Morning Star.png EU Trying To Humiliate Turkey The Morning Star, London, 16 August 2016 Turkey's foreign minister has accused the European Union of trying to humiliate his country and NATO allies of failing to share intelligence. In an interview with Germany's conservative daily Bild published yesterday, Mevlut Cavusoglu said: "The Turkish people are traumatised" by the failed July 15 putsch against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP government. "Rather than helping Turkey, (European nations) are humiliating us," he said. EU nations have condemned Ankara's crackdown on suspected followers of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of being behind the coup, warning that the government's actions could jeopardise the visa-free travel for its citizens that was promised in return for Turkey agreeing to take refugees deported en masse from Europe. Threats and insults Mr Cavusoglu said Turkey has received "only threats, insults and a total blockage" from the EU. The minister issued an apparent warning to fellow members of imperialist alliance NATO, saying Turkey "must also co-operate with other partners on buying and selling weapons systems. "There are NATO partners who, for example, deny us the sale of air-defence systems or the exchange of information," he said. Last week Turkey pledged to work with Russia and Iran to end the Syrian civil war, in which Ankara previously backed the opposite side from Moscow and Tehran. But the minister insisted that Ankara remained "one of NATO's biggest supporters" and said speculation that Turkey could leave the imperialist alliance was being raised "by anti-Turkish circles, not by us." US nuclear-weapon fear But a Washington peace-and-stability think tank the Stimson Centre warned yesterday that some 50 US nuclear weapons stored at Turkey's Incirlik air base were at risk of being captured by "terrorists or other hostile forces" and should be withdrawn. The electricity supply to the base was cut off during the coup and not restored for a week, while the Turkish commander and a dozen other officers were arrested. "Whether the US could have maintained control of the weapons in the event of a protracted civil conflict in Turkey is an unanswerable question," report co-author Laicie Heeley said. Swedish sex story Turkey protested to Sweden and Austria yesterday over "distorted" claims that the government had legalised sex with children. Last month the Turkish Constitutional Court ruled that an adult having consensual sex with a 15-year-old should be punished less harshly than one who abuses a four-year-old. Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom tweeted: "Turkish decision to allow sex with children under 15 must be reversed," while a news ticker at Vienna airport carried a similar headline yesterday. <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-15ac-EU-Trying-to-Humiliate-Us-Over-Po st-Coup-Crack-down#.V7KIr_l9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-15ac-EU-Trying-to-Humiliate-Us-Over-Pos t-Coup-Crack-down#.V7KIr_l9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13967 (20160816) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d1f775%24794c68a0%246be539e0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
