;

  3.  Support of oil smuggling – let’s be honest, oil THEFT, by a known terrorist group (and we know who is a direct beneficiary from this trade – “Keep it in the Family”.)

This being an Aussie MSM publication, notice that none of the above points have been mentioned even in passing. Got to keep feeding the masses “Government Approved” information, lest that might have ideas of their own . . . .

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:42 | 6849850 nnnnnn
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no humans took any kind of harm in the video

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:13 | 6849853 Pumpkin
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A lawyer?  Pity.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:13 | 6849856 FreeNewEnergy
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This is so fucked. It's every day now. WWIII has already begun, just in case anybody had any doubts.

Makes me want to puke, but I'll wait because, as much as I hate to admit it, it's going to get much worse before we can even think of making it better.

Happy Fucking Holidays, indeed.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:02 | 6850283 Linoleum Blownapart
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In my mind, there's a difference between an ongoing feud with tension and jabs, vs. an all-out fist fight to the death.

Events so far have been isolated enough that diplomats can still sit around the table and talk. Personally, I'm not calling WW3 until U.S. and Russia have severed diplomatic relations, which they haven't at all:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/g20-barack-obama-and-vladim...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:45 | 6850811 Jethro
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So instead of one Archduke Ferdinand event, we'll get weekly, or even b-weekly events until somebody just throws their hat in the ring I guess.

If I were a betting man, I'd lay some money on the Russians equipping the Kurds.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 22:14 | 6851351 arby63
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I don't know about the Russian/Kurdish thing but I think you're correct about someone just saying fuck it and start a real shootin war.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:20 | 6849866 bankonzhongguo
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The only regional power counter to Iran on the ground is Turkey, so now you will see that place put through the wringer as well.

Population is around 75 million, so its heavy density, old culture, access to NATO and western security interests and all the other trappings compel Turkey to fill the vacuum to be created in Syria.

That's a tall order to fill, but one easily paid for using the same model in Saudi and Egypt over the decades.

Good time to be in the black markets in Turkey witness all the refugees in the pipeline to Berlin and Washington.

Not sure of what kind of Alevi-Sufi capacity Quds has in the east, but given how the Sons of Noah operate in Chechnya who knows what the future holds.

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:18 | 6849870 jubber
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#MSM actually seriously challenged here, do they admit #putin was right about #Erdogan and his #ISIS son or support the US #Obama bollox

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:19 | 6849876 One And Only
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Can someone ELI5 what's going on here?

It's getting hard for me to discern conspiracies theories, facts, and commonsense.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:36 | 6849938 bankonzhongguo
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It's a post ideology world.

It's simply a matter using using position and technology to game resources - people, places and things.

The Democrats are the Chinese Communist Party are Wall Street are Putin's central block are the City of London are Chicago politics are Black Lives Matter is Drudge on Zombie Apocalypse with Climate Change and Global Warming and Aztec Priests predicting eclipses and Peak Oil with the US shale collapse and Black Friday massacres.

Static.

While videos, blogs and propaganda edge each other for the perception of the hour, the real meat exists in the predictive nature of emerging data systems.

Knowing what people are thinking and talking about and searching for in a few (one?) central locations allows the clairvoyant to understand tending issues and provide convenient "solutions" to the small interests that matter in the near term.

The old prisms to view the geopolitical map are broken and now its just interests battling for crumbs on the table.

Consider ALL OF THIS to be trivia in your daily life.

What matters is your community, your family and what personal power and trust you can deploy locally to keep your head above water.

With all that said I will now take a few hits of DMT on acid.

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:41 | 6850387 messystateofaffairs
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Warm war fog.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:21 | 6849889 Ward no. 6
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why can't the world  have one calm day?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:30 | 6849921 Gief Gold Plox
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The world's doing just fine, it's the people who are fucked.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:00 | 6850645 css1971
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We're killing off species at a faster rate than the last mass exctinction event.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:31 | 6849925 MayIMommaDogFac...
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Soma.  Take your Soma.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:35 | 6850174 Unix
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why? because satan rules it!

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 02:01 | 6851872 SixIsNinE
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we haven't yet had our day to do as Bankzhongo above mentioned -

his nutrient recommendation - many have more rewarding Experience by utilizing the di-methyl-tryptamine during a peak/plateau of the lysergic journey

That's what this is all about, and why the Turned On Folk in 1969 thought they could  have a peaceful world  ... a pause for remembering ... forgiving and turning away from the NOT LOVE abyss

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:31 | 6849923 Son of Loki
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Not a peep yet on MSM.

