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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:28 PM Oct 2019

Kurdish journalists: A Kurdish politician, a 35-year old woman, was raped & stoned to death...

Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance

Kurdish journalists report that a Kurdish politician, a 35-year old woman, was raped & stoned to death by advancing Turkish forces. What’s happening in Syria is due to Trump taking an unstaffed call with Erdogan & caving to his Turkish business allies.


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Kurdish journalists: A Kurdish politician, a 35-year old woman, was raped & stoned to death... (Original Post) Miles Archer Oct 2019 OP
Show of hands of people who think that shit couldn't happen here. A HERETIC I AM Oct 2019 #1
I'm curious customerserviceguy Oct 2019 #2
Some articles say stoned, some say shot. keithbvadu2 Oct 2019 #3

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
2. I'm curious
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:46 PM
Oct 2019

What are the Europeans saying, and especially doing, about this? Turkey likes to pretend that it is somehow a part of Europe, even though only about 5% of the country's landmass is on the European continent.

Of course, while the Orange Turd is still in the White House, we're going to do nothing, but have the Europeans taken any presumably effective steps to corral Turkey?

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