Reuters:
City authorities in Turkey’s capital Ankara have renamed the street where the new U.S. embassy is being built ‘Malcolm X Avenue’ after the U.S. civil rights leader, state media reported.
The move coincides with a period of fraught relations between Turkey and the United States and comes after other politically charged name changes to streets in Ankara.
In February, the city renamed the street outside the current U.S. Embassy “Olive Branch”, which is what Turkey called one of its military campaigns in Syria. Ankara is at odds with Washington over its backing of forces led by the Kurdish YPG militia, which Turkey views as a terrorist group.
Radical U.S. civil rights leader Malcolm X remains a divisive figure in U.S. history and Ankara’s move will likely be received negatively by critics who say he stirred racist and anti-U.S. sentiment.
“The street was given the name of U.S. Muslim politician and human rights defender Malcolm X, about whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said ‘we will make his name live on in Ankara,” Ankara’s municipality said in a statement published by Anadolu news agency on Saturday.
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Erdogan is shooting at the wrong target... T. E. Lawrence was a British agent...
Erdogan set up a trap for Trump and he fell right into it. First, he released the American hostage in Turkey so that Trump can take credit for it. Then he started leaking info about how Khashoggi was murdered to the US intelligence agencies and the press through pro-government Turkish media. Now Trump is stuck with going after his buddy Bin Salman and defending his nemesis The Washington Post.
p.s. The whole story about how Khashoggi recorded the attack inside the consulate by his Apple Watch and sent it thru Blue Tooth to his fiancé holding his iPhone outside of the consulate is totally bogus. The Turks had staff working in the consulate and the consular residence, and they most likely bugged the place and have the audio/visual files which they don’t want to release to the public because it shows that they were spying, which is not nice, also it will expose their sources and methods.
Trump has his hand full on this one.