MESOP NEWS TODAYS BEST QUOTATION : BY SULTAN RECEP TAYYIP

 

“The problem is the United States itself.” That was Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, speaking about a diplomatic dispute with Washington that led to the suspension of new nonimmigrant visas. [The New York Times]
• Meanwhile, a court in southeastern Turkey sentenced a Wall Street Journal reporter in absentia on terrorism charges to more than two years in prison. [The New York Times]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-us-visas.html?emc=edit_mbe_20171011&nl=morning-briefing-europe&nlid=73143833&te=1