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TURKEY HAS CHANGED the name of the street on which the new US embassy will be located to Malcolm X Street, after the American black Muslim civil rights campaigner.
The new American embassy is still being built-in Cukurambar district in Ankara on what was formerly called 1478 street. Construction contractors BL Harbert have said the new complex is expected to be finished by 2020.
The renaming comes after the Ankara city council decision last month to change the name to Malcolm X Street.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised the late campaigner’s daughters that the name of Malcolm X would “live on” in the Turkish capital.
Municipality workers changed the signs of the street on this morning, and AFP correspondent said, as frenetic activity continued on the site.
Malcolm X, one of the most influential African-Americans in history, was an outspoken Muslim advocate of the rights of blacks and remains a hero today to many blacks and followers of Islam.
Turkey has made similar changes to streets on which embassies are located in a bid to make a political point against a country.
When Washington expressed concern over Turkey’s offensive in northern Syria against a US-backed Kurdish militia, Ankara in February renamed the road Olive Branch (Zeytin Dali in Turkish) on which the current US embassy is located after the name of the offensive.
In January, following a spat with the United Arab Emirates over the Ottoman Empire’s actions in Medina, Ankara renamed the street where the UAE embassy is after the Ottoman governor of the time.
Outside of Turkey, Iran most notably renamed the street on which the British embassy sits in Tehran to Bobby Sands Street, after the Provisional IRA hunger striker.
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No mention in the article of the false and misleading information provided by Inmarsat, the British satellite company charged with providing evidence re the flights disappearance. Why did this private company provide false information? Very interesting.
No mention in the article of Boeings refusal to comment on the fly from the ground system believed to be installed on the aircraft which allowed the aircraft to be flown from a computer on the ground and the inherent security problems with the system as outlined in many reports.
No mention of the powerful military radar at Diego Garcia which would have picked up the airplane and would know where exactly the craft is.
Stinks of a cover up.
Is that you Frank?
Ah no. Along the lines of BLowe and Horgay.
What about the air traffic recordings of MH17 that still haven’t been released? .The details given of MH370 and MH17 are not what they seem.
The details were given out a long time ago regarding MH17. The entire recordings have not been released which is standard procedure in an ongoing investigation.
Maybe the plane is in the volcano?
Breaking news ,,they found volcano’s and mountains! Who comes up with these headlines ?
Looks more and more like pilot suicide unfortunately. Just did not want to be found.
Begins turn in ATC in no man’s land where he was handed off and just did not contact the next ATC.
Flies inch perfect along the Thai to the island of penang and does a hooking turn around the island that would mean taking a long last look at the island where the pilot grew up. Then turns and heads south to watery grave.
How was he not stopped?? Well Co pilot could have gone to toilet and got locked out. Post 9/11 it’s not easy to get inside. Then he would also have the knowledge to go into avionics bay and start pulling out circuits for transponder. The bay is under cockpit and it’s just pull up trap door.
This is what happened but of course they can’t confirm this till they find it
Charles. Wreckage? Bodies?
Why would their be?? Sure it was weeks before they even began to consider the possibilities. Wreckage becomes waterlogged and goes down. Bodies sink too. You rise up about 7 day mark due to gases but when you sink first and you go 5000 feet down all gasses are pushed out of body. Your not coming back up.
Other thing was as he had flown it that far and being meticulous he probably tried to land it on water. This would also serve to stop alot of debris so he and the people he would murder would rest together never found.
Sad but that’s what happened
Probably the most bizzare event of 2014.
That and the trickle down water fiasco!
They’ve found underwater volcanos and cliffs and ridges mining companies must be wetting themselves.
Freescale semiconductor cloaking technology on board. ?
I remember flying back from honeymoon in florida at night and suffering turbulence over the Atlantic, kept thinking about that air France plane that disappeared, there were a few irish people on that plane that flight and I was terrified watching the computer screen that it could be me crashing into the dark ocean to a watery grave,I vowed never to fly again and I never have,I was never a great flyer anyway but that sealed it for me,I’ll never set foot on a plane again
9 red thumbs,must be a lot of Ryanair staff on the journal this morning
Flying is actually the safest way of travelling
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