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It's not so long ago that a gang of Turkish government thugs beat the crap out of protesters on US soil and pretty much nothing of consequence came of it. http

It's not so long ago that a gang of Turkish government thugs beat the crap out of protesters on US soil and pretty much nothing of consequence came of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clashes_at_the_Turkish_Ambassador%27s_Residence_in_Washington,_D.C.#U.S._Congressional_action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clashes_at_the_Turkish_Ambassa... I think our (British) border staff capitulating to these abusive international policing requests is pretty humiliating. But as you say, it's not new to anyone that this is happening.

skippyboxedhero 3y ago
We have to capitulate because the British policing system is forced to cooperate through international agreements (this isn't often reciprocated, these agreements hand massive power to undemocratic countries because we have to comply and they comply when they feel like it). Turkish judges are actually part of our legal system, we are told that this is an essential part of our legal system respecting the rule of law...people want to have it all and every way (the UK is a horrible police state...but we have to accept the primacy of Turkish judges in our laws...you cannot have it both ways).