"BLOOD, OIL, AND HEADSCARVES: AL-BASHIR VISITS ANKARA
By Gareth Jenkins
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) literally rolled out the red carpet for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on January 21, as he began a three-day official visit to Turkey. Despite being a pariah to most of the international community as the result of his administration’s alleged support for the perpetrators of mass ethnic cleansing in Darfur, on his arrival in Ankara al-Bashir was accorded the full honors Turkish protocol bestows on a visiting head of state, including not just a red carpet but a military guard of honor and a 21-gun salute."
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