Erdogan assaulted in UN building

Unidentified man tries to attack Turkish PM during Abbas' speech, stopped by bodyguards

Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 09.24.11, 00:11 / Israel News


NEW YORK – An unidentified man on Friday tried to assault Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

Erdogan's bodyguards immediately stopped the man. Erdogan himself was not injured during the incident.

Minister of Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Yuli Edelstein, who witnessed the attack outside the General Assembly hall, described it as a "very violent incident. Like a scene out of a movie."

The circumstances of the incident were still unclear, but some claim it may be connected to the internal conflict taking place between Turkey and the Kurdish rebels.

remainder: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4126682,00.html

A dirty thug.

... like Erdogan was a bit envious of the attention Abbas was getting inside the hall -- and decided to make a little scene outside the hall.


Girls! Girls! Girls! You're BOTH pretty!

It could be said at an all boys dinner party too :)

spoken by Tina Fey in a movie (said to two MALE characters).

So take it up with Ms. Fay's attorneys.

And in case you didn't notice in yr haste to have a good chuckle, Erdogan was assaulted. Yr trying to make out he's responsible for it, which is absolutely pathetic. If it was Nutty who'd been assaulted you'd be acting in a whole different way...

So -- at this point -- it's a very dramatic anecdote.

What's clear is that someone did. What's also clear is that what you said in that initial post was sexist...

You'd be reacting very differently if it was Nutty instead of Erdogan...

Why aren't you using those psychic powers to fight crime instead of posting on DU?

With great power comes great responsibility (also a movie line)

Unlike you, I wouldn't be sitting there cracking jokes about it and making out it was just an attention seeking prank....

... the poor Mr. Erdogan is getting adequate crisis counseling.

The sarcasm is really quite pathetic, imo...

And withdrawing from the UN or NATO over this incident.

He loves the drama.

Yet you are the one who hinted that the "distraction" was a little Turkish implemented incident to attract attention?

"... like Erdogan was a bit envious of the attention Abbas was getting inside the hall -- and decided to make a little scene outside the hall."

Hypocrite much lately or should we consider it to be the norm?

Kurd.

Turkey seizes Syrian ship, announces arms embargo

Turkey has seized a Syrian-flagged ship and will intercept any arms shipments headed to Syria, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said late on Friday, a response to Damascus' bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters.

Speaking to reporters in New York late on Friday where he attended the UN General Assembly, Erdogan said Turkey had stopped a Syrian-flagged ship in Marmara, according to state-run Anatolia News Agency. It did not indicate whether the ship was stopped in the Sea of Marmara or the port of Marmara.

Erdogan did not say when the ship was seized or whether any weapons were found aboard.

"We have already made a decision to stop and prevent any vehicle carrying any type of weapon to Syria. We told them our decision as well as shared it with neighboring countries," Anatolia quoted Erdogan as saying.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=239287

Send in some nasty rightwing thugs on flotillas and call them peace activists!

Stock the ships with some cases of Coca Cola and Cheetos!

Now it's an aid flotilla.

Come on guys, let's do it!

Is Erdogan blocking food, medicine and all exports imports from Syria? One could gather from your 'carefully' worded posts that you seem to believe anything that gets into Gaza is a weapon

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Turkey still occupies the part of their country too.

but it's so nice to see how some here have discovered a genocide, the Kurds, and gasp Cyprus after how many years now albeit some might call this new found sympathy cynical

Erdgan is a miserable pos slug .

One can speculate in various ways as to why that is so, but it does suggest to me that it was not a big deal.

It sounds like the bodyguards stopped him before he could get to Erdogan. If they didn't, then they're pretty crap bodyguards...

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon extends personal apology to Turkish PM over his attack by UN Guard officer

Roy Yerushalmi Published: 09.24.11, 18:41 / Israel News


UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offered Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan a personal apology on Saturday over his assault at the UN building.

Erdogan was assault by a man the Turkish media identified as a member of the UN Guard during Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' speech at the United Nations General Assembly, on Friday.

Erdogan's bodyguards immediately stopped the man and Erdogan himself was unharmed.

"I'm afraid there was an unfortunate incident," the Turkish prime minister was quoted as saying by Ankara's daily newspaper Sabah. Erdogan did not elaborate on the incident, saying only that he was kept out of the General Assembly Hall during Abbas' speech by security guards.

The Turkish media underscored the fact that Ban offered his personal apology to Erdogan for the incident because his assailant was a UN Guard officer.

in full: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4126796,00.html

it first surfaced.

If the Turks were using it they would have made noise about it. (Not that I think the idea is ridiclous.)

security guard is, how long has he worked there etc.

But I have no idea why, and speculation seems unwise without more info.

Resurgent Turkey has become a Middle East story to watch, and just how perilous standing in its way can be became abundantly clear to a few somewhat hapless United Nations security guards during the annual General Assembly meeting of world leaders.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was apparently pushed by a United Nations guard while demanding to enter the General Assembly hall through the wrong entrance on Friday, according to diplomats and United Nations officials. An ensuing melee sent one guard to the hospital and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon scurrying over to the Turkish mission to apologize, they said.

Details of the incident remain murky, despite Mr. Ban’s often declared commitment to “transparency.” The United Nations’ spokesman, Martin Nesirky, refused to clarify what happened beyond saying the “unfortunate misunderstanding” had been “satisfactorily resolved.” The Turks made no official comment.

But some particulars have emerged from diplomats and at least one United Nations official who overheard the altercation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/world-peace-still-elusive-as-un-guards-scuffle-with-turks.html

perhaps they do want that one quiet

If that's what happened, you've got to feel bad for the injured guard as well as the ones who were suspended. They were just doing their jobs and I doubt world leaders walk around with big nametags saying who they are. It reminds me of the recent incident in New Zealand at a Pacific Islands forum where our PM was told to get on the spouses bus when she tried to get on the bus for the leaders who were attending....

http://www.smh.com.au/world/get-on-the-spouses-bus-nz-driver-refuses-gillard-entry-20110915-1kaeo.html

I do feel bad for the guards, and it leads me to wonder about various things, but not enough to hazard an opinion about. This is the UN, after all, a big collection of politicians from all over the world, so what could go wrong?