 

That's odd.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:42 | 6849956 Guitarbill
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Give them time, this one is going to be hard to spin. Obummers team is working on it as we speak.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:02 | 6850045 Infinite QE
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'cause MSM is owned by the same khazarian klan who ordered the hit.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:38 | 6849945 Paracelsus
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Looks much like the Benigno Aquino "hit" in the Phillipines.

Standard script: Man gets whacked,and then his whacker gets whacked.

(And NO I did not mean his Tallywhacker!) This is total Oswald/Jack Ruby....

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:17 | 6850105 Freddie
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Jack Ruby aka Jacob Leon Rubenstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby

Jack Ruby was born Jacob Leon Rubenstein[6] to Joseph Rubenstein (1871–1958) and Fannie Turek Rutkowski (or Rokowsky), both Polish-born, Orthodox Jews, in Chicago, on March 25, 1911.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:45 | 6849972 atthelake
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www.kingworldnews.com has some good tapes, including Paul Craig Roberts on Russia and Turkey.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:48 | 6850998 SgtShaftoe
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Agreed, I just got done listening to the PCR piece about an hour ago.  It was very good analysis. 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:55 | 6850011 Reichstag Fire Dept.
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Who gives a shit what the US Embassy says?! :D

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:35 | 6850173 Unix
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comming from a commie brit i find that quite amusing, stick it up your chuffer bitch.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:03 | 6850048 loveyajimbo
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Coming soon to the USA... thanks, you liberal swine!

 

It is WAY past bedtime for O'Bonzo.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:34 | 6850169 Unix
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aint that the truth jimbo...they will rue the day the sleeping giant finally awakens.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:54 | 6850433 messystateofaffairs
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Comatose, possibly dead.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:59 | 6850452 Unix
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i have to say i agree, this waiting game is a bitch. the culling will be monumental

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:56 | 6851295 jomama
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you're just some soft redneck fat fuck watching nontstop foozball after eating butterball leftovers three days in a row.

don't go getting delusions of granduer, now.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 04:58 | 6852021 Tall Tom
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It is projected that over 100 million Americans will die as a direct result of the oncoming economic collapse.

 

It will happen.

 

There is not one damned thing that you can do to stop it.

 

It has been planned out by your loving Government.

 

They thank you for shopping this weekend as they need your financial and material support in order to realize their goals..

 

Hear this...as it happens to you

 

Promentory--Last of the Mohicans.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlikOMRKxmc&index=6&list=PLTp1_PijDm8q00...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:10 | 6850076 Ms No
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People will start disappearing in mass and they will find them 15 years down the road in mass graves.  This is a pattern which is constant throughout history any time there is a military dicatorship or tyranny of whatever variety... and yes they will likely be tortured.  This is right out of the CIAs South America playbook.  Same MO every time with only slight variations. 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:23 | 6851242 Parrotile
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Are you so sure there will be any of us left to find these mass graves in one year's time, let alone 15??

Right now the future is so bright we'll all need gamma-RayBans . . . . . . . .

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:16 | 6850101 Bill of Rights
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Some folks get shot...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:22 | 6850124 gadzooks
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They should reinstate Duels, it would definitly seperate the Back shooting cowards from the rest.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:01 | 6850462 rejected
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Saddam offered a duel with Bush to settle their differences,,, Bush laughed it off. 

Proved your point though,,, a back shooting coward he is.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:30 | 6850153 Unix
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what moderate muslims? that is not the islam the libbys are protecting...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:33 | 6850163 Neochrome
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Where is Nooland to bring cookies to protesters? Where is McCain marching with Kurds? 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 02:03 | 6851874 USSLiberty
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I hear they are too busy blowing Bibi.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

THE NEO-CONS ARE JUST CONS AMERICA!

