MESOP NEWS TODAYS ON THE AGENDA : Today’s Insight & EXPERT COMMENTARY
U.S. and Turkey Diplomatic Relations Reach Crisis Point | Fritz Lodge, The Cipher Brief
Relations between Turkey and the United States have hit a new low point with tit-for-tat visa suspensions after the arrest of a U.S. embassy employee.
Turkey and U.S. Enter Most Important Crisis in Recent Memory | Soner Cagaptay, Director, Turkish Research Program, Washington Institute
“I think the U.S. response was building up. Washington had taken issue with the arrests of U.S. citizens, including dual citizens, in Turkey in the aftermath of the coup. Turkey was denying the United States legal access to U.S. citizens.”
Serious Consequences of Halt in Visas Between Ankara and DC | James Jeffrey, Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Iraq
“The problem is that the approach that Turkey under [President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan has taken, particularly in the post-coup investigation of networks connected to Fethullah Gulen, is to cast a wide net. This behavior is familiar to me from the 1980s and 1990s, pre-Erdogan Turkey. It’s basically that you’re guilty – or at least detainable – until proven innocent.”