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Sun Feb 15, 2015, 05:30 PM Feb 2015

Turkey’s Erdogan to Obama: Where’s outrage about Chapel Hill shootings?

In the wake of a shooting in Chapel Hill, N.C., that left three young American Muslims dead, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan made an unusual public criticism of American domestic policy Thursday, specifically challenging President Obama.

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The Turkish leader's comments came after widespread concern that Tuesday's shooting, which police are investigating as a possible hate crime, wasn't being treated as seriously because of the victims' religion. The three victims –Deah Barakat, 23, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha – are believed to have had an ongoing parking dispute with the man accused of killing them, but their friends and family argue that Craig Stephen Hicks's religious intolerance ultimately led him to kill.

By Friday afternoon, Obama had addressed the shootings, releasing a statement that called the deaths “brutal and outrageous." These comments were quickly portrayed by Turkey's pro-government media as being linked to Erdogan's outrage

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/02/13/turkeys-erdogan-to-obama-wheres-the-outrage-about-chapel-hill-shootings/

Something about kettles and pots?


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Turkey’s Erdogan to Obama: Where’s outrage about Chapel Hill shootings? (Original Post) question everything Feb 2015 OP
Do go on.... Buzz Clik Feb 2015 #1
so Mr. Erdogan tell us how you treat Kurds in your peaceful crime free nation nt msongs Feb 2015 #2
A mass shooting happens every 5 days in the USA Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #3

Pooka Fey

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3. A mass shooting happens every 5 days in the USA
Sun Feb 15, 2015, 07:46 PM
Feb 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179995/A-mass-shooting-happens-FIVE-days-America-Interactive-map-shows-gun-violence-epidemic-sweeping-nation.html

Americans are so exhausted by mass shootings, the only reason the Chapel Hill shooting made the papers was because the victims were Americans of Muslim faith. A 3 victim shooting normally doesn't make national news.

Upon re-reading, the accusation that the American criminal justice system will treat this crime differently than any other mass shooting in America is pathetic and outrageous. And yes, this was a hate crime.
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