Top senator calls for removal of Turkey's U.S. ambassador
Source: Reuters
U.S. Senator John McCain, one of the leading foreign policy voices in Congress, on Thursday urged the expulsion of Turkey's U.S. ambassador after violence erupted between protesters and Turkish security personnel during President Tayyip Erdogan's recent visit.
"We should throw their ambassador the hell out of the United States of America ... This kind of thing cannot go unresponded to diplomatically," McCain, the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told MSNBC in an interview on Thursday, adding that legal action could also be pursued.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-protests-idUSKCN18E1OT
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)Trump wishes he could send his goons against protests like this. Erdogan is one of his personal heroes.
babylonsister
(170,956 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,855 posts)While I disagree with most of his votes, he is one of the few Repubs that still has a soul.
mpcamb
(2,854 posts)SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Mad-in-Mo
(229 posts)eissa
(4,238 posts)Kudos to McCain for stepping up. A foreign government allowing their personnel and hired thugs to beat down American protestors on American soil is unprecedented and repulsive.
wolfie001
(2,131 posts)And, might I add, damn straight!!!
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)lark
(22,993 posts)I bet he got off on the violence, he's that mean and hate filled.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)President Erdogan should also be kicked out of the country. That type of behavior should not be tolerated in the United States.