Yesterday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that he is expelling 10 ambassadors for signing a request that he release George Soros operative, Osman Kavala, from prison. He said he ordered his Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to “immediately handle the persona non grata declaration.” The ten are: U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield (who is expected to be replaced shortly by President Biden’s nominee, Jeff Flake), as well as the ambassadors of Canada, France, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden. They issued a statement on Oct. 18 citing the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling against holding Kavala after four years without a conclusive trial.
Kavala is identified as a businessman and philanthropist. On Oct. 22, Mark Malloch-Brown, president of Soros’s Open Society Foundations, denounced Erdogan’s identification of Kavala as “Soros scum,” and urged the Turkish government to release him. The foundation is noted for promoting “color revolutions'’ to topple governments in the name of democracy. It and other Soros-funded operations are also noted for promoting the legalization of “recreational” drugs including the mind-damaging, but generally non-fatal, cannabis, as well as the wildly deadly natural and artificial opioids, and the mentally disabling hallucinogens. Erdogan has supported the Afghani Taliban movement’s determination to eradicate the 80% of the world’s opium supply that was being produced there under the U.S./NATO occupation. This difference between Soros and Erdogan has not been raised in connection with the Kavala case, but, as the Schiller Institute and other policy leaders have pointed out, the global drug problem that Soros supports is of concern to the entire civilized world.