Epstein Secrets

are at loggerheads because of their fundamentally different positions on Syria. As developments in that country continue to unfold Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his overambitious foreign minister are discovering that Turkey cannot have it every way. Iran's displeasure with Turkey really began when Ankar

sure with Turkey really began when Ankara allowed the United States to deploy radar facilities on Turkish soil for NATO's "defense shield" project. Erdogan and Davutoglu still insist these facilities are not against Iran, but this is a claim no one, least of all Tehran, is buying. Matters between the

no national security meetings in his first 100 days of his presidency. In fact, Reagan had national security briefings every day and intermittent National Security Council meetings, Baker said. "I think it was misunderstood a little bit. What I said was that we focused, with laser-like efficiency, on the economy, beca

" the Crown Prince and his father, King Salman. Erdogan Breaks With Trump Over Israel Accords. The Washin

onexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/erdogan-breaks-with-trump-over-israel- deals-and-iran> (9/22, Gehrke, 448K) reports Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "accused Israel of abusing the Palestinian people and lashed President Trump and Persian Gulf nations as `collaborators' during his speech to the U

ations Secretary-General's Special Representative / former World Bank Group Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change Rachel Kyte; former National Security Council Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change John Morton; SAIS Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment Dr Jonas Nahm; and America

ports French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Sunday that France is recalling Ambassador to Turkey Herve Magro a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "sharply criticized French President Emmanuel Macron's response to the beheading of a teacher who had shown students pictures of the prophet Muhamm

-recep-tayyip-erdogan-france- 22e80135791736411816634f4bfl9a0e6> (10/25, Ganley) reports, "A day after saying that Macron needed his head examined, [Erdogan] said Sunday that the French leader has `lost his way.'" Bloomberg <https://www.bloomberg.corn/news/articles/2020-10-25/turkey-steps-up-criticism-af

tate Department could be in for more money and more clout over the next four years as it claws back power lost in recent decades to the Pentagon and National Security Council." The Times says Biden aides say a Biden Administration "would swiftly reverse President Trump's trademark transactional foreign policy, including

on landslide victories in local polls. Opposition parties criticized the move as anti-democratic, saying it was the latest evidence that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government is intent on marginalizing pro- Kurdish voices. The mayors — of Diyarbakir, Mardin and Van provinces — are members of the opposition Peop

ty, or HDP, a pro-Kurdish party. Between them, they won nearly a million votes in local elections held in March — easily defeating candidates from Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP. Erdogan has frequently accused the HDP of links to the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, w

and Budget since September although it had already won congressional approval and had overwhelming support from the Pentagon, State Department and National Security Council. The White House has yet to offer any explanation for the delay despite repeated queries from Congress." -- China is using DNA to map faces as Bei

ecognized Turkey's genocide of the Armenian people. From Axios: Graham was leaving the Oval Office after he joined a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan when a senior White House staff asked him to object on the floor to the resolution that had passed the House to avoid upsetting Erdogan. "Graham co

cep Tayyip Erdogan when a senior White House staff asked him to object on the floor to the resolution that had passed the House to avoid upsetting Erdogan. "Graham confirmed this in a phone interview on Saturday. ... A White House legislative affairs official told Graham that Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was

ent of the reasoning or legal justification ... Emails show Vought and OMB staffers arguing that withholding aid was legal, while officials at the National Security Council and State Department protested. OMB lawyers said that it was legal to withhold the aid, as long as they deemed it a 'temporary' hold ... "Mulvaney

is not hard for anyone to conclude that the AKP is openly displaying an ideological bias here. In the meantime no one has forgotten Prime Minister Erdogan's remark in connection with Sudan that "Muslims do not commit genocide." Put another way, there seems to be little difference in the way the U.S.

el. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton favors a broad-gauged address as soon as possible. Defense Secretary Bob Gates rails against Israel at every National Security Council meeting, arguing that Washington has given Israel everything it wanted and gotten nothing in return. Special Mideast envoy George Mitchell wisely