Monday, July 18, 2016

Ask Kerry to deny Turkeys request to extradite Muhammed Fethullah Gülen

Today I asked Secretary Kerry to deny Turkey’s extradition request for Muhammed Fethullah Gülen on grounds including that Gülen cannot receive a fair atrial in Turkey.  See, e.g., the Times article, Turkey Widens Purge as Crackdown Continues.

The article contains thisastonishing paragraph:

In Brussels on Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry and the European Union’s top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, urged Turkey — a member of NATO and a candidate for membership in the European Union — to show restraint. 
“Obviously, NATO also has a requirement with respect to democracy, and NATO will indeed measure very carefully what is happening,” Mr. Kerry said.
Turkey is no longer a democracy.  Turkish Kurds deserve independence from Erdoğan’s dictatorship, and Syrian Kurds deserve protection from his bombardments.

Send a request to Kerry to deny the extradition here: The Office of Public Engagement.  Please do.

The government crackdown on anyone it dislikes, in current google images, reminds one of Ferguson:









Does thee US really want a Nixonian Trump, mirrored in a Trampish Erdoğan?  I do not!




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