More then 80 US politicians criticize in a letter Obama for his 'BFF' stance towards Pm Erdogan.

More then 80 US politicians criticize in a letter Obama for his 'BFF' stance towards Pm Erdogan. (HD).

More than 80 top foreign policy figures in the U.S. have penned a letter to President Barack Obama to urge him to change his silent stance against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his government’s “damaging of democracy” in Turkey.

“Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is increasingly undermining a central pillar of the decades-long, strategic U.S.-Turkish partnership: Turkey’s growing democracy. We are writing because of our deep dismay at this development and to urge you to make clear to the Turkish public America’s concern about Turkey’s current path. Silence will only encourage Prime Minister Erdoğan to diminish the rule of law in the country even further,” the letter read.

The letter was signed by several former Obama administration officials, including White House senior director Dennis Ross, State Department policy planning director Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Julianne Smith, an advisor to Vice President Joe Biden.

In the letter sent Feb. 20, the top figures described Erdoğan’s actions as “autocratic,” adding that the government’s reactions to the challenges they faced “threaten to take Turkey from an imperfect democracy to an autocracy.” The letter referenced the response to the Gezi Park protests, the corruption operations, and its controversial bills on the judiciary and the Internet as particulary points of concern.Read the full story here.More here.

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