Dissident Turkish investigative reporter Abdullah Bozkurt, who resides in Stockholm, Sweden, has exposed Turkey’s multilayered and expanding operations within the United States in an article published in the Nordic Monitor titled “Turkey ramps up covert and overt influence operations in Washington.”
Here is how Bozkurt summarized his findings: “Turkey has significantly expanded its lobbying and influence operations in the United States, building a solid and increasingly sophisticated
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Lobbying for national interests is perfectly normal, and the USA is the premier country, having lobbyists there is very logical.
It is also important to remember that Turkey has been supporting, financing, and arming jihadists for at least three decades; including in the First and Second Artsakh Wars against Armenians, in the Syrian Civil War against Assad (brutal though he was), and Hamas against Israel (despite the former claiming to be “freedom fighters”, both have been equally brutal towards the Palestinians).
Turkey’s aggressive and imperialist neo-Ottoman foreign policy clashes with U.S. foreign policy interests in the Middle East and North Africa, and collaborates with U.S. adversaries. However, the U.S., including Trump, has been surprisingly tolerant towards Turkey’s many provocations, which is getting away with it with impunity. Will this ever cause a rupture in U.S.-Turkey relations one day, and will the latter suffer the consequences? I certainly hope so. Turkey has been getting away with its crimes for far too long. The same applies to its little brother Azerbaijan.