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Erdogan
Cracks
Down, UN
Silent As When
His Guards
Beat UN
Security 2011
UNITED
NATIONS, June
15 -- Today's
crackdown in
Turkey on
peaceful
protesters in
Taksim
Square and
Gezi Park
by the
government of
Recep
Tayyip Erdogan
has been met
with silence
from the UN
and its
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon.
Ban
issued his
"warm
congratulations"
to Hasan
Rowhani for
winning the
presidential
election in
Iran, at 5 pm
Saturday New
York
time. But
nothing on
Turkey.
Back
on
Friday
September 23,
2011,
Inner City
Press first
reported on an
incident
inside UN
headquarters
where
Erdogan's
personal
guards "beat
up" UN
Security
officers,
breaking the
ribs of one.
Tellingly,
when
Ban's then
chief of staff
Vijay Nambiar
run across
First Avenue
to the Turkish
Mission --
again, first
reported by
Inner City
Press
-- it was to
apologize to
Erdogan.
Many
UN staff were
outraged, that
they could be
physically
beaten and Ban
would take the
other side.
But Erdogan
was throwing
his weight
around; some
cited anger at
the Palmer
(and Uribe)
report about
the
Gaza flotilla
incident.
Ban
met with UN
Security the
next day, Saturday,
September 24.
Nine were
suspended and
told not to
talk. Inner
City Press first
reported
that too;
others got on
the story only
on Monday
and later. It
was the
beginning of a
trend.
But
the real-world
trend is the
use of force,
and UN silence
and double
standards. And
it continues.
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site.
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