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who felt bypassed by globalization. Similarly, the elitist secular parties that had ruled Turkey for most of the 20th century were swept aside by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, which appealed to a rising Islamist middle class. And in Venezuela, it took only a few years in power for Hugo Chav
sident Trump's national security adviser, did lucra- tive consulting work for a firm with ties to the government of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan before and immediately after the 2016 election. Among other things, Flynn wrote an op-ed that urged the American government to expel Fethullah Gal
of politi- cal mastery rather than neutral measurements of pub- lic preference. Putin's victories at the polls enable him to reject comparisons with Leonid Brezhnev and other doddering defensive Soviet-era leaders. Likewise, Hugo Chavez boasted that unlike the colonels and generals who ruled over South America
s University. "For six or seven months, Turkey tried its best to get Assad to change, and the allies waited for Turkey to deliver." Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week renewed his criticism of Syria and those countries that stand by as the bloodshed continues. "I am addressing the entire world, and coun
arliament. "I am also addressing international organizations, which cannot produce solutions to this crisis and which encourage its continuation." Erdogan suggested that humanitarian corridors be opened immediately to provide assistance to Syrians suffering because of the fighting. Turkey harbors an e
Russian nationalists that Russia is ruled by the Jews. There used to be murky circles in the Soviet Union of my childhood in which it was held that Leonid Brezhnev and his Politburo were Jews. Today's nationalists, monarchists and other "real Russians" like to point out that Putin's entourage includes people
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officially portrayed as a strong if mildly flawed leader rather than as the man responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people. In Turkey, Erdogan has decreed that high school students should study the de- funct Ottoman language, challenging a nearly century-old reform linked to Mustafa Kemal At
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Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019245 →ose who felt bypassed by globalization. Similarly, the elitist secular parties that had ruled Turkey for most of the 20th century were swept aside by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, which appealed to a rising Islamist middle class. And in Venezuela, it took only a few years in power for Hugo Chavez
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019273 →Entities connected to both Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Leonid Brezhnev

Barack Obama
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Bill Clinton
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United States
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Donald Trump
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George W. Bush
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Tehran
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Bashar al-Assad
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Hillary Clinton
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Vladimir Putin
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Lebanon
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Middle East
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Bloomberg L.P.
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Prince Andrew
PERSONLeon Black
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Samantha Power
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Hosni Mubarak
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Marc Rich
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George Mitchell
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Ankara
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Bahrain
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