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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 06:45 AM Jun 2014

US pressured Denmark to close Kurdish TV so Rasmussen would become NATO chief – lawyer

The US put pressure on Danish authorities to close the Kurdish Roj TV channel in order to appease Turkey. This was done so Anders Fogh Rasmussen's position as NATO secretary general would be secure, the station's lawyer told RT amid WikiLeaks revelations.

WikiLeaks documents released back in March suggest Rasmussen abused his powers during his time as Denmark's prime minister, in order to secure his future job.

In 2009, Denmark reportedly agreed to start legal action against Roj TV, a Kurdish separatist channel that was broadcasting from Copenhagen, in order to appease Turkey. In return, Ankara said it would back Rasmussen as the future NATO chief.

“There were some conflicts of political character between Denmark and Turkey. And the US intervened because they liked very much [for the] then-Danish prime minister to become secretary general. And therefore they felt confident with him as a secretary general,” Roj TV lawyer Bjorn Elmquist told RT.

“There was big pressure from the US to think in a creative manner how to indict and how to prove that Roj television was promoting terrorism. And in the end, the indictment was there. And within hours after that indictment it was announced that there was an agreement between the Turkish government and the other NATO countries to decide for the previous Danish prime minister to be secretary general.”

http://rt.com/news/169156-us-denmark-turkey-rasmussen/

Actual source is Wikileaks.

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US pressured Denmark to close Kurdish TV so Rasmussen would become NATO chief – lawyer (Original Post) dipsydoodle Jun 2014 OP
The United States government has their SamKnause Jun 2014 #1
For all the talk about press freedom cprise Jun 2014 #2

SamKnause

(13,043 posts)
1. The United States government has their
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 10:03 AM
Jun 2014

noses stuck up the business of almost every country on the planet.

They are the habitual shit stirrers.

They sicken me.

P.S. Thank you WikiLeaks.

Thank you Julian Assange.

cprise

(8,445 posts)
2. For all the talk about press freedom
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 04:44 PM
Jun 2014

...I'm amazed this stuff isn't of any concern to the US media.

Seems they only like putting the spotlight on countries that haven't sold themselves at fire-sale prices to their globalist financiers.

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