Maybe he was thinking that as the incoming Nat Security advisor, the new adminstration needed to rework the arrangements obama and the CIA had forged giving Turkey free rein on its Kurdish problem in exchange for being the conduit through which the USG supported ISIS and al Qaeda attacks in Syria, including delivery of CW
Maybe Gen Flynn was using his military experience to try to structure a new strategic relationship with Turkey for a post-Assad Syria and a defeated ISIS in the region
Or maybe the Trump team was trying to work through the blowback of the failed coup in Turkey supported by the Clintons and their Gulenistas, the coup that led to closer ties between Turkey and Russia including Turkish threats against the US airbases there
Just maybe
But getting paid by a foreign government to lobby the U.S. government while working for a political candidate presents a blatant conflict of interest in a matter like this.
Interestingly, this whole debacle relates to a comment I made back in late 2016 right here on FreeRepublic that is so relevant I'm tempted to go back and search for it. At the time, there was a story floating around about some of the challenges the Trump transition team was having in getting appointees lined up for cabinet posts because Trump was requiring all of them to sign an agreement that precluded them from working as a lobbyist for five years after they leave the Trump administration.
At the time, I said something to this effect: "That's great, but I'd insist on disqualifying any candidate for these cabinet posts who served as a lobbyist within the LAST five years, too."