Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
‘IT’S TOO PAINFUL’
CONFUSION REIGNS
“I’m not prepared to put a timeline on it,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said.
DIRECT APPEALS
A letter went out to all members on Thursday, urging them to help intervene in an increasingly dire situation.
MOST WANTED
The NBA player opens up to Robert Silverman about the death threats he receives daily for speaking out against Turkish leader Erdoğan and his beef with Hedo Türkoğlu.
MISSILE MAVEN
Patrick Shanahan’s corporate allies have thrived under Trump. Now he’s going to be Secretary of Defense.
REBEL YELL
He’s been branded a “terrorist” in his homeland and his father is awaiting trial on trumped-up charges, but the Turkish New York Knicks’ center refuses to keep quiet.
WE SPOKE. THE END.
Japan. China. Even Canada! The White House only hurts itself with sparse summaries of the president’s phone conversations with foreign leaders—and lets them set the narrative.
Populist Setback
Geert Wilders doesn’t just want to ban travel from Muslim-majority nations, he wants to ban the Quran itself. But Dutch voters just handed him a defeat.