France blasts ‘extremely aggressive’ Turkish intervention against NATO mission targeting Libyan arms
france24.com/en/20200617-france-blasts-extrem...Posted Jun 17, 2020, 5:44 PM UTC
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Why is it that me, as a French guy, I didn't even hear about it ? Oh yeah I remember, because medias prefer speaking of blm rally and covid 19 again and again as if nothing else happened
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I mean also, the actual event happened weeks ago and is only being acknowledged now.
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Happened on 10th of june, not "weeks ago"
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I'm reading directly from the article:
"The disclosure of the incident, which occurred a few weeks ago, came as NATO defence ministers held talks via video conference on Wednesday."
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Why? Don't they blame Russia for the escalation in Libya?
Isn't that enough?
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I mean, if they do, they don't bother speaking about it in the medias, I wasn't even aware of it before seeing your comment / reading the article for the turkish/france clash.
But why are they not speaking about it ? Because covid freakout & BLM protests brings more money in their pockets in terms of viewers/audience
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I had a little bit of irony. Because I see about the events in Libya in the Western news. At least here on Reddit.
But of the external participants in the conflict, as a rule, only Russia is mentioned.
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Nah, I think that's mostly because you're not paying attention.
Paper:
https://www.lejdd.fr/International/otan-la-france-veut-mettre-la-turquie-au-pied-du-mur-3975611
Radio:
https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/geopolitique/geopolitique-18-juin-2020
TV:
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You're right, I actually didn't pay very close attention to reading those websites, or watching France 24. I withdraw my earlier statement, but could still consider I'm looking the mainstream news reports (France 2, France 3) which didn't speak of it. I didn't dig further because I'm not used to watching France 24, or reading news online (In french, at least).
So I guess France 2 isn't interested in actual geopolitic news, when it's supposed to be the main news media.
Mea culpa.
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 83%. (I'm a bot)
France's defence ministry on Wednesday denounced an "Extremely aggressive" intervention by Turkish frigates against a French navy vessel participating in a NATO mission in the Mediterranean.
"We cannot accept that an ally behaves this way, that it does this against a NATO ship, under NATO command, carrying out a NATO mission."
Turkish construction companies had secured a large share of the Libyan market, but the projects were abandoned with the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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France is butthurt their team is losing lol