Students Expel US Ambassador from Middle East University Campus!

Sendika.Org

US’s ambassador to Turkey, Ross Wilson went to Middle East Technical
University to deliver a speech Thursday.

The rector, Ural Akbulut greeted the ambassador, who was supposed to
address the students at the International Relationship Department at the
METU. The visit was not publicized and the press and other departments of
the university were not notified of the ambassador’s planned speech. Yet,
the Communist Party member students learned about the event and staged a
protest in front of the hall the US ambassador was supposed to make his
presentation.

The students in their chants, reminded the US ambassador of the January 6,
1969 event where the then US ambassador to Turkey Robert Kommer’s
limousine was torched by the students in the same university. Robert
Kommer had been a key player in the “pacification” program conducted by
the US in Viet Nam prior to his assignment to Turkey. US ambassador Robert
Kommer was responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of
Vietnamese before he became ambassador to Turkey.

The students reminded the fate of the previous US ambassador to the
present one, Wilson, by chanting, “Hey Yankee! Do you remember Kommer?”
They also chanted and carried banners reading, “Iraq’s resistance will
win!”, “Murderer Occupier, Get out!”

When the embassy officials warned the ambassador, walking towards the steps
of the building, he said, “Then we should leave right away!” and
immediately made his escape out of the campus.