08-02-2003 01:06									#1
	Turkey denies entry of human shields headed to Iraq! Full PM-box? Change here!

Turkey just went up several notches on the political ladder in my mind =)

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAQ69EHWBD.html

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Border police on Friday denied entry into Turkey to a former U.S. Marine who is leading an anti-war group of "human shields" headed for Iraq ahead of a possible U.S.-led attack, an official said.
Ken O'Keefe, the founder of the "Human Shield Mission" protest group who flew into Istanbul from Italy, was not let into the country when he presented a passport issued by the World Service Authority.

A spokesman of Istanbul airport, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Turkey does not recognize this passport.

The spokesman said O'Keefe protested, shouting that he had traveled across the world with that passport and was a "citizen of the world."

The U.S.-based World Service Authority issues passports on the basis of an article of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights that guarantees the right to travel freely. The authority says the passport is recognized by more than 150 countries.

Five other activists accompanying O'Keefe were allowed into the country, while O'Keefe flew back to Italy.

O'Keefe, 33, is a veteran of the 1991 Gulf War. He gave up his U.S. citizenship four years ago to protest U.S. foreign policy.

Another 38 members of the group arrived in Istanbul on Friday in a convoy of two red double-decker buses and several cars that has been traveling by land from Britain.

Scores of Turks waving signs saying "No to war" greeted the convoy in Istanbul's downtown Taksim square despite a heavy snowstorm.

The group, which includes Americans, Britons, Australians, Swiss and Greeks, will be joined by several Turks, private NTV television reported.

They plan to reach Baghdad next week. The protesters left London on Jan. 25.

	08-02-2003 01:10									#2
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If only it could deter them to reach Iraq. It would mean a little less blood would be spilled in the incoming slaughter.

	08-02-2003 01:14									#3
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quote: The U.S.-based World Service Authority issues passports on the basis of an article of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights that guarantees the right to travel freely. The authority says the passport is recognized by more than 150 countries.

That's amusing.

	08-02-2003 01:17									#4
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He was on FOX news. The guy is a shrill jerk.

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	08-02-2003 01:20									#5
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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc That's amusing.

Yep. And their criteria for this is 150 countries have "on at least one occasion" accepted their passport...

http://www.worldservice.org/visas.html

	08-02-2003 01:25									#6
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Hey, we're all fellow travellers on this spaceship Earth.

	08-02-2003 02:28									#7
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Well when the Turks slaughter the Kurds, they don't want to have to apologize for killing American bystanders.

	08-02-2003 03:04									#8
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Out of 143 countries that have "one at least one occasion" stamped these visas, a whopping...5...officially recognized them as of April 1994.

Turkey is not one of them.
Neither is Iraq.

	08-02-2003 05:51									#9
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There was a blithering article in our college newspaper on this- seems an alum is part of this effort to deter the eeevil US military from blowing up all those hospitals like they intend to.

	08-02-2003 16:33									#10
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Looks like they have changed their minds.

	08-02-2003 18:32									#11
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Why would anybody want to stop him?

I say help him all he wants.

If Saddam is a guy worth protecting, he should certainly be permitted to go protect him.

	08-02-2003 18:50									#12
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Did they get those free cell phones yet?

	08-02-2003 19:45									#13
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Wow, on a WSA passport you can go to:

BURKINA FASO!
ECUADOR!
MAURITANIA!
TOGO! and
ZAMBIA!

also note that the organization's visas page hasn't been updated for six years.

	08-02-2003 22:08									#14
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The whole point is that Turkey did not do what the thread title says - they only denied entry to someone whose papers had problems.

quote: Turkey just went up several notches on the political ladder in my mind

Vesayen, you made a faux pas.

Btw, didn't Turkey declare that they will have nothing to do with this war?

	08-02-2003 22:12									#15
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quote: Originally posted by axi Btw, didn't Turkey declare that they will have nothing to do with this war?

IIRC, They won't participate but they will allow the US to use its bases in Turkey to attack Iraq.

	08-02-2003 22:44									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Lancer He was on FOX news. The guy is a shrill jerk. Marines

I saw him on CNN. What a loud mouthed A-hole; he should go back to school and learn a little bit about history before he says "The U.S. is the worst, most evil place in the history of the world".

He's a complete idiot.