NATO preparing for an attack on Strasbourg

[Atatürk]

Security high for key Nato summit


Tens of thousands of protesters are expected at the summit venues

A massive French-German security operation is in place as US President Barack Obama and other leaders arrive for a key Nato summit in Strasbourg.


French police were still holding more than 100 of the 300 people arrested on Thursday when masked protesters smashed bus shelters and burnt rubbish bins.
Some 25,000 French police are set to patrol protests which could attract tens of thousands of demonstrators.
Several hundred German soldiers are at two sites where activists are expected.
The German town of Kehl and the resort of Baden-Baden are also hosting Nato events for the alliance's 60th-anniversary summit.
Mr Obama flew in from London, where he attended the G20 summit.
Before the Nato meeting, he will hold talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Strasbourg and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Baden-Baden.

President Obama flew from London after the G20 summit to the Nato talks

He is expected to seek more support from America's Nato allies to fight the Taleban in Afghanistan.
France last month announced it would be fully re-integrated into Nato.
For decades it has stood at a distance from the alliance, taking part in military operations but not in its central planning and decision-making.
Protests have already begun, with police in Strasbourg firing tear gas and rubber bullets as they forced a crowd back on Thursday.
Groups of youths, many wearing hoods or scarves, walked through a suburb of the city carrying banners saying: "Stop repression in London and Strasbourg".
Bus stops and vehicles were vandalised, shop windows smashed and a barricade put up on one street.
One protester rammed a pole through the front window of a police vehicle.
A passenger in the car appeared to be holding a handgun as it quickly reversed.
In a separate incident, AFP reported that a German photographer had been taken to hospital after being injured in the stomach by a rubber bullet.
An eyewitness who asked not to be named told the BBC that riot vans and water cannon had been seen heading towards the protesters' official camp in Ganzau, south of the city.

New leader
At the talks, the state leaders are expected to consider relations with Russia and possibly announce a new secretary general.
The current secretary general, Dutch diplomat Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, steps down at the end of July.
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen is the frontrunner, but Turkey has expressed opposition to his appointment, based on his stance over the Danish publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2006.

Is anyone else really worried that the protesters of the G20 will carry on their rampage and march on Strasbourg?


I just don't want to see pictures like this again:

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[Chaigidel]

ataturk, the protests were a joke at the g20 that cop is covered in paint.

our leaders are figuring out ways to put a stop to the global overclass; removing tax havens, removing the ability of people to hide money.

everyone should be praising the G20
government is your only ally against the overclass.

[Ahlerich]

i heard the protesters aquired weapons of mass destruction. but dont worry they wont march all the way to ankara.
is that paint on the cops face? pretty sure it is.

[._.]

i hope its not paint death to the pigs

[Scar Face]

Pretty stupid how the protest at London was basically a show. There does deserve to be protests, but no one should be sensationalizing it/doing acts of violence. Oh well, bound to happen I guess.

[Gromovnik]

The guy is unstoppable.

[Selifator]

Then don't post...oh wait. Damnation!

[Gromovnik]

Then don't post...oh wait. Damnation!

You see how hard is to resist?

[Fiyenyaa]

New leader
At the talks, the state leaders are expected to consider relations with Russia and possibly announce a new secretary general.
The current secretary general, Dutch diplomat Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, steps down at the end of July.
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen is the frontrunner, but Turkey has expressed opposition to his appointment, based on his stance over the Danish publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2006.

Brilliant. Another nail in the coffin of Kemal Ataturks' legacy of a once-secular Turkey. Depressing.

[Atatürk]

Brilliant. Another nail in the coffin of Kemal Ataturks' legacy of a once-secular Turkey. Depressing.

You don't understand Turkish politics completely, but don't worry, I forgive you.

No government can make Turkey anything other than secular. If any government moves Turkey away from being secular then the Army will intervene.

You see, the Turkish Army are independent from the government. They are the protectors of Kemalism. Some might argue that it's a breach of democracy, but it's for the best.

[Fiyenyaa]

You don't understand Turkish politics completely, but don't worry, I forgive you.

No government can make Turkey anything other than secular. If any government moves Turkey away from being secular then the Army will intervene.

You see, the Turkish Army are independent from the government. They are the protectors of Kemalism. Some might argue that it's a breach of democracy, but it's for the best.

You're right, I don't fully understand Turkish politics, but I once saw it as a country moving away from religiously-informed government, under a religion that seems to have very few other examples of this.

But from what I've seen in the past few years, the current government of Turkey are trying to reverse this process. I remember the giant protests in favour of secularism that happened a couple of years ago, and was heartened by them - but the PM's wife wears a headscarf, which I understand used to be illegal. I'm a naturally pessimistic person, forgive me.

If the Army help to keep Turkey Secular, I'm all for it.

[Farnan]

The Turkish Army is one of the few who when they take over consistently return Turkey to civilian governance...

[Atatürk]

The Turkish Army is one of the few who when they take over consistently return Turkey to civilian governance...

They follow the ideals of Kemalism and as I have mentioned before, they are the protectors of its philosophy. Kemalism is anti-authoritarian, which is very different from the days of the Sultan.

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Your posts are so stupid. That man has paint on his face.

[Atatürk]

Your posts are so stupid. That man has paint on his face.

shhhh

[cupoftea]