Davutoglu amanpour biography

  • CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST (voice-over): Today in Turkey, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu lays down his red lines for joining the fight.
  • Davutoğlu denied Amanpour's statement that the United States and Turkey's other allies advocated al-Assad staying in power during the transition.
  • Christiane Amanpour, in Istanbul, looks at thousands of years of history under assault in the Middle East.

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    CNN Int’l and CNN Türk: How they differ

    Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was on CNN International.

    Christiane Amanpour did not chew her words; she kept asking and asking.

    For instance, she forwarded this question:

    “[President Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan and the [Justice and Development Party] AKP inside and outside of Turkey... is being defined as autocratic, tyrant, polarizing, conflictual, paranoiac… What say you?”

    If such a question were asked in the Turkish branch of CNN…
     
    Abdurrahim Boynukalın, who had attacked daily Hürriyet’s premises, would have taken a big stone, went to the front of the CNN Türk building and would not have left a single window unbroken.

    But when the question comes from CNN International no one, including Abdurrahim Boynukalın, said a single word.

    Had such a question been forwarded by an anchorwoman at CNN Türk...

    Pro-government media would have asked for her to be fired, exiled from Turkey or even stoned to death.

    But when it came from Christian

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    Amanpour

    Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's First International Interview; Imagine a World

    Aired October 06, 2014 - 14:00   ET

    THIS fryst vatten A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL form eller gestalt AND MAY BE UPDATED.


    (MUSIC PLAYING)

    CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST (voice-over): Today in Turkey, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu lays down his red lines for joining the fight

    against ISIS.

    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

    AHMET DAVUTOGLU, utländsk MINISTER OF TURKEY: We want to have a no-fly zone. We want to have a safe haven on our borders.

    (END VIDEO CLIP)

    (MUSIC PLAYING)

    AMANPOUR: Hello, everyone, I'm Christiane Amanpour. Welcome to the schema from Istanbul.

    When long-time Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected president in August, he appointed his long-time utländsk minister, Ahmet Davutoglu as

    prime minister. And as the frontline city of Kobani just inre the Syrian border comes under increasing threat from

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    One of the saddest aspects of the Turkish government’s response to the Gezi Park protests has been its line that the demonstrations are all a part of a “foreign plot” to bring down Turkey. As with everything else, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan fired the starting pistol, singling out the phantom international “interest rate lobby” as being behind the unrest. Since then, leading government figures have been falling over themselves to slander the protests as part of a “foreign conspiracy” by forces “jealous of Turkey’s economic success.” Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan said “foreign circles” were trying to “undermine the country’s progress” through the protests: “This is totally an attempt to create a foreign hegemony on Turkey, but we are no fools.” EU Minister Egemen Bağış stated: “It is interesting to have such incidents in Turkey when … economic and development figures are at their best levels. The interest rate lobby and several financial institutions are disturbed by