تحظى سلسلة بحيرات بركانية بين الجبال الشاهقة الواقعة بين ولايتي "طرابزون" و"بايبورت" شمال شرقي تركيا، بإقبال سياحي كبير من جانب الأجانب والزائرين المحليين.
منذ ظهور الدول أو التجمعات السكانية البدائية اضطر ملوك الدول وزعماء القبائل والعشائر إلى استخدام قوة الدين كوسيلة لزيادة السيطرة والسطوة على الشعوب المحكومة مهما كان دينهم أو مذهبهم ومعتقدهم.
Wednesday will be the 100th day without an on-camera White House press briefing. Up until now, the longest stretch without a briefing lasted 42 days. So this is really the worst kind of record.
I'm beating this drum because the cancellation of the briefing has both symbolic and practical consequences. Practical because questions aren't being answered. Symbolic because Trump and his aides are shutting out the press and giving permission for government agencies to do the same.
"The rhetoric does real long-term damage"
VF's Joe Pompeo spoke with numerous W.H. reporters about Sarah Sanders' exit and the speculation about who will succeed her. Many reporters say it just doesn't matter. "She didn't have the kind of power press secretaries used to have," Pompeo wrote Tuesday.
He quoted one of his sources saying "a lot of people would like to see the briefing back," but this matters more: "I think less public hostility overall is most important. The rhetoric does real long-term damage to our credibility."
Here's the newest example...
More of the same
I was going to lead this edition of the newsletter with Trump's 2020 re-launch rally in Orlando, but it really wasn't newsworthy. Even Sean Hannity didn't seem to believe it when he said "you are witnessing history in the making."
Reporters were struck by just how repetitive the kickoff rally was. CNN's Betsy Klein quipped on Twitter, "I was promised new material." Instead, it was a repeat of 2016. "When Hillary Clinton runs in 2020, Trump is totally ready for her," WaPo's Karen Tumulty remarked.
The NYT's Michael Barbarocalled it an "exceedingly dark start to re-elect kickoff. Lock her up. CNN sucks. Fake news. Hoax. Etc." Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) tweeted that it was a "hate rally." But the rallygoers and the viewers on Fox felt love, not hate. I think that dissonance is key to understanding the American divide we're all living through.
Here's what happened in Orlando
Trump began the re-launch event by touting the economy. Both Fox and CNN took the beginning of his speech live. But after five minutes it was clear that Trump didn't have anything new to say. A "CNN sucks" chant broke out in the arena. And Trump said "by the way, that is a LOT of fake news back there."
Fox carried the whole thing live while CNN shifted to analysis. MSNBC never dipped into the event at all.
I thought Jeffrey Toobin's analysis on "AC360" was on point: "Remember, he WON the last election! All this, like, 'Oh, isn't it terrible that he's attacking the press?' He won by attacking the press! He won by being Donald Trump! He won by attacking immigrants! The idea that Donald Trump should listen to some speechwriter rather than his own political instincts seems crazy to me. This is who he is, this is how he won, and, like, why should he change?"
Pro-Trump commentator Rick Santorum put this way: On the campaign trail Trump "will talk about how he took on the establishment," and "the media is part of the elite establishment."
Cuomo's Q
"There's probably 20,000 people at this rally for this president tonight -- and that is bigger than Democrats are getting so far to be sure," Chris Cuomosaid on CNN Tuesday night. "But is the size of the rally suggestive of the 60 million plus needed to win the next presidential election?"
--> Maeve Reston added on "CNN Tonight:" Nobody in the Democratic party "has that kind of rock star quality that you see with Donald Trump..."
"Concentration camps"
Over on MSNBC, Chris Hayes called Tuesday's event a "pretend relaunch." And he addressed the day's biggest Twitterverse controversy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's remarks about the detention facilities on the southern border being "concentration camps."
Was Hayes' show the source of this eruption? That's my educated guess. On June 6 he interviewed Andrea Pitzer, the author of "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps," and she described how the current border camps fit into history. The segment hit a nerve -- the book was suddenly sold out on Amazon.
Fast forward to Monday evening, when AOC said during an Instagram Live chat that the US "is running concentration camps on our southern border."
Republican lawmakers and Fox News anchors were outraged. Fox fans, in general, were disgusted while MSNBC fans knew exactly what Ocasio-Cortez meant. Our American divide in action. Hayes brought Pitzer back on his show Tuesday night... And she said, "For 40 years before Auschwitz, we had concentration camps -- things that were called concentration camps -- what we're doing now fits very cleanly inside that tradition." She said "death camps" including Auschwitz "were ON TOP OF the existing concentration camp system," and "that is a singular moment in history."
