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Saturday, May 07, 2016

Is Washington enabling despotism in Turkey? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Is Washington enabling despotism in Turkey?

"We would expect that Turkey will follow its own democratic procedures … I am not going to speak to the specifics of an internal process there inside Turkey. Gotta go." With these dismissive comments, US State Department spokesman John Kirby ducked questions at a press briefing last week about a Turkish government-inspired bill to strip lawmakers of their parliamentary immunity and clear the path for their prosecution over alleged crimes.

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