Turkey's Complete Lack Of Self Awareness About Human Rights Under Erdogan
December 31, 2017
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as posted by the channelMajority Report Contributor Michael Brooks is hosting the show for Sam Seder today. In this clip, Steven A. Cook, senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins the show to discuss the ongoing human rights issue going on under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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---t had been billed as a state visit that would patch up frayed ties between two NATO allies and potentially serve as a platform for Turkey to make overtures toward Europe after months of strained relations.
Instead, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had barely landed in Athens earlier this month before he rattled his Greek hosts by addressing a series of disputes, and calling into question a crucial treaty that delineates the two countries' borders and sets the status of their minorities.
His confrontational stance was one Erdogan's Western allies have become increasingly familiar with, as Turkey's president goes his own way, unfettered by collective goals and seeking to promote his country as a force to be reckoned with.
"Turkey is trying to detach itself from the West, to show that it is a player on the regional but also international stage, which has its own positions, its own interests, which are not necessarily in line ... with those of the West," said Constantinos Filis, research director of the Athens-based Institute of International Relations. Erdogan, he said, aimed to make his country into a great regional, military and economic power "whose interests are respected by all."---
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