Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has contacted US Secretary of State John Kerry to object to recent statements from Washington expressing concern over Turkey's handling of mass anti-government protests, a foreign ministry diplomat said....
Kerry on Monday said he was concerned by reports of excessive use of force by Turkish police to quell the biggest protests since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decade in power, urging all sides to "avoid any provocations or violence."
Davutoglu assured Kerry an investigation was under way into the police response, the ministry source said.
The diplomat added that the foreign minister told Kerry the protests were not "extraordinary", comparing them to the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprang up in the United States in 2011.Al Jazeera
Turkey angry at US comments on protests
Talk about rank hypocrisy.
At least Turkey is promising to conduct an inquiry into police actions. In the US, where operations were coordinated by the Department of Homeland Security (read "secret police"), not so much. This would be laughable if it were not so pathetic.
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Mike, if you thought New York was bad, you should have seen what happened in Oakland CA (under a progressive/liberal Mayor) - the orders were coming not from City Hall, but rather from DHS
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