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With Erdogan’s phone pal Trump out, Turkey worries about Biden – Digital Journal

By ::· News, Turkey, United States ::· November 10, 2020

With Joe Biden, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will probably be unable to influence US policy with a simple phone call, as he had occasionally done with Donald Trump. But that does not mean the US president-elect will push Turkey away, instead hoping to re-engage the geographically strategic and militarily powerful NATO ally on tougher …

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Turkey Criticizes Ex-Trump Aide Bolton for ‘Manipulative’ Memoir

By ::· News, Official Lies, Propaganda, Turkey, United States ::· October 12, 2020

Turkey accused former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton of misrepresenting President Donald Trump’s conversations with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his recently published memoir. The book “includes misleading, one-sided and manipulative presentations of our leader President Erdogan’s conversations with the US President Donald Trump,” Erdogan’s communications director Fahrettin Altun said in a Twitter …

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U.N. says Libya arms embargo a ‘joke’, demands accountability – Reuters

By ::· Conflicts - Fronts, Europe, News, Turkey, United States ::· October 12, 2020

“The arms embargo has become a joke, we all really need to step up here,” U.N. Deputy Special Representative to Libya Stephanie Williams said after a meeting of foreign ministers to follow up on a Berlin summit last month that agreed to uphold the embargo. Fighting has continued despite a call for a truce. “It’s …

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