Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss Turkey’s drone program and drone proliferation. Turkey has developed surveillance and armed drones that are being used to target the Kurdish insurgents. Turkey is flying drones over its own citizens and has killed over 400 within Turkey. Will and Kyle talk about the significance of a government using drones on its own civilians. Will explains the dangers of drone proliferation. China, Israel, and Iran have also developed and sold advanced drones.
Will and Kyle also update Julian Assange’s health and efforts by activists to prevent Saudi ships from receiving weapons.
Will Porter is a staff writer at RT. He has bylines at Antiwar.com, Consortium News, and The Libertarian Insitute.
Links
- The Intercept – The Second Drone Age
- Assange’s Health
- Jonathan Cook on the rape allegations against Assange
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