2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Monday, 17 September 2018
Working Session 10
Fundamental Freedoms I, Including Freedom of Expression
Intervention read by Uzay Bulut, representing Gatestone Institute
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
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Turkey guarantee the right of free speech for all citizens? Tell me another one.
Turkey will be Turkey. The real disharmony here is that Turkey is not only bound in alliance with NATO and the US, but that the US is pledged to defend Turkey. Turkish interests and those of the US have almost no overlap. If Turkey gets into conflict with Russia, it won’t exactly be in our interest, but won’t be radically against our interests either. The US has no more business intervening in a Russia-Turkey dispute than with a Ukraine-Russia dispute.