No, Erdogan Should Never Again Step Foot in the White House

Secretary of State Antony Blinken knew he was entering a hornets nest when, last week, he stopped off in Ankara to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan has been a problematic partner at the best of times: He plays Washington and Moscow off each other for profit and sells Ukraine drones while helping Russia evade sanctions to fund its war effort. He instigated if not directed Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh’s indigenous Armenian Christian community and used the world’s distraction with the Israel-Hamas war to pulverize Kurdish civilian and economic infrastructure in Syria. Erdogan’s embrace of Hamas should surprise no one. He has openly backed the group for almost 20 years, supplied al Qaeda affiliates in Syria and Libya, and gave logistical support to the Islamic State.

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