Tag: Recep Erdogan

Turkish media paints White House visit as Erdoğan triumph over Trump

The Hill logoTurkish media are seizing on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s comments that President Trump had “no reaction” to his returning the American leader’s notorious letter to him, saying it shows a clear victory over Trump.

A headline in Sabah Daily, a pro-government media outlet, said that international media were reporting that Erdoğan returned the “scandalous” letter to Trump and the American president was “silent.”

The Turkish president was careful not push his criticism of Trump too far during a briefing with reporters following the two leaders’ summit, but he did use his platform to attack his detractors in the U.S. Congress.

View the complete November 14 article by Laura Kelly on The Hill website here.

Turkish President Erdogan showed anti-Kurdish propaganda film during Oval Office meeting — and even some pro-Trump Republicans weren’t happy

AlterNet logoTurkey, once the most liberal democracy in the Islamic world, has taken a much more authoritarian turn under President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — and with President Donald Trump having withdrawn U.S. troops from northeastern Syria, critics of the decision have voiced major concerns over how Erdoğan is treating the United States’ Kurdish allies in that region. Some of those concerns, according to Axios, were voiced on Wednesday, when Erdoğan visited the Oval Office in Washington, D.C. and showed several prominent Republicans an anti-Kurdish propaganda film.

When Erdoğan — according to Axios’ sources —  met with Trump and five GOP senators (including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida) he pulled out his iPad and showed the Republicans a film that depicted Kurds as terrorists. Axios’ Jonathan Swan reports that the Turkish president “apparently thought he could sway these senators by forcing them to watch a clunky propaganda film,” noting that the Oval Office visit came at a time when Erdoğan “is trying to avoid sanctions over the purchase of a Russian missile defense system.” Continue reading “Turkish President Erdogan showed anti-Kurdish propaganda film during Oval Office meeting — and even some pro-Trump Republicans weren’t happy”