But the "concentration" definition, as expressed by Hayes, is "detention of some subgroup in some camp setting where things start to go awry."
Shanahan withdraws amid media scrutiny
On Monday, Yahoo's Hunter Walkerforeshadowed what was about to happen: With Trump's acting secretary of defense Patrick Shanahan's confirmation "on hold, press reports have questioned his relationship with the president, and the Pentagon has been fielding press queries about his personal life, including a messy divorce that involved an accusation of domestic violence from his ex-wife, who was arrested as part of the dispute."
Then came USA Today's story on Tuesday morning: "FBI examining 2010 domestic fight involving acting defense secretary Shanahan; accounts differ on aggressor."
And then WaPo dropped this story, literally one minute before Trump tweeted: "As Trump's defense pick withdraws, he addresses violent domestic incidents."
Defense One exec editor Kevin Baron tweeted: "Shanahan invited Washington Post reporters into his apartment days before withdrawing to discuss his personal history on the record. After months of ducking cameras and public accountability on matters of war and national security."
April Ryan's question
With Netflix's "When They See Us" still reverberating, April Ryan asked Trump if he would apologize for his actions surrounding the Central Park Five case during a gaggle on Tuesday afternoon. Trump instead asked why the topic was relevant. "Why do you bring that question up now? It's an interesting time to bring it up," he said, seemingly unaware of the Netflix miniseries.
He went on to say, "You have people on both sides of that. They admitted their guilt." As CNN's story noted, "the five teenagers who were accused of raping a jogger were pressured into giving false confessions. They were later exonerated when DNA evidence linked another person to the crime..."
Why Trump on Telemundo is significant
Trump is calling into Hannity's show on Wednesday. PLUS: NBC and Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz-Balart has landed an interview with Trump. Telemundo is calling it "Trump's first sit-down interview with a Spanish-language TV network during his presidency." It will air Thursday night...
--> David Fahrenthold tweeted: "I'll be fascinated to see if they ask about @realDonaldTrump's employment of undocumented workers..." FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE
-- Hope Hicks is slated to testify to the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, but... (CNN)
-- Aaron Gell, a former editor of the New York Observer, is out with a new essay about what it was like to work with Jared Kushner... (Medium)
-- "Katharine Gorka, a political appointee at DHS who has stirred controversy for her views on terrorism and her role in the department's efforts to combat violent extremism in the US, is expected to be the new press secretary at Customs and Border Protection," Geneva Sandsreports. Gorka's husband Sebastian Gorka attacks the media on a daily basis... (CNN)
-- "A former Republican operative notorious for his connections to white nationalists has established himself as an opinion contributor for several national publications, including the Wall Street Journal, while writing under a thinly veiled pen name... " (BuzzFeed News)
18 questions for 21 candidates
On Wednesday the NYT is coming out with a video series featuring the 2020 Dems. Joe Biden declined the paper's invitation to participate, but the rest of the field did...
On Tuesday's "Late Show," Stephen Colbert played a clip of Bret Baier reporting on Fox's latest poll showing Biden leading Trump. "Ouch, Fox News! You pledged to be there for him, for better or worse," Colbert said, "You keep this up, he's going to leave you for a younger network!" IN MEDIA BIZ NEWS...
CBS preparing its offer for Viacom...
Benjamin Mullin and Keach Hagey's Tuesday afternoon report:CBS is "preparing to make an offer for sister media company Viacom in the coming weeks, following a meeting of CBS directors last week in which a potential deal was discussed, according to people familiar with the situation. Representatives of CBS and Viacom have already had preliminary discussions about the outlines of a deal, one of the people said."
BUT: "A deal is far from certain. Determining the price for a stock transaction -- which requires setting a value for the companies relative to each other -- is one major hurdle." Read on... FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO
-- "Former Hearst CEO Frank Bennack is working on a memoir" for Simon & Schuster. It'll be out in October... (AP)
-- Never a good sign for a defendant: Harvey Weinstein's defense attorney Jose Baez "doesn't want to represent him anymore and has filed to withdraw from the sexual assault case, according to a source." This is "the first time in his career he's asked to withdraw from a case," Jean Casarez reports... (CNN)
-- Congrats to this year's Murrow Award winners. CBS won 8 between TV and radio... ABC won 4, including overall excellence... CNN won 3... NBC won 2... (RTDNA) FIRST LOOK
Variety's Power of Pride cover
Here's the cover of Variety's inaugural Power of Pride issue -- featuring Don Lemon, Asia Kate Dillon, Billy Eichner, Hannah Gadsby, Jim Parsons, and MJ Rodriguez. The feature will be on Variety.com on Wednesday...
