When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ascends the podium at the United Nations General Assembly, the question for Turkey watchers and journalists is not what he will say. After all, Erdoğan is in his rhetoric, his antics, and his nepotism increasingly like Muammar Qadhafi version 2.0. Rather, the looming question is when his body guards will attack protesters on the streets of New York. Alas, it seems that a series of decisions, first made by then-Secretary of State John Kerry and more recently from his successors Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo, make such incidents more likely.
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