Re: Is Boris a closet fascist who’s come out?
Originally Posted by
shropshiregirl
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It's not collaboration if you are a turk at heart yourself. Boris cannot deny his turkish ancestry it seems.
Johnson's visit to*Turkey*on 25-27 September 2016 was somewhat tense due to his having won*Douglas Murray's poetry competition about the President of Turkey,*Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, four months earlier.[339]*When questioned by a journalist whether he would apologise for the poem, Johnson dismissed the matter as "trivia".[340]*Johnson pledged to help*Turkey join the EU*and expressed support for Erdogan's government.[341]*Johnson supported the*Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen*and refused to block UK arms sales to*Saudi Arabia,[342]*stating there was no clear evidence of breaches of international humanitarian law by Saudi Arabia in the war in*Yemen.[343]*In September 2016, human rights groups accused him of blocking the UN inquiry into Saudi war crimes in Yemen.[344]*Given the UK-Saudi alliance, in December, he attracted attention for commenting that the Saudis were akin to the Iranians in "puppeteering and playing*proxy wars" throughout the Middle East.[345][346][347]*May said his comments did not represent the government's view.[348]