Judge sanctions Alex Jones in Sandy Hook case
Oliver Darcy emails: Alex Jones did not have a good day in court. A Connecticut judge on Tuesday sanctioned Jones for suggesting that a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families tried to frame him with child porn. The ruling came after the attorneys representing the Sandy Hook families asked the judge to review footage of Jones lambasting one of the attorneys on Friday.
After reviewing the footage of Jones, the judge called his behavior "indefensible," "unconscionable," and "possibly criminal." The judge said she would sanction Jones by denying his defense team the opportunity to file motions to dismiss the case from moving forward. It's a big blow to Jones. More details here…
>> Related: At a court hearing, a proposed date of November 2020 for the Sandy Hook trial was settled on by both the plaintiffs and the defense, and agreed to by the judge…
…Meanwhile, Sandy Hook denier book pulled from shelves
Darcy adds: Sandy Hook families had another reason to celebrate on Tuesday. Lenny Pozner, whose son died in the 2012 shooting, won a defamation lawsuit against the authors of a book which claimed the massacre did not occur. As a result, the book, "Nobody Died at Sandy Hook," will be pulled from bookstores. The amount in damages owed to Pozner will be determined at a later date... FOR THE RECORD, PART THREE
-- Michael Tackett is joining The AP as deputy Washington bureau chief...
-- This is D.D. Guttenplan's first week as editor of The Nation... He is namingJeet Heer national-affairs correspondent and Jane McAlevey "strikes correspondent, filing from the front lines of the labor movement..."
-- Christine Schmidt's latest is on TikTok: "How The Washington Post, NBC News, and The Dallas Morning News are using the of-the-moment platform..." (NiemanLab)
-- "In a first, only one TV outlet — MSNBC — will be allowed to deliver live coverage of Saturday's South Carolina Democratic Convention where 21 presidential candidates are expected to speak, drawing heated complaints from other networks..." (Washington Examiner)
Michael Savage swipes at right-wing media personalities who view Trump as "demigod"
Oliver Darcy emails: Far-right radio host Michael Savage, who was one of Trump's strongest backers early on, told NYT's Jeremy Peters that he has grown disillusioned with the president. In his view, Trump hasn't fulfilled some of the key promises that got him elected, like the construction of a wall on the southern border.
Savage said, "To too many people he's not a human being, he's a demigod." Savage then specifically zoned in on some of his peers in right-wing media, saying, "It's embarrassing to listen to some of these people." Savage added rhetorically, "I'm going to get up every morning and do nothing but say how great he is?" Read the full story here… QUOTE OF THE DAY
THR's Jeremy Barr asked, "How do you decide how important and history-making news developments are these days?" MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell answered:
"It begins for me as a writer as just a really difficult writing challenge, which is, 'How many ways are there to say unprecedented?' and 'How many times can you say unprecedented?' and 'When does unprecedented lose its meaning in repetition? Or does it?' This is kind of a societal experiment that we're all in and a language experiment, and we don't really know the answers."
"Jeopardy" ratings joy
The final #'s are in for James Holzhauer's final day on "Jeopardy." Per Vulture's Joe Adalian, the episode "was seen by a massive same-day audience of 14.5 million viewers on June 3, making it the most-watched episode of the show since November 30, 2004, when (still) reigning money champ Ken Jennings drew 18 million viewers for his swan song. Measuring only same-day viewers, Holzhauer's losing episode stands as the third most-watched regularly scheduled series episode of the 2018–19 television season, behind only the series finale of The Big Bang Theory (18.5 million viewers) and a December episode of 60 Minutes (14.6 million)."
Writers v. agents update
Brian Lowry emails: The Association of Talent Agents issued a statement on Tuesday saying, basically, that it's frustrated with the lack of action in talks with the Writers Guild of America, accusing the guild's leadership of meeting its attempts to establish a dialogue and negotiate "with demands for capitulation rather than negotiation." The agencies said they would "pursue a course that defends and protects our employees," while maintaining writers' ability to choose their representation. The WGA said it will respond to the ATA's latest proposal this week...