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:49 | 6850191 Moccasin
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Things are moving quickly, what's next is what's important. Each criminal act inside a NATO country is used by NATO to its advantage in the escalation of war in Syria. With emphasis on Turkey where its most recent criminal activities appear premeditated. NATO is rushing to war in Syria after the recent criminal act in Paris. The arrival of the Russians in Syria seems to have awoken NATO. NATO has started its response to Russia and will penalize it for the support for the Assad government. The criminal act in Turkey, the assassination of a "Prominent Kurdish Lawyer" is just another move that will be used to justify more war. The slippery slope of war is getting steep. I will expect Turkish ground troops to arrive in Syria soon to create a 'buffer zone' and that slice of dirt will be the ground where the Turks will put the Kurds backs to the wall again. What's next is what is important.  War Pigs!

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:47 | 6851090 flapdoodle
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I suspect the problem for Turkey invading Syria is that Putin told Erdogan that anything that crosses into Syrian territory near Latakia will have the shit bombed out of it.

The US and NATO is trying desperatly to put in ground troops (hence the Paris false flag to try to get the French (NATO) in, but I still think Turkey (also NATO) is reluctant to do this openly), and they may succeed in getting troops into Eastern Syria, but Putin, with SAA, Quds, and Hezbullah, has the advantage in Western Syria and will make a move there very difficult for NATO. If Western Syria was a crucial part of the Zionazi gameplan, they better come up with something else quick. Putin has reached the high ground first.

The fact that Turkey has grounded their flights into Syria is telling. They don't know what the fuck to do.

Its quite possible that Putin maneuvered the Turks into downing the Su-24. or at least set up the environment propitious to its occuring - unfortunately for Turkey.

Putin really knows his judo and used his opponents own move against him. The S-400 timing was just right, and the downing gave Russians the perfect excuse to smash the hell out of the Turkey/Syria border.

Whatever happened to Turkey's vaunted 5mi exclusion zone at the border??? Its gone, baby, gone...

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 09:05 | 6852258 Johnny Horscaulk
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Good stuff.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:48 | 6850227 man of Wool
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Don't look like an ISIS job. They do suicide bombings. Must of been those darn Turks.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:55 | 6850260 GreatUncle
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Think most people know what Erdogan is about ...

Cynically the US pipes up condemming the killing but support Erdogan. US foreign policy is a fucking shambles ain't that the truth. So once again Turkey shows it should never be allowed to join the EU because it does not support human rights.

2 pillars of the EU are already crumbling, the euro and the schengen agreement, then allowing Turkey into the EU club you just dismantled a 3rd pillar and the EHCR.

So which supporting pillar of the EU crumbles next then ? Or alternatively you might want to consider the Lisbon Treaty a worthless piece of paper.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:08 | 6850306 debtor of last ...
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So the gas pipeline from Quatar stops at the Syrian-Turkish border. For now.

Dutch Geert Wilders (our Marine le Pen) called Erdogan a madman, about 3 years back. But he's raciss of course....

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 09:10 | 6852263 Johnny Horscaulk
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Vichy Washington is going to help Qatari gas compete with Israeli's Leviathan find, is it?

Dude... No one lays pipe in chaos.

Stopping the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipe was more important than even weakening russia through allowing the competition) and ensuring Israel's permanent annexation of Golani oil and legally non-Israeli Leviathan gas are also a major goal.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:18 | 6850333 green dragon
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We know that  Turknam commander Alparslan Celik, deputy commander of a Syrian Turkmen brigade turned out to be the son of a mayor of a Keban municipality in Turkey’s Elazig province. He is a member of the Grey Wolves.

We know that use of the BGM-71 TOW missiles – which cost $50,000 a piece – is up over 850% in October with the American-made weapons responsible for the destruction of scores of Syrian army tanks. These are being passed through Turkey.

We know that Turkey has focused their bombing efforts on Kurdish sites.

We know that so called nice Terrorists supported by Turkey seized Kurds from buses travelling from the town of Afrin to the city of Aleppo.

We know that Erdogan's government is planned to place reporters who exposed weapons in Aid shipments from Turkey in jail.

We know much but do nothing!

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:40 | 6850386 I-am-not-one-of-them
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they won't denounce their own foreign policy, they want that policy to succeed

you seem to think criminals should have a concience or morals

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:56 | 6851177 Crocodile
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If morality has no fixed standard and for most there is no fixed rule, then how can anyone question anyone's else's without being a hypocrite? They can't; they can only impose their emotional bias and their own ideas of morality and pass it off as rational and logical.

