"Ms. Hevrin Khalef was reportedly dragged from a vehicle and shot to death. That's a war crime."

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Brett McGurk ✔ @brett_mcgurk

Turkish state-backed media hails a “successful operation” to “neutralize” an unarmed 35-year old woman working to unite Arabs, Christians, and Kurds in NE Syria. Ms. Hevrin Khalef was reportedly dragged from a vehicle and shot to death. That’s a war crime.

Yeni Şafak ✔ @yenisafak

Terör örgütü PYD’nin Suriye’deki siyasi uzantılarından Suriye’nin Geleceği Partisi’nin Genel Sekreteri Hevin Halef, başarılı bir operasyonla etkisiz hale getirildi. https://www.yenisafak.com/dunya/orgute-ust-duzey-darbe-pydnin-suriyedeki-2-numarali-ismi-hevin-halef-etkisiz-hale-getirildi-3510133 …

4:11 PM - Oct 12, 2019

[Guilded Lilly]

1. More blood on the Cretin's hands. Permanent stain.

[rickyhall]

15. And all who support the son of a bitch!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

27. trump is now a war criminal.

[triron]

35. He is a multi-faceted criminal. Deserves Hell.

[mr_lebowski]

2. I honestly cannot remember ever being so pissed off as I am these last few days ...

It's definitely been around 15 years that's for sure.

This bullshit is as bad as it comes.

Godspeed to Ms. Hevrin Khalef, & my deepest sympathies go out to her family



And fuck this scumbag, man ... you know who I mean ...

[roamer65]

3. +1000000

You’re not alone.

[hedda_foil]

6. Not since the "shock and awe" bombardment of Baghdad for me.

😭

[hlthe2b]

7. Damned right.. I am so ashamed of what is happening in our name.

and

[hmanne]

10. I'm right there with you.

Cross gently Ms. Hevrin Khalef.

[LuckyCharms]

17. Same way here.

Pretty much a constant blind rage.

[certainot]

32. your local rw radio station is the problem

and it will continue in a coordinated effort with 1500 other stations to sell the bullshit

[oldsoftie]

43. You give radio WAY too much credit. Its not nearly the influence it used to be.

Even Limbaughs numbers are nowhere near where they were when Bill Clinton was President. Listeners today are just echo chamber folks. Back in the old days, Rush was a shiny new object. Even had a damn TV show!
Today, along with the others, he's just talking to people that already agree with him & want something to post on FB.

[certainot]

51. you're wrong and a new book by brian rosenwald may finally give it the blame it deserves -

Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States Hardcover – August 13, 2019

here's part of a review

Donald Trump borrowed conservative radio hosts’ playbook and gave Republican base voters the kind of pugnacious candidate they had been demanding for decades. By 2016, a political force no one intended to create had completely transformed American politics.

talk radio is still the only reason bush and trump even got close to the white house and the only thing keeping trump and GOP in contention for anything except for in a few deep red racist parts of the country.

ignoring it has been the biggest political mistake in history

republiconradio.org

[oldsoftie]

56. Well there are plenty of billionaires who could just buy out iHeart Media

And put on someone else. Limbaugh could start his OWN network if he wanted to.
Its easy to blame limbaugh & the others. But if they were that influential pres Obama would never have won two terms. Or Clinton. And the GOP had its worst defeat in 50 yrs in 2018, so they must not be doing THAT great of a job

When you look at Limbaughs numbers, a "listener" is counted as someone who listens for at least 5 minutes. Thats a pretty lame metric if you ask me. Hell, a good number of DUers have probably heard him for 5 minutes!

Trump is an anomaly. That book doesnt hit the main reason he won, according to the voters who put him over who had voted for Obama before. I wont go into that here because of the likely attacks.
That wont happen again. His "base" doesnt include those voters.
All we need is a good candidate & he's out

[certainot]

58. they still have an avg of about 30 stations per state and those are the

stations that people have to listen to for free easy traffic weather sports etc

that unchallenged repetition, that buzz dominating 40 states with 80 senators, is the ONLY way to sell this level of bullshit. that buzz with a vast secondary and tertiary audience of apathetic disinformed and lazy americans is why we're in this disaster more than any other factor.

no, trump is not an aberration - those stations have been putting ignorant racist misogynyst corrupt republican shits in to office for years

no it doesnt always beat democracy but it is why obama couldn't get the progress we wanted

ignoring talk radio continues to be the biggest political mistake in history

[Docreed2003]

4. This is sickening

And it's infuriating that Trump will do absolutely nothing about this.

[gratuitous]

12. Trump HAS done something about it

He set it in motion.

[bluestarone]

20. THIS!

like he did with Khashoggi

[triron]

36. He has been accessory to several murders.

[pandr32]

54. That he has!

He deserves to be blamed. He crossed the divide between our allies and those we have been struggling against clearly placing us on the wrong side. He did it intentionally and with the intent to help our enemies.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. TrumPutin will continue to collect money from the Istanbul towers

Link to tweet

(Note date)

[tblue37]

28. He went golfing. nt

[Docreed2003]

30. Of course he did

[ck4829]

41. It is

[smirkymonkey]

5. Arghhhhhhh!

I hate these bastards!