"Biggest opening weekend ever for a Netflix Film"
Brian Lowry emails: Netflix is at it again, cherrypicking its data with claims about the big audience for specific projects (while steadfastly avoiding others). The latest: "Murder Mystery," the Adam Sandler-Jennifer Aniston comedy, which the company says was watched by 30.9 million accounts worldwide in its first three days -- "the biggest opening weekend ever for a Netflix Film." The term "opening weekend" is a bit loaded, inasmuch as it couches something that approximates TV measurement in movie box-office terms, which has as much to do with courting talent as anything else...
Netflix's high-class Emmy prize problem
Megan Thomas emails: THR's Scott Feinberg took a look at what Netflix can do to beat HBO and avoid canceling out its contenders at the Emmys.
Key graf: "This Emmy season, Netflix has the best sort of problem a TV platform can have: It has so many high-caliber and popular shows, it boasts one serious contender in nearly every category and, in some categories, so many that they could end up boxing out one another. This is the result of Netflix's multibillion-dollar investment in original content — it planned 700 original shows for 2018 — as it strives to fortify itself against the progression of existing competitors (like Amazon and Hulu) and rise of new ones (Disney+ and Apple)." FOR THE RECORD, PART FOUR
By Frank Pallotta:
-- Is Netflix to blame for the decline of comedies at the box office? (THR)
-- The much anticipated "Game of Thrones" prequel has begun filming... (Entertainment Weekly)
-- Hulu CEO Randy Freer says "investment in original programming will increase significantly" over the next few years. But when Julia Boorstin asked for a $$$ amount, he declined to say... (CNBC)
Universal Music boss says 'We owe our artists transparency'
LAT's Randy Lewis writes: Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge, "the chairman of the world's largest music conglomerate," sent out a memo on Tuesday and "instructed all who work for him to be transparent with musicians who contact the company to find out whether their recordings were among those destroyed in a 2008 fire reported to have consumed as many as 500,000 recordings."
"We owe our artists transparency," Grainge wrote.
This is a response to the NYT Mag's recent investigation into the devastating fire "on the backlot of the NBCUniversal Studios in Hollywood." More... FOR THE RECORD, PART FIVE
President Trump formally kicked off his 2020 re-election bid at a rally with thousands of supporters in Florida. While incumbent presidents normally win re-election, his low approval rating, just 40% in the most recent Gallup poll, could hold him back. No president re-elected since 1952 had less than 48% approval. Since taking office, Trump has never exceeded 46%.
More:
"If you go into an election with more than 50% disapproval, it's very hard to win re-election. Trump is just stuck, and well below 50%," said Emory University political science professor Alan Abramowitz.
Headlines from around the world
Patrick Shanahan withdrew from consideration to take over as Defense Secretary over reports of a domestic abuse incident.
Boris Johnson took an even bigger lead in the race to replace Theresa May, as the field was narrowed to five candidates.
Carrie Lam apologized for the Hong Kong extradition bill that set off massive protests, indicating it's unlikely to be revived.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended her tweets that migrants on the southern border are detained in conditions akin to "concentration camps."
Philip Arps, a New Zealand man who shared a video of the Christchurch mosque attacks, was sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Ditching fossil fuels. Nearly half the world's electricity will come from solar and wind energy by 2050, with hydro, nuclear and other renewable energy resources providing another 21%.
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In February, the White House explored whether it could legally demote Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. This was right around the time President Donald Trump was making unprecedented statements about firing him. It isn't clear what the administration concluded, but Fed spokeswoman Michelle Smith said in an email: "Under the law, a Federal Reserve Board chair can only be removed for cause." —Josh Petri
Here are today's top stories
Patrick Shanahanwithdrew from consideration to be Trump's Secretary of Defense after reports of domestic abuse surfaced.
The next U.K. prime minister, whoever it is, has probably already lost Scotland, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.
Trump kicks off his 2020 re-election campaign with a prime-time speech Tuesday. He has a problem, though: Most voters say they don't like him.
Apple, Google and Facebook are raiding animal research labs, poaching neuroscientists so they can help advance artificial intelligence.
The new Bloomberg Businessweek B-school rankings are out. Here's how 10,000-plus MBA students grade their schools.
