Flake has a sad.
Posted on 04/03/2023 9:12:22 AM PDT by elpadre
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his doors are closed for US ambassador to Ankara Jeff Flake following the diplomat's meeting with Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the presidential candidate for the opposition alliance.
"What is (US President Joe) Biden's envoy doing? He goes and meets with Mr. Kemal. Shame on you, use your brain," Erdogan was quoted as saying by Turkey's Star newspaper on Sunday amid growing tension between Washington and Ankara.
"You are an ambassador. Your interlocutor here is the president. How will you ask for a meeting with the president after this," Erdogan asserted, adding that his doors were now closed for the American envoy to "let him know his limits".
Presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey are scheduled for May 14. Kilicdaroglu, nominated as the presidential candidate for the country's six opposition parties, is seen as the incumbent president's main challenger.
Muharrem İnce and Sinan Ogan are two other contenders in the presidential race. However, the main competition is expected to be a head-to-head race between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu.
The previous presidential election in Turkey was held in June 2018.
In early March, Ankara summoned Flake over top US general Mark Milley's visit to northeast Syria, as reported by the country's state-run news agency.
In February, Turkish interior minister Suleyman Soylu slammed the US envoy after Washington warned Ankara about the export of chemicals, microchips and other products to Russia.
"Take your dirty hands off of Turkey. I’m being very clear. I very well know how you would like to create strife in Turkey. Take your grinning face off from Turkey," Soylu was quoted as saying at the time.
“Every US ambassador who arrives in Turkey is hurrying to find out how to make a coup possible in Turkey”.
Turkey stands in the way of NATO expansion and endless wars.
Thinking Turkey is getting this one right.
Though I certainly do not support the neocons anymore, I fully expect that Turkey will become part of the Ezekiel 38 attempted invasion of Israel.
Time will tell and for others, YMMV.
LOL agreed
Heads up to Turkey: keep your eyes peeled for Victoria Nuland and her bunch. If they show up, you know a coup is coming.
Flake being Ambassador is proof that job only goes to loyal deep state lackeys and that the US State Department is completely corrupted.
The ambassador involving himself with local politics is a diplomatic no-no. Since the West really needs to have some influence with Turkey regarding the Ukrainian situation, Flake should be recalled immediately and replaced with someone who has a brain. Even if the US wants the opposition to win this was a stupid, stupid move.
Another Biden foreign policy disaster on the world stage.....................
Get our Nukes out NOW!
Yeah, it's almost like they're not a modern North Atlantic country, or something.
Flake has never been anything other than a duplicitous stooge and McCain wannabe.
Who to root for?
Both Turkey and Hungary are giving the Biden admin the hand today.
Does every country in the world hate us now. Professional foreign policy expert Joe Turnip has done a bang up job.
There's a good reason the Brits never accepted Benedict Arnold. A traitor to one is a traitor to all.
We have become “The Great Satan”, and not just to the Iranians anymore.
Is that picture from when the two wiseass “latinas” attacked him in the elevator and scared the pee out of him?
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