Cheminade: Turkey Must Be Expelled from NATO, or France Should Quit
The president of France’s Solidarité et Progrès party Jacques Cheminade, a longtime friend of Lyndon LaRouche’s, told Sputnik that France must not stay in the NATO alliance if Turkey is allowed to remain, after Ankara’s unapologetic shootdown of a Russian bomber over Syria, where the Russians have been engaged in the fight against ISIS at the invitation of the Syrian President.
Here is an excerpt of the English-language dispatch from Sputnik, posted Friday, and headlined “France Should Leave NATO if Turkey Preserves Its Membership in the Alliance after the Downing of a Russian Su-24 Aircraft.”.
“Either France should leave NATO at this stage, or to demand suspension or exclusion of Turkey [from the alliance members] as part of NATO,” Jacques Cheminade said.
On Tuesday, the Su-24 bomber crashed in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the plane was downed by an air-to-air missile launched by a Turkish F-16 jet over Syrian territory, falling 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the Turkish border. Putin described the Turkish attack as a “stab in the back” carried out by “accomplices of terrorists.”
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