With all eyeballs split between Trump in Hanoi and Michael Cohen, Jared Kushner’s Middle East Tour has gone unnoticed. The president’s son-in-law met with Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who is not in a pro-American mood. Erdogan thought he had secured a complete U.S. withdrawal from Syria, but no, administration hawks have succeeded to keep a...
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Report: Turkey’s MIT Enabled ISIS Militants to Enter Syria
Turkey’s autocratic president Recep Erdogan has a two track mind. Erdogan proclaims he is fighting (Kurdish) terrorism and while his government empowers ISIS to advance his geopolitical agenda. New details emerge in this detailed (but uncorroborated) report in The Investigative Journal. Citing wiretap evidence collected in investigation of the 2015 Ankara train station bombing, author...
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NBA Star Enes Kanter Dunks on Erdogan
In a column for the Washington Post, Enes Kanter, star player for the New York Knicks basketball team, continued his criticism of Turkey’s president Recep Erdogan. Kanter’s teammates will be playing at NBA game in London this week. Kanter won’t accompany them, as he fears for his life I wouldn’t travel this week to Britain,...
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NBA Star Has Reason to Fear Turkey’s Intelligence Service
Enes Kanter, a six foot eleven star basketball player for the New York Knicks, won’t play an NBA game in London later this month because he fears the Turkish government may attempt to kill him. The Turkish native, a critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will not accompany his team to face the Washington Wizards...
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After Turkish Spy Chief’s ‘Very Unusual’ Visit, Two Flynn Associates Are Indicted
When Turkey’s intelligence chief Hakan Fidan visited Washington earlier this month, reportedly to brief Congress on the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he came with another agenda: pressing the Trump administration to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish national whom Turkey accuses of masterminding an attempted coup in July 2016. Today, Istanbul got Washington’s answer. The Justice...