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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Dec 7

    A personal annoucement: After 4 years in Washington, I will start to work as Turkey Correspondent for beginning on January 1. Hope will strike back with numerous scoops on Turkey

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  2. 4 hours ago

    “He was in the catbird seat; he had prosecutors who thought he was truthful, prosecutors who thought he provided substantial assistance, and prosecutors who had recommended no jail,” said James Walden, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice.

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  3. 6 hours ago

    If you talk about Syria because you are just looking for another reason to assault Trump, you are a terrible person. You didn’t care about the country of millions of refugees, horrible tortures, pogroms, hundreds of thousands of killed civilians, and chemical attacks

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  4. 8 hours ago

    This isn’t the first time Erdoğan had convinced Trump to withdraw troops from Syria. Erdoğan and Trump had a phone call on March 30. Three days later, on April 3, Trump for the first time publicly said he wanted US troops to immediately come home.

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  5. 8 hours ago

    Had the decision makers taken Turkey’s offer of unlimited support for Raqqa operation last year; there wouldn’t have been this mess now they are complaining about. You would have Turkey against Iran in Raqqa and Deirezzour. YPG crisis with Turkey wouldn’t have been there

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    13 hours ago

    Michael Flynn’s business associate Ekim Alptekin, indicted in Virginia in probe of Flynn's lobbying on behalf of Turkey, denies engaging in illegal activity, says he is committed to improving US-Turkish relations & blames Gulen movement for poisoning ties (tiny thread)

    Hukuka aykırı hiçbir eylemde bulunmadım. ABD savcıları Fetullahçı teröristler kendi ülkelerinde elini kolunu sallayarak gezerken, onlarla mücadele edenleri 35 yıl hapisle yargılıyor. 17 aralıkta açıklanan iddianameyi Zekeriya Öz'e yazdırsalardı bu kadar olurdu. Tarih affetmeyecek
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  7. 13 hours ago

    There are Turkey’s wins: • Effectively allowing Turkey to pull the strings in NE Syria. Can bomb, invade any time it wants • End of close US mil support to PKK/YPG, therefore opening a way for Turkey to restart talks with Kurds • Ceding US area of influence partly to Ankara

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  8. 13 hours ago

    Trump’s Syria decision isn’t an outright win for Turkey: • Turkish military is prepared a full scale invasion of majority Kurdish cities along the border? • What happens if Assad/Iran moves in those areas? • If Turkey invades, who would run these areas? FSA, Roj-Pesh?

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  9. 13 hours ago

    Not disturbing actually since Trump, it appears, had struck a deal with Erdogan in a phone call on Friday. And that covered pulling out of troops from Syria as well

    A contact who works on projects in N/E and who recently met with officials tells me the Turks were bragging that knew about 's decision on U.S. forces before the Pentagon and State Department did. That's...disturbing.
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  10. 14 hours ago

    ABD, Suriye’den bir günde çekilecek değil. Ama karar alınmış. Olay bitmiş. Öküz öldü artık sizlere ömür

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    15 hours ago

    So many seem concerned about the fate of U.S. proxies on the ground, i.e. PKK's Syrian branch. American support gave them political legitimacy while hurting relations with a NATO ally. Pullout from might help clarify US policy goals & repair relations w/ .

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  12. 15 hours ago

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    MAGA: Make Ankara Great Again
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  13. 15 hours ago

    I can attest that so far whatever Erdogan said about his phone calls with Trump has been proven to be true.

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  14. 15 hours ago

    Here is the full Reuters quote: The decision came after a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on Friday. “Everything that has followed is implementing the agreement that was made in that call,” the official said.

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  15. 15 hours ago

    BREAKING — US official tells Reuters that US acting on the decisions taken by Trump during his call with Turkish President Erdogan, regarding the decision to withdraw the US troops from Syria

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  16. 16 hours ago

    Must read thread on Syria

    Thread: There was a meeting about 5 days ago between & during which the latter tried to extort support vs in return for them continuing their ops. According to the source, the Americans…
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  17. 16 hours ago

    BREAKING — All US troops to withdraw from Syria in 60-100 days, US official to Reuters

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  18. 16 hours ago

    Syria: • Erdogan issues threats against YPG in Syria • Trump calls Erdogan on Friday • Trump makes decision to withdraw US troops early this week • White House announces that US soldiers returning home • US State Dep evacuates its staff in Syria within 24 hours

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  19. 16 hours ago

    BREAKING — US State Dep to withdraw its staff from Syria in 24 hours, US officials to Reuters

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  20. 17 hours ago

    People tend to forget that in April, Trump has given his National Security Staff to finish ISIS off in 6 months and withdraw the troops. And then Erdogan’s call came in

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  21. 17 hours ago

    BREAKING — It is official, White House Spox says US has started returning American troops home from Syria

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