Turkey's Amb to U.S. Trashes Trump's Erdogan Letter: 'I Hope History Will Not Record it'

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/turkeys-ambassador-to-u-s-trashes-trumps-letter-to-erdogan-frankly-speaking-i-hope-history-will-not-record-it/

By Caleb EcarmaOct 17th, 2019, 7:30 pm

Serdar Kilic, the Turkish ambassador to the U.S., appeared on PBS to slam President Donald Trump’s now-infamous “don’t be a fool” message that he sent to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on October 9, telling NewsHour host Judy Woodruff that he hopes “history” does not remember the letter.

“Very frankly speaking, I hope history will not record that letter,” the Turkish diplomat said on Thursday while being asked if the letter pressured Trump. “That letter should not have been sent in the first place.”

“Frankly speaking, I hope history will not record that letter,” he added again. “That letter should not have been sent in the first place, because it lacks all the niceties, and it’s void of any established practices in that regard. I hope history is not going to record it in any case, in any way.”

When asked about Erdoğan’s response to the letter, Kilic simply pointed to Turkey’s recent invasion of Kurdish territory in northern Syria: “Well our reaction was given in Syria. We started conducting the operation.”

Woodruff then brought up reports that state Erdoğan threw a physical copy of the letter into a trash can, Kilic deflected from confirming the colorful anecdote but noted that Turkey saw the “letter as null and void” immediately after receiving it.

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That stupid fucking letter spurred Erdogan to send troops in.

[0rganism]

1. Mr. Kilic is going to be disappointed

history is going to say quite a bit about everything that's happened in the last five years. we live in "special" times when shit is going down hard and civilization's abilities to capture documentary evidence is, shall we say, unmatched.

for example, some of the Kurds may now have excellent audio-video evidence of Turkish war crimes. does that make you a little nervous, Mr. Kilic?

[Iliyah]

2. Well seems like Turkey enjoys

trashing and contradicting t-rump. Geez wiz the world is probably shaking their heads. Here in the USA the "sane" Americans are hoping our nightmare ends very soon and that his clown car, including Pence joins him.