 

The only way we can have a fixed moral compass is if our Creator is moral and has given them to mankind; He has but we figured we know better than He does and have rejected and compromised the divine standard; so the result is moral relativism and therefore no one can say with authority what is right or wrong, which s why we have the wholesale slaughter of babies, redefining what is natural in marriage and therefore destroying the traditional family, the back-bone of all healthy societies....all gone and we all suffer for it.  We have not seen anything yet, for we are at the beginning of pain and sorrows.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 05:06 | 6852036 Tall Tom
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That sums up the tragedy at hand.

 

We have rejected that Moral Compass and know niot how to navigate out of the tempest at hand.

 

As a result we are doomed.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 07:51 | 6852179 css1971
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On reading the bible objectively, I came to the conclusion that the god depicted there was basically an incarnation of evil. i.e. Satan.

The bible is his Big Lie.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 23:11 | 6851482 john milton
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yeah, seems like you know something but do nothing but

Putin does.. help them..

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:21 | 6850343 smacker
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Westerners should boycott all travel and tourism to Turkey.

Too much civil unrest, cold blooded street assassinations, riots, police violence etc.

"Turkey has become a terrorist country and is unsafe"

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 04:16 | 6851986 bunnyswanson
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No more Turkish Delight!

Sleep with one eye open, Thieves in the Night :X

Metallica!  In Moscow, Russia (Putin at front stage, watch for him at 1:25 Enter Sandman (in uniform amidst a sea of happy Russians)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QP-SIW6iKY

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 08:25 | 6852207 smacker
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Amazing to see Putin like that.

I'd forgotten about Metallica 'cos I got into "Hawkwind"which suited the drugs better ;-)

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:22 | 6850346 blue51
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Oh boy. The impulsive down voter is drinking early today.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:33 | 6850368 Dark Daze
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Why are the Turks in NATO? They don't deserve to be. They don't share our values, our traditions, our religion or our style of government. They are nothing more than evil, back stabbing, slimey bags of Sunni shit, and always have been. And now that Erdogan is becoming a dictator things are only going to get worse. I would not support my government sending one soldier, one plane or one ship to defend those animals. Let the Russians have at them I say.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:41 | 6850388 Omen IV
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"They don't share our values"

 

maybe not your values but certainly Washington's values

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:56 | 6850444 rejected
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Best statement I've heard today!

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:58 | 6850447 Unix
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thumbs up to both of you!

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:55 | 6850437 ross81
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the bigger question is why is there even a NATO at all? The "big bad" Soviet Union & Warsaw Pact are long gone. Truth is NATO now is the Atlanticists + some puppet regimes in eastern Europe/Turkey. They want the entire Middle East and wont tolerate a Russian or BRICS influence there at all. Good to see though that the Shiite Bloc are tired of all this fucking chaos & mayhem and are joining the Russian side.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:55 | 6850624 Joe Plane
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The Warsaw pact was created after NATO and as a counter act.

Don't know how many people know this but in 1954 the USSR, Belorussia and Ukraine (the latter two being seperate members of the UN) applied for membership in NATO. And were rejected.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 01:47 | 6851855 USSLiberty
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You must study Zionism to understand that question.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:44 | 6850466 nnnnnn
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"our religion"

 

now we do  

thanks to jew trash for killing the unborn children with democracy and capitalism and open the borders

 

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:37 | 6850783 NordikAvenger
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Do you really mean "let the Russians genocide them" instead?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:42 | 6850799 Jethro
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Turkey used to be at the USSR's porch step.  That's why they were important.  No other reason whatsoever.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 09:00 | 6852250 azusgm
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"Why are the Turks in NATO?"

Location, location, location.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:51 | 6850423 messystateofaffairs
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Its ironic but Russia is the only hope for Turkey's salvation. That nation has been marked for zionist destruction and Erdogan is out of his depth.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:05 | 6850878 napper
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Not a bad thing if zionists destroyed Turkey, or Saudi Arabia for that matter.

 

Let the mafias fight among themselves.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:19 | 6851072 farflungstar
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the Zionists should be destroyed themselves - they've done enough damage already while pretending they haven't.

It's always someone else - Milosevic, Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad

but never them

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:59 | 6850456 nnnnnn
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"Violence Erupts In Turkey"

thats not violence thats an normal day in turkeystan

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:00 | 6850461 debtor of last ...
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Turkey is just another Turnkey project. They killed Twitter a while back when it didn't serve their purposes. Countries killing the free word, or calling their healthcare system "Obamacare" deserve to die.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 04:37 | 6852007 orelius
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I think the word you're looking for is "Turdkey".

