Well, considering that appartently what was being played on CNN in Turkey, there must have been quite an uprising with the population complaining they wanted nothing to do with this deal.
This was days before the vote, I took note because he used the name of CNN and American press calling Turkey blackermailers and he was trying to say something.
Who knows what all was going on and if the State Dept. was the actual source since CNN has a Clinton base on site.
Yes. He said specifically CNN and the American press.
There was a thread this weekend about members of the Turkish Parliament(?) passing around political cartoons from our press. Apparently, these cartoons reiterated what CNN had said re: blackmailers. To say they were not flattering towards Turkey would be an understatement.
He seemed, to me anyway, to know that the vote would be tight, and was trying to explain why it would be. Also, he may have been trying to get CNN and the press to back off. Can't say that I blame him.