Imagine another country drone striking us.
Imagine another country drone bombing your neighborhood, for a second. dvande / Shutterstock.com

No, this didn't actually happen. But if Turkey was an empire, like the United States, operating under a "global war on terror" framework, like the United States, it might be drone bombing Pennsylvania, or abducting one of our residents with secret agents and "rendering" him to a black site. Glenn Greenwald:

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan places the blame for this weekend’s failed coup attempt on an Islamic preacher and one-time ally, Fethullah Gulen (above), who now resides in Pennsylvania with a green card...

In light of the presence on U.S. soil of someone the Turkish government regards as a “terrorist” and a direct threat to its national security, would Turkey be justified in dispatching a weaponized drone over Pennsylvania to find and kill Gulen if the U.S. continues to refuse to turn him over, or sending covert operatives to kidnap him?

It's worth asking the question because this is exactly what the United States has done throughout the Middle East and Europe over the past fifteen years.