[Dennis Donovan]

11. Turkey should be tossed from NATO ASAP

[lpbk2713]

8. Barbaric and subhuman.

And Trump won't even blink an eye.

[IronLionZion]

13. Trump is up to his eyeballs in this

doing Putin's and Erdogan's bidding instead of commitments to the United States' long time allies.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. Truth

[Glimmer of Hope]

9. Horrible!

[William Seger]

14. Translation of the referenced Tweet:

One of the political extensions of the terrorist organization PYD in Syria, the Secretary-General of the Future Party of Syria, Hevin Halef, was neutralized by a successful operation.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

39. Terrorist organization...

POSOTUS and Fux Spews have names for Democrats too...

[ck4829]

42. Weird how she's a terorrist but people who shoot up churches and schools aren't

[erronis]

16. Same mentality that lets a princeling from SA murder a journalist.

Or the self-installed leader of a reborn USSR kill anyone he wants.

Or the invalidly installed peeResident of the US allow the murder of Kurds, children at the border, older citizens relying on food aid.

Or this same moron thinking he can kill anyone, anywhere with impunity.


I sure hope there is some lasting and quick justice in this universe.

[OKNancy]

18. Be careful if you go on twitter. Some real horrible graphic videos

and photos. People aren't shy about tweeting out stomach turning stuff.
I looked for a half second, but it's hard to miss.

[nolabear]

31. I saw some and had to stop. I can't imagine. I'm so ashamed.

I wish we could take it back.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. Blood on your tiny hands Drumph. I'm sure you're fine with it. We're not.

[SCVDem]

22. Meanwhile,

Barr is pushing his religious bullshit!

So much pain and suffering by the poor evangelicals.

I don't see pictures of them having holes blown in their bodies.

[bobbieinok]

23. Their congregation has placed 'a prayer covering' over them under which their God is protecting them

[SARCASM!. Though 'prayer coverings' are as actual 'things' in charismatic churches]

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. +++++++💯

[GulfCoast66]

24. When we finally have a decent administration we need a major NATO overhaul.

I understand why Turkey was let in during the Cold War.

But NATO needs to also become the home of Liberal Democracies.

Turkey should be out. They have ancient animosity to Russia so let them stew together.

Hungry, Poland and all the others flirting or actually dancing with anti-Democratic government. You have to choose. Be a Liberal Democracy or have fun with the Russians. They have been Blackmailing the EU and NATO for too long. Time to call their bluff and turn the table on them.

[Pachamama]

44. [phone]

This....

[bdamomma]

26. OMG

an innocent life gone. tRump needs to be arrested he is the one who okayed this assault on our allies.

[dawnie51]

29. How quickly one can go.....

from being a loud mouthed blowhard TV screech monkey to being a globally known war criminal. Bet he never thought about that shit before.

[certainot]

33. fuck you republican right handed masturbating shitwads

[dalton99a]

34. The Trump-sanctioned campaign of terror and assassinations has begun

[BlancheSplanchnik]

37. No. Words. 😰😪

[ck4829]

40. ...

[Pachamama]

45. Someone remind me again of what Mike Flynn was being paid for by Turkey in addition to his work for

...Russia?

And where is Mr Flynn now and why isn’t he in prison??

[Johnny2X2X]

46. Being reported she was raped and stoned to death

This is enraging and terrifying that Trump caused this to happen.

[Neema]

48. Unfortunately I saw the video late in the night in Twitter. Horrifying

doesn’t even begin to describe it. I thought I already loathed Dolt45 with every fiber of my being but I seem to have found a few more fibers.

[demmiblue]

47. Hevrin Khalef

[Neema]

49. Not shot, raped and then stoned.

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[cynatnite]

50. Link?

I have not read or heard that anywhere.

[JHB]

52. Tweet from Kurdish journalist

See this thread:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212577910

Not necessarily correct, but it's a report.

[cynatnite]

55. I'm seeing more reporting about it on twitter. n/t

[Neema]

61. I couldn't sleep last night and saw a video. At first I didn't know what I was

looking at, then realized too late. They didn't film the rape, but they filmed her body covered in stones. It was awful.

[Desert_Leslie]

53. Where is the outrage?

I was in tears on Day One of the Kurdish Genocide ... and now I am filled with rage ... and utterly aghast that the Syria story doesn't lead the news every single day.

I knocked & walked for my senate candidate in 2018 (she won, thank goodness), and I am going to start even earlier for 2020 and do as much as humanly possible.

"Today we can sit home ... yell at the TV ... and accomplish nothing."

I sure as hell am going to do AS MUCH AS I CAN to get Democrats into office. It's literally the only thing I can do in the current scenario.

[getagrip_already]

59. ask the Armenians or Greeks........

This isn't turkeys first genocide or mass killing.

You get what you forget.

[rockfordfile]

57. The GOP and Trump are responsible for this

[Alwaysna]

60. In response to our justifiable outrage I can hear the magat crowd ask

"What about Benghazi and her e-mails?"