40,000 Turks protest Bush

[imax2268]

Can anyone remember in recent history a pResident like BushCo being protested as much...?


More than 40,000 Turks protest Bush visit
Associated Press

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Tens of thousands of Turks chanting anti-Bush slogans demonstrated against the president's visit to their country on Sunday and a NATO summit.

Bush is unpopular in Turkey, where the overwhelming majority of the public opposed the Iraq war. As the president arrived in Turkey Saturday, supporters of Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said they kidnapped three Turkish workers in Iraq, Arab TV station al-Jazeera reported. The group has threatened to behead the hostages, an al-Jazeera employee told The Associated Press.

The protest in the Kadikoy district, on the Asian side of Istanbul, attracted more than 40,000 people, mostly members of leftist groups, police said. There were some 100 foreign protesters from Greece, Britain, The Netherlands, Portugal and Syria.

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[leftyandproud]

1. they "threatened to behead the hostages"...

only if the turks DIDN'T protest.

It will be interesting to see if they follow through on the deal, or if they behead them anyway.

[neebob]

2. Of course it was mostly leftist groups

And those foreign protesters are probably Saddam loyalists.