Michael Flynn cheered coup attempt of Turkey - until he was paid to oppose it.
by Mark Sumner, Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/21/1602549/-Michael-Flynn-cheered-coup-attempt-in-Turkey-until-he-was-paid-to-oppose-it
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Its not just Donald Trump who is willing to sell out his policies. Hes hired an entire team of kleptocrats, including a National Security Adviser who was on both sides of an attempted coup in a NATO ally country.
When a faction of the Turkish military attempted to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn celebrated the coup effort as something worth clapping for.
He warned that Erdogan was an Islamist and very close to President [Barack] Obama, who was leading his country toward disaster. However, that was before Flynns company was hired by an Erdogan ally. After that, Flynn began singing a slightly different tune.
Turkey is really our strongest ally against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as well as a source of stability in the region. It provides badly needed cooperation with U.S. military operations. But the Obama administration is keeping Erdoğans government at arms length an unwise policy that threatens our long-standing alliance.
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