Jake Daystar

Retired Foreign Area Officer

[Soner Cagaptay @SonerCagaptay]

From using “Constantinople”, and not today’s Istanbul, for the Ottoman capital to absence of any references to modern Turkey, a carefully crafted, victim-focused, and forward-looking document that avoids finger pointing at the Republic of Turkey

[Emre Peker @EPspin]

As anticipated, #Turkey-US tensions will simmer but not explode until after leaders’ meeting at NATO summit sidelines. Bear in mind Biden called after giving Erdogan the cold-shoulder because tomorrow he is expected to recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians as a genocide.

[Jake Daystar @baileydaystar]

First week on the job....

[Gönül Tol @gonultol]

Sanctions include a ban on all U.S export licences to defence procurement agency and asset freeze and visa restrictions on the head of the agency, Ismail Demir and three other employees.