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Behind Trump’s Dealings With Turkey: Sons-in-Law Married to Power

The Times examines the relationship between Jared Kurshner and Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s Kushner.

Also Mehmet Ali Yalcindag, Ivanka’s business partner on Trump Towers Istanbul

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One gem from the article:

All Turkey watchers know the phrase “deep state” emerged there decades before Trump brought it from the fringed to the mainstream here.

Per this story, Erdogan cultivated his use of the phrase.
The Times article relates how Erdogan appointed Yalcindag—the Trump Towers Istanbul partner—to head the business group that held the conference in Trump’s D.C. hotel.

That business group was TAIK, & its lobbyist was a Trump transition team member.

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How I know that I’m back in New York:

The MTA is still rotten and dysfunctional. Back to Washington as the week begins.
It’s a beautiful city all the same.
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Quite often, reporting touches upon the biographies of these witnesses in passing, if at all, in the breezy form of a CV.

It doesn’t do justice to the world-historical scope of their life stories, escaping persecution by the Nazis and the Soviets to find succor in free society.
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Chilling moment from Yovanovich's testimony, as she recalls learning that Trump called her "bad news" in a phone call with Zelensky.

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Eric Lipton
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THREAD: Let's take a look through words/pictures at the unusual ties between 3 powerful sons in law who are helping shape US Turkey relations. We start with Trump Towers Istanbul. That's then Prime Minister Erdogan cutting the ribbon in 2012. Also pictured is Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ
Yalçındağ moves from the point person on this TRUMP family real estate project to becoming a key intermediary between Turkey & the United States, after Trump is elected president. Here he is with Commerce Sec Wilbur Ross recently
Jared Kushner was there for the 2012 launch of Trump Istanbul. Once Trump is president, he begins to handle key meetings with counterparts in Turkey, like this. That is President Erdogan of Turkey, and his son-in-law, Berak Albayrak from Feb. 2019.
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Behind Trump’s Dealings With Turkey: Sons-in-Law Married to Power nyti.ms/32DQzdR "Mr. Erdogan’s advisers say he has cultivated Mr. Trump by emphasizing their shared struggles against such entrenched forces within their governments." [The so-called "deep state.")
If you'd shown me this article ten years ago, when I lived in Turkey, I would have said it didn't even work as satire; the person who wrote it obviously just didn't understand America.
It's just incredible. A president of the United States who does this, speaks like this, thinks like this.
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#Turkey had revealed to #Iranian intelligence of a network of #Israeli spies working in #Iran, including ten #Kurds who met #Mossad members in Turkey. Look where it got the Kurds now that #DeepState agenda of regime change in #Syria has been defeated.
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Trump’s sanctions against Turkey result largely from Erdogan’s purchase of #S400 from #Russia. Interestingly #India too signed a deal worth $5.4 billion with Russia for S-400 in 2015. If US decide to sanction India, Reliance Defense may be destroyed. greatgameindia.com/the-s400-deal-…
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Trump’s sanctions against #Turkey result largely from Erdogan’s purchase of #S400 from #Russia. Interestingly #India too signed a deal worth $5.4 billion with Russia for S-400 in 2015. If US decide to sanction India, Reliance Defense may be destroyed. greatgameindia.com/the-s400-deal-…
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