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Ex-US senator Jeff Flake begins post as ambassador to Turkey
The Associated Press ^ | January 26, 2022

Posted on 01/26/2022 8:53:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake formally stepped into his new position as U.S. ambassador to Turkey on Wednesday, after presenting his credentials to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Flake is a former Republican lawmaker who endorsed U.S. President Joe Biden’s 2020 run for the White House. He served in the U.S. Senate from Arizona from 2013 to 2019 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013.

Flake retired from the Senate at the end of his term in 2019, saying he was out of step with the Republican Party in the era of former President Donald Trump. He later wrote a book, “Conscience of a Conservative,” that was a critique of Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; erdogan; flake; jeffflake; kurdistan; receptayyiperdogan; turkey; turkishlobby
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1 posted on 01/26/2022 8:53:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What, Ukraine wasn’t available.


2 posted on 01/26/2022 8:53:52 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A Turkey goes to Turkey to represent the US, you couldn’t make this up if you tried!!


3 posted on 01/26/2022 8:54:34 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good place for him. One turkey to another..................


4 posted on 01/26/2022 8:54:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thanks from the Democrats for a job well done.


5 posted on 01/26/2022 8:55:21 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Perfect.


6 posted on 01/26/2022 8:56:00 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Gwarden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As evil as the Turkish Islamic regime is,
I didn’t wish anything as bad as this on them!

USA could have gotten him out of the country by appointing him ambassador to Uranus and simply giving him a one-way ticket on Musk’s next launch.


7 posted on 01/26/2022 8:56:03 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They sent that turkey to the right place. At least he won’t have to worry about “wise latinas” confronting him in elevators.


8 posted on 01/26/2022 8:57:13 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well this is promising. Maybe he’ll get to do lunch with Amb. Stevens...


9 posted on 01/26/2022 8:58:02 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
saying he was out of step with the Republican Party in the era of former President Donald Trump

the problem is that the whole Republican Party is out of step with the Republican Party in the era of Trump. None of these RINOs are facing up to reality or what they need to be doing about.

10 posted on 01/26/2022 8:59:10 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is why RINOs are worse than Democrats.

RINOs are the enemy within who pretend to be loyal to the GOP.

This year's primaries and those in 2024 are our last chances to save the Republican party by voting out these traitors.

11 posted on 01/26/2022 8:59:23 AM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A lot of people believe that the worst Republican is always better than the best Democrat. Politicians like Jeff Flake are proof that that theory is wrong.


12 posted on 01/26/2022 9:01:06 AM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fake’s finances need to be fully investigated when MAGA takes the House in November. Anything that can be construed as illegal needs to be used to that this piece of shit out. It is not a time to be nice. It is a time to fight and win.


13 posted on 01/26/2022 9:01:42 AM PST by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Flake is a FLAKE....AND a FAKE Republican!!!!


14 posted on 01/26/2022 9:06:09 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

You have to laugh at the use of the diplomatic corps as a form of patronage for otherwise unemployed politicians. The former Mayor of Milwaukee is now the US Ambassador to the very important nation of Luxembourg. That was Joe Biden’s way of moving out the last White Mayor of Milwaukee and making way for the first in an endless string of black Mayors, and all that will bring to Brew City.


15 posted on 01/26/2022 9:06:15 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stevens re-do. Hilary can’t wait to kill people.


16 posted on 01/26/2022 9:08:17 AM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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To: ConservativeInPA

He’s there for the money, for sure.


17 posted on 01/26/2022 9:08:19 AM PST by jean michael
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a nice payoff for that idiot.


18 posted on 01/26/2022 9:09:01 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Worthless XXXXX!!!


19 posted on 01/26/2022 9:09:27 AM PST by ontap
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Better there than here I suppose.


20 posted on 01/26/2022 9:14:48 AM PST by left that other site (A Man Without Self-Control is like a City Broken Into and Left Without Walls (Proverbs 25:28))
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