ALERT: US Base in Turkey Under Siege… Obama Nowhere to Be Found and Mainstream Media Silent
The U.S. State Department also issued a travel warning July 26 that authorized “the voluntary departure of family members of employees posted to the U.S. Embassy in Ankara and U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey,” which replaced the travel warning put in place following the coup in Turkey.
The base has been in the media lately in relation to the Turkish coup that took place on July 15. Turkish prosecutors and police have conducted searches of the base and detained air base commander Gen. Bekir Ercan Van there along with a dozen officers of lower rank who were accused of being part of the coup.
U.S. media has been largely silent in regard to these protests, as has been President Obama. Obama supported Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan despite extraordinary evidence to suggest he shouldn’t.
Protests like these, with blatant anti-Semitism and anti-American sentiments, aren’t something that the media or the Obama administration want people to know about.