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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s antipathy for the West has boiled over again. He is back to hurling furious insults at various European countries — mainly Germany, the principal target of his current fury.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/turkey-europe-rally-ban-sparks-new-crisis.html

Flynn lobbied for Turkish government, documents reveal

Former US national security adviser was paid $530,000 for work that 'benefited the Republic of Turkey'
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/michael-flynn-lobbied-turkish-government-2021030388

Questions surround Turkish businessman at center of Flynn controversy

Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s short-lived former national security adviser whose contacts with Russia cost him his job, is embroiled in a fresh controversy after telling the Justice Department that his consulting firm, Flynn Intel Group, was hired by a Turkish businessman to do work that “could be construed to have principally benefitted the Republic of Turkey.”
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/flynn-trump-scandal-lobbying-turkey-alptekin.html

Turkey shuts down Mercy Corps' Syria aid program

Turkey continues to maintain its official silence over the decision made public March 7 to order Oregon-based Mercy Corps, one of the biggest humanitarian relief organizations delivering aid to Syria, to shutter its Turkish operations.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/turkey-syria-mercy-corps-ngo-humanitarian-ypg-kurds.html

What is happening in the Turkish military?

No one can question the centrality of civilian-military relations in Turkey’s political life. Early in the last century, a military republic assumed the legacy of a military empire. In the 93 years since, Turkey has experienced four military coups and three abortive attempts. For a third of that time, Turkey was under martial law, and until 2000, practically lived under military tutelage
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/turkey-is-military-high-command-really-disturbed.html