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:28 | 6850545 robertocarlos
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It looked like the guys in front of the car shot the lawyer dead.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:06 | 6850882 moratar
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I expected Russia to be tougher, while they got scared of some small Turkey.

I guess i though Russia is not just a comedy but real superpower i was wrong.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:29 | 6850949 insanelysane
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Putin's playing chess whilst the EuroUS alliance is playing checkers.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:45 | 6851141 Crocodile
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It is obvious the west is trying to stretch Russia via Ukraine and Syria and now Turkey; the further you stretch an any, the more difficult it is to focus on the bigger picture.  China better step up to the Russian plate and soon if anyone expects to reign in the NATO terrorists.

 

God has infinite knowledge; if we compared man's knowledge to God's (Jesus); man's knowledge would be the equivalent of 1 grain of sand in the Sahara desert with the rest representing God's and that would still be an insult to God.  People better be reconciled to Christ while they can, for He will not "toy around" with the unrepentant sinner.  God gives us so many wonderful blessings and we cannot even say thank you.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:44 | 6851276 jomama
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It's not every day that a crocodile jumps the shark.

 

Spare us the fairy tales, OK?

We've got enough bullshit to wade through on a daily basis already.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:24 | 6850934 PoasterToaster
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Kurdistan will make a stabilizing counterbalance to the great nuclear power, Israel.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:23 | 6851081 farflungstar
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Kurdistan is being groomed to be israel's latest manufactured ally in the region - they've been stroking the Kurds for quite some time.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article189385.html

I wonder just how willing Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey (nations with significant Kurdish pops.) are going to be to cede territory to what will be an israeli ally - a little? not too much? not at all?

Eventually they may have no choice.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:27 | 6850941 insanelysane
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Watching MSNBC recently and Howard Dean flipped when someone suggested Turkey should be kicked out of NATO.  It's all you need to know about the US political machine.  They only care about something if it isn't going to cost them money.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:16 | 6851066 chisler
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Putin is looking better and better every day for solving issues. Roast turkey and goat sounds good to me.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:36 | 6851117 Crocodile
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I have have been saying and will continue to; we haven't seen anything yet.  Japan is moving troops near the Chinese man-made islands.  Germany may now send 1200 troops and join the air battle over Syria, which at this point can only have sand mounds to bomb.  2014 was boring, 2015 got interesting and 2016 is going to be a roller-coaster, but 2017 is going to be the year that the world finally wakes up to the nightmare the globalist have created & the people have supported either directly or indirectly as the love of most will grow so dim that hatred toward each other will be the "new norm" and the internal restraints of the conscience will be released to manifest the true nature of mankind.

 

A new TV series has been released and the title is : "The World Gone Wild".

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:01 | 6851197 Joebloinvestor
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Anyone remember the movie,"Z"?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:04 | 6851201 Jack Oliver
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Vlad is on a Turkey hunt and the Turkey is SHITTING BRICS !

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:58 | 6851308 24millionsharec...
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i say we lay off everyone in the middle east.....  until we find out the truth.   they are all lying.

 

build the keystone pipeline   and  and

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 22:07 | 6851338 arby63
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Perhaps my eyes deceived me but doesn't it appear likely that he was shot by the two plain clothes police officers? That was weird. Hard to say where the original gunfire originated.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 09:11 | 6852265 azusgm
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Still don't understand the strategy of the police and photogs taking up positions with each other unless that happened to be the best vantage point. All the same, I'd think the police would move unless they did not expect to be involved in any action.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 22:20 | 6851363 European American
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Wonder if Erdogan farmed this out to Bill and Hillary's personal hitmen?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 22:26 | 6851381 nah
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Seems like everything in the Middle East is going tribal, sectarian, and vigilante
.
bad day for established government and power for the people
.
in a general sense

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 09:19 | 6852275 azusgm
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Mark 13:8

for nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles; beginnings of sorrows [are] these.

The word that is translated as "nation" can also mean "ethnic grouping", i.e. expect to see tribalism.

