Lobbying by any other name? (Turkey)

Ahwaz (Events) ^ | 2018-08-18 | Ilan Tahir

[Texas Fossil]

Looking at the Washington Post’s August 15 op-ed warning that “the U.S. can’t afford to lose Turkey,” a casual reader might glance at the writer’s bio to find sparkling credentials – a former U.S. diplomat with long years of experience working on Turkish policy at respected think tanks.

Yet among the crucial details that writer, former U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza, left off the bio was his employment by companies based in Turkey under the influence of the powerful ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

While this does not necessarily amount to a damning conflict of interest, Bryza’s article had Turkey-watchers questioning how much the Turkey-based ex-diplomat could get away with without publicly disclosing his private business affiliations.

Ignoring all discussion of the AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarianism, harsh curtailments of