Turkey not to "leave Crimean Tatars in the lurch"

[levp]

Source: Anadolu Agency (Turkey)

Turkish PM Erdogan says that Turkey will back Crimean Tatars to protect their rights amid the ongoing crisis in Ukraine

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would support Crimean Tatars in maintaining their political rights amid the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

"We will not leave Crimean Tatars in the lurch,” Erdogan said during a rally in the central Anatolian city of Eskisehir before the local elections on March 30.

Read more: http://www.aa.com.tr/en/s/298078--turkey-not-to-quot-leave-crimean-tatars-in-the-lurch-quot

[dipsydoodle]

1. Turkey is generally

all mouth and no trousers.

[cosmicone]

2. How is he going to do that?

Send troops to Crimea? <snickers> That would legitimize Putin's actions to protect Russians!

[bemildred]

3. He just did legitimize Putin's argument by saying that. nt

[okaawhatever]

6. There is zero legitimacy to Putin's argument. Saying someone HAS harmed Russian speaking people

(which the Tatars are, btw) and saying someone WILL isn't the same thing. Putin said the first, the gov't of Turkey the latter.

[bemildred]

7. Yes, of course, not the same thing at all.

I thought the idea a couple days ago was that Hitler invented it, but it keeps changing.

[NoOneMan]

4. Turkey and Taters for Lunch!

[TeeYiYi]

5. Criminy!

TYY