Turkey and Iran have both sought to exploit and support violent protests in the US over the weekend for the killing of George Floyd by a policeman in Minneapolis. Turkey is one of the world’s largest jailers of journalists and Iran’s government murdered 1,500 protesters last year but that hasn’t stopped them from using the opportunity to kick the USA.
Even as Iran’s regime was supporting the protests in the US, which turned violent in many cities over the weekend, the regime in Tehran was gunning down peaceful Kurdish “kolbars” – people who move goods across the border.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – who is known for ethnically cleansing Kurds in northern Syria and whose army carried out a drone strike that killed two civilians on Saturday in Iraq – also gave his full backing to the US protests. He called America “racist and fascist” and said that the behavior of people in Minneapolis was the result of a “painful manifestation of the unjust order we stand against across the world.”
Erdogan also said that Turkey condemns the “inhuman mentality” in the US and that it stands against all attacks targeting humanity.
This comes as Kurdish and Yazidi women were found being held in a secret prison run by Turkish-backed Syrian rebel extremists in Syria. Journalists and activists are arrested almost every week in Turkey.
The comments by Ankara and Tehran and their use of the term “world order” appear to be co-ordinated messaging that represents a view that they could increasingly work together against America to reduce the US role in the world. The Muslim Brotherhood – which influences the leading party in Ankara – and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran met in 2014 in Turkey to create a campaign that would extend their influence over the middle east despite ideological differences.
When Erdogan said that there is an “unjust order we stand against across the world” and Ahmadinejad wrote that there is a “current world order which we all must unite against,” either their similar tweets were written by the same person or this talking point is being circulated in Ankara and Tehran as a way to exploit the American protests to confront the US.
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