This was prophesied 2000 years ago and here we are.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 22:46 | 6851409 fel.temp.reparatio
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Elci had previously received threats (Oct. interview with Elci)

The perps apparently arrived in a taxi and let loose (surveillance footage)

An extended view of the incident in the lane showing Elci alive moments before (grey suit right of screen at 0:11)

How the guy in black manages to run through the gauntlet (@0:18), shoots Elci and then disappears is beyond me.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 22:44 | 6851426 BlueViolet
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Israel WARNS Erdogan >> http://bit.ly/1SpGAhB

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 04:58 | 6852031 bunnyswanson
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N Korea threatens to nuke Turkey >> http://iranfrontpage.com/headlines/id/5687/

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 23:01 | 6851460 john milton
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http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/what-happened-when-a-journalist-as...

this motherfucker will go down with all of his money.. political power can and is more intoxicating than all the money you can get..

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 23:10 | 6851481 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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Intersted in Turkey/Kurd issues etc.?

Read this.

https://advokatdyavola.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/only-power-rules/

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 23:17 | 6851495 john milton
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#italianstrikeoverkebab

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 23:28 | 6851525 john milton
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Pizza Berlusconi is Kotipizza's name for a pizza of smoked reindeer, with tomato, cheese, chanterelle and red onion.[6]

It was named "Pizza Berlusconi" in summer 2008 after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi had caused a minor diplomatic incident in 2005, when he said that he had had to "endure" Finnish cuisine,[7] and joked disparagingly about Finns eating "marinated reindeer". Although marinated reindeer is a common dish in Lapland, in the rest of Finland the meat is traditionally stewed or dried.[8]

With Pizza Berlusconi, Kotipizza won the America's Plate International pizza contest in New York in March 2008, beating the Italian-Americans, who came in second place, and the Australians in third.[

 

so you tell me what Erdogans Kebab is made for..

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 23:41 | 6851565 john milton
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chicken legs... what else

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 23:30 | 6851530 ZombieHuntclub
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The Turks will do nothing. The U.S. government will do even less. 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 03:56 | 6851966 bunnyswanson
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There is a storm coming to Turkey and there is nothing they can do about it.  When it happens, this is what they'll say:  Hey man, Nice Shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E Filter

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 08:04 | 6852186 smacker
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Do people actually listen to that?

 

"I'll stick to stuff like this"

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 23:35 | 6851551 OzFan
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Shooting journalists who expose the truth is so 1980s.....didnt his USSA masters tell him rigging bombs to Mercedes cars - aka Michael Hastings - is where it at.

BTW, can someone plz explain the difference between Erdogen and Saddam Hussien....don't see much of a difference there except that Erdogen has a much nicer palace - $750 million price  tag - and he loves a goid Sarin gas attack.

Mofo Erdo for the mofo win!

Btw, that Russian jet attack was Mofo Erdo's jump-the-shark moment...fck me, talk about a dumbass move

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 23:46 | 6851586 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Assassinating prominent lawyers on live television is a great idea, Turkey. I think you have a hit show on your hands.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 08:59 | 6852245 Monetas
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Johnny Cochran .... Gloria Allred .... wait just a minute .... live TV .... doesn't that mean you have to actually see the shooting .... not just the after math ?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 01:42 | 6851845 USSLiberty
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FSB working their magic. Erdogan's criminal regime will be short-lived. I give them a few days at most.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 03:35 | 6851952 Panic Mode
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Bunch of shitty turds rejects stirring up unrest for WW3.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 03:57 | 6851970 orelius
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Sun, 11/29/2015 - 05:48 | 6852074 are we there yet
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Vince Foster showed more skill. They claimed he shot himself.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 08:51 | 6852239 Monetas
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Went to a Jihad .... and Turkey broke out ?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 11:27 | 6852456 PrimalScream
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NOT surprised that Erdogan has a full scale weapons delivery business going to ISIS.  Secret supply lines run in both directions.  Erdogan has become the King Rat of the Middle East.

What's surprising ... is the huge scope of the operation.  Please dont tell us that Western Governments were unaware of what was going on.

This whole Erdogan Black Market Oil Company must have been a real boost for the Toyota dealers in Turkey.  You could probably unravel the whole thing by following the Toyota supply chain to Turkey, and then to ISIS.  What good is ISIS without 4-wheel drive ... how will they ever steal all that oil from Mosul ???

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:13 | 6853285 lcs
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It looked just as plausible to me that Tahir was killed by his own bodyguards in that video.  He clearly was still alive when they began shooting in his direction as the other guy ran past. 

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