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Jack Straw gives Erdogan’s wife humanitarian award
Critics say was ‘designed to whitewash Turkey’s war crimes’
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) together with his wife Emine (centre) and then Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (right) during the G20 summit in Toronto, Canada in 2010
FORMER Labour foreign secretary Jack Straw has dished out a “humanitarian award” to the wife of Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a ceremony in London.
Tony and Cherie Blair were also keynote speakers at the World Humanitarian Forum, a two-day event ending today that critics say was “designed to whitewash Turkey’s war crimes.”
Rosa Gilbert from the Kurdistan Solidarity Campaign (KSC) told the Morning Star: “It is a huge insult to see Jack Straw — complicit in extraordinary rendition and torture, not to mention the disastrous war on Iraq — lecture us on ‘humanitarianism’ while handing awards to a Turkish regime that has aided and abetted jihadists in Syria and used their Nato membership to wage a dirty, murderous war on Kurds both in Syria and Turkey.”
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