What's Joe Weisenthal thinking about? The Bloomberg news director is closely watching the Facebook-led launch of a new cryptocurrency called Libra. In one sense, this is incredibly huge news, Joe says: One of the biggest companies in the world wants to create a new global currency. In another sense, it's not. Unlike most cryptocurrencies, Libra will be backed by traditional financial assets in traditional financial institutions with "investment-grade credit ratings."
Boston's Seaport District used to be little more than parking lots and warehouses. Then the city began recruiting startups and big corporations to what it dubbed a new "Innovation District." Offices, luxury condos, museums and some of the city's hippest restaurants sprouted. The timing, however, seems poor, and the construction a function of pure hubris. The harbor already floods a dozen times each year.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is sympathetic to concerns about the environment and the need to transition to cleaner sources of energy, but says that in order to fund that transition, Canada needs to take advantage of its natural resources while they are still needed.
Cpl. Patrick Labrie died late Monday while involved in a U.S.-led international airborne field training exercise in Bulgaria, Canadian Forces Sub-Lt. Pamela Bussiere told HuffPost Canada.
The motion passed 186-63, backed by Liberal, NDP, Bloc Québécois, and Green Party MPs. Conservatives voted against the motion, along with People’s Party Leader Maxime Bernier who, like many MPs, only showed up for the vote.
Popularized by an American president, the term “fake news” has gone mainstream as a lazy, inflammatory catchphrase tossed by desperate actors trying to sow distrust.
In this episode, three MPs from different parties sit down with “Follow-Up” host Althia Raj to talk about how they’re processing partisan disinformation in the information age.
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The Trans Mountain Pipeline project will increase the flow of crude oil from the Alberta tar sands to Canada's Pacific coast to be shipped to markets overseas. The project has pitted Canada's oil industry and those who rely on it against environmentalists and some indigenous communities. Trudeau faced a Tuesday deadline to announce a decision.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline project will increase the flow of crude oil from the Alberta tar sands to Canada's Pacific coast to be shipped to markets overseas. The project has pitted Canada's oil industry and those who rely on it against environmentalists and some indigenous communities. Trudeau faced a Tuesday deadline to announce a decision.
NEWS ALERT: Girls file federal discrimination complaint after transgender track wins
Three Connecticut girls who participate on high school track teams have filed a federal discrimination complaint against a statewide policy on transgender athletes, saying it ...
Three Connecticut girls who participate on high school track teams have filed a federal discrimination complaint against a statewide policy on transgender athletes, saying it has cost them top finishes in competitions and possibly college scholarships.
Imagine a school where, every year, the final exams keep getting easier, to the point where the professors give you all the multiple-choice answers and do away with essay questions.
This basically describes the "stress tests" the Federal Reserve gives America's most important banks every year, the latest results of which are due later this week. As usual, almost every bank will be declared above average, meaning they are sufficiently capitalized to shovel more money out to shareholders. But don't let this fool you into thinking the financial system is ready for another crisis, warns Bloomberg's editorial board: The stress tests keep getting less stressful, and the Fed's new head of bank supervision, Randal Quarles, wants to make them easier still. This is the opposite of what you want to do when times are relatively good and it's easier and cheaper to prepare for the bad times.
The stress test was a great tool for stopping the panic back in 2009 because it used the real crisis to show exactly how much capital banks needed from the government, notes Mark Whitehouse. As non-crisis confidence-builders, such tests are much less useful. Even if they weren't being weakened, it's still hard to effectively model bank losses in a crisis, and it's easy for banks to work the refs to ease standards, as they have done for years now. A far simpler solution for everybody, Mark writes, would be to simply set capital levels much higher to begin with.
Recession Watch
And bank capital isn't just an academic discussion these days: Several market indicators, from metals to trucking, point toward a recession, writes John Authers. The stock market rallied a bazillion points today because President Donald Trump said he planned to meet with China's Xi Jinping at the G-20, raising hopes for an end to the trade war. But such hopes have been dashed many times before. And these recession signals aren't just due to China trade tensions, John suggests. Gary Shilling, who has presciently called for falling interest rates even when others have expected them to rise, says 10-year Treasury yields are headed toward – gulp – 1%, or less than half where they are today. As far as he's concerned, we're in the early days of a recession and just don't know it yet.
