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bacasper
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 Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:30 am Post subject: High-level fisticuffs at Hillary-Erdogan meeting |
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US, Turkish officials get physical in Qatar
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:06:21 GMT
A fight broke out between high-ranking US and Turkish officials at a meeting held between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Qatar.
The fight was reported between the US ambassador to Qatar and an advisor to the Turkish prime minister at the end of a 20-minute meeting between Clinton and Erdogan on Monday.
The altercation took place after the US envoy entered the room to remind those present to close the meeting as the time was over.
In response, Erdogan's adviser said, "It is not for you to judge the importance of our meeting, you offend our country," the Turkish daily Today's Zaman reported.
The quarrel led to physical confrontation and the two diplomats were separated with difficulty. |
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mithridates
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| Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:29 am Post subject: |
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Press TV is 80% hype and bullshit. Don't bother quoting anything that appears there. Here's what Today's Zaman says:
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Meanwhile, Turkish dailies yesterday claimed a quarrel broke out between Erdoğan�s foreign relations adviser Ambassador Fuat Tanlay and US Ambassador to Qatar Joseph LeBaron during the Erdoğan-Clinton meeting when the latter was not allowed to go into the meeting room by Turkish officials.
LeBaron reportedly insisted on entering the room and warned Clinton that she had another meeting with the Qatari emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, when the meeting exceeded the time allotted. LeBaron reportedly said: �This meeting should end. There is a meeting with the Qatar sheikh and is more important than this one.� In response to LeBaron�s remarks, Tanlay said that Turkey cannot be offended and that the US ambassador had overstepped his bounds. �You cannot decide on our importance,� he said. Other officials who were present reportedly calmed the two diplomats down after the tension broke out. |
Another example of Press TV BS here. |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:52 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I thought it a bit odd that something like this was not more widely reported. |
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mithridates
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| Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:04 am Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| Yeah, I thought it a bit odd that something like this was not more widely reported. |
I'm sure it happened (and maybe it was even a tiny bit physical), but general Press TV methodology is to take the parts they like and blow them out of proportion, and then take the parts they don't like them and make them seem as tiny as possible. It's pretty much the same strategy as Fox's reporting all on the Tea Party rallies but not the gay rights march with the same number of people that happened a tiny bit (two weeks?) later, except that Fox is just an angry mouthpiece for one of two parties in the US and where there are a lot of alternatives to get one's news whereas Press TV is a mouthpiece for the entire Iranian government that is also capable of outright banning other sources of information that it dislikes. |
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NovaKart
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| Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Looks like Turkish diplomats are really touchy these days. Look at what happened in Israel. I haven't heard anything about this in Turkey, seems like people are more concerned with the floods caused by the new dam in Bulgaria. |
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