Scoop: Erdogan upends Oval meeting to play anti-Kurd film on iPad
Source: Axios
An Oval Office meeting yesterday with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took a dark turn when Erdoğan pulled out his iPad and made the group watch a propaganda video that depicted Kurds as terrorists, according to three sources familiar with the meeting.
Why it matters: The meeting hosted by President Trump included five Republican U.S. senators who've been among the most vocal critics of Turkey's recent invasion of Syria and attacks on the U.S.'s Kurdish allies in the fight against ISIS.
* Erdoğan apparently thought he could sway these senators by forcing them to watch a clunky propaganda film.
* The senators in the meeting took turns pushing back on Erdoğan, while Trump sat back and watched, intervening occasionally to play traffic cop.
* The meeting comes as Erdoğan is trying to avoid sanctions over the purchase of a Russian missile defense system.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/erdogan-turkey-kurds-movie-oval-office-trump-gop-senators-b9acd411-19f3-4de6-9003-0525a43114bd.html
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,790 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)the security check stations.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)These assholes torpedoed Hillary's presidency over E-MAILS and we can't even begin to keep a running list of the horrible security breaches the Benny Hill Show has engaged in ...
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)in the senate:
Link to tweet
Sen Menendez tried to a get an up and down vote, yesterday. Lindsey Graham blocked it.
Tweet text:
"US Senator Lindsey Graham - instead of just casting his single vote against S.Res.150 - has chosen to block all 99 of his colleagues from a chance to vote up-or-down on the Armenian Genocide Resolution"
Insanity.
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)a remainder that Lindsey is owned by Trump, and needs to do what Trump wants at some point during the meeting. Or perhaps Erdogan is also a member of the we own Lindsey club now.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)rainin
(3,010 posts)No one person should EVER have that much power. If they don't have at least a 1/3 on their side, they shouldn't be able to stop a vote. Same with the Security Council of the UN. It should countries take two to derail action, or at least the offending country should not be allowed to vote.
intrepidity
(7,241 posts)Who will relieve us from this pestilence?
Roy Rolling
(6,856 posts)I suspect Trump asked for some propaganda to back his claims Kurds were bad people and needed to be driven from Syria.
Erdogan complied.
gordianot
(15,226 posts)Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)The string of pathetically weak ass moments with the most vile of world leaders punking the US continues to go on ...
olegramps
(8,200 posts)nature-lover
(1,452 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)that Erdogan probably got more kompromat on trump. It's a cynical way of looking at it.
jeffreyi
(1,934 posts)Are forbidden in the Oval Office. Is this where it happened, and is this true?