Meet the New Energy, (Almost the) Same as the Old Energy
Green is the new black these days, with wind and solar energy growing more quickly around the world than climate-wrecking fossil fuels. The trouble is, though, that fossil-fuel energy is still growing awfully quickly too, notes Liam Denning, citing BloombergNEF's latest report on energy's near-term future. Blame inertia: Renewables are cheap and getting cheaper, but the world's existing coal- and natural-gas-fired plants are pretty cheap too. Unless we raise those costs – carbon tax, anyone? – we're defeating the purpose of clean energy.
On a brighter note, "green bonds" and other forms of environmentally friendly financing have surged in a big way this year and now seem to be an entrenched part of the debt market, writes Brian Chappatta. That will keep offering new incentives for clean-energy projects to replace the old, dirty ones.
Facebook, the Money
As we mentioned yesterday, Facebook Inc. is launching its own currency, "Libra," with hopes of someday becoming a most-favored Internet financing option. The overwhelming response so far has been, more or less:
And there's a lot regulators should worry about here, as Lionel Laurent wrote yesterday; French officials already are. Then again, the threat is still in the far-distant future; Facebook will need many more partners, particularly in banking and retail, to get Libra off the ground, writes Alex Webb. And Facebook's latest currency is no more likely to succeed than its other one (remember Credits?), or any of the many other cashless payment options already out there, Lionel Laurent writes in a second column today. Facebook's lofty ambitions seem unreachable without more buy-in from regulators – and even rivals.
Further Libra Reading: If Libra succeeds, it will bend regulation to its reality. – Matt Levine
Telltale Charts
Are the "opportunity zones" created by the 2017 tax bill actually helping poor areas? The jury is out, and may forever be hung, writes Justin Fox. This isn't the first time this neoliberal experiment has been tried, and its results have always been impossible to measure.
Further Reading
Boeing Co.'s big 737 Max order from British Airways is a reputational lift, but the plane maker has done little to deserve it. – Brooke Sutherland
Deutsche Bank's CEO must quickly lay out a roadmap to profitability. – Elisa Martinuzzi
President Donald Trump said acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan will not move forward with the confirmation process so that he can "devote more time to his family."
He also said in a tweet that Mark Esper, the secretary of the Army, will become acting Defense secretary.
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As Israel prepares to host an unprecedented trilateral meeting with U.S. and Russian officials to discuss Syria and other regional issues, the Assad regime faces proliferating challenges in the northwest and may not be able to recover large portions of the territory it lost. What are U.S. interests in Syria today, and will the Jerusalem meeting advance them in any substantial way? Can Russia and Assad be relied upon to push Iran out of the country? And how much has Damascus been able to reestablish control? To discuss these issues, The Washington Institute is pleased to host a Policy Forum with Ambassadors Michel Duclos and Robert Ford. Ambassador Ford will participate via video teleconference; Washington Institute fellow Hanin Ghaddar will moderate the event.
Michel Duclos is a career French diplomat who has served as ambassador to Syria (2006-2009). He currently works as a special advisor to the Paris-based think tank Institut Montaigne and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington. He will discuss his latest book La longue nuit syrienne, in which he describes the war's root causes from the personal perspective of a diplomat on the ground.
Robert Ford is a senior fellow at both the Middle East Institute and Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. He retired from the U.S. foreign service after serving as ambassador to Syria from 2011 to 2014.
TURKEY AND RUSSIA ARE NOT FRIENDS, DESPITE APPEARANCES by Soner Cagaptay and Andy Taylor
The Hill June 16, 2019
The truth is that Ankara feels threatened by Moscow, but security concerns, mistrust of the West, and an inability to secure American missiles left Erdogan searching for an alternative.
The 70-year-old alliance between the United States and Turkey is heading for its most turbulent period in decades. Congress voted this past week on legislation to punish Ankara for its planned acquisition of the Russian-made S-400 missile system and what lawmakers perceive as Turkish coziness towards Russia. Washington is preparing to curtail defense cooperation with Ankara and sanction Turkey. However, these actions will inadvertently deepen Ankara’s ties with Moscow...
Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. Andy Taylor worked in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2010 to 2019, covering Turkish issues on the Foreign Affairs Committee staff.
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President Trump said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping had agreed to meet at the Group of 20 summit in Japan next week, a major development amid the ongoing trade war between two of the world's largest economies. Chinese officials have not yet confirmed the meeting would occur.
President Trump said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping had agreed to meet at the Group of 20 summit in Japan next week, a major development amid the ongoing trade war between two of the world's largest economies.
Chinese officials have not yet confirmed the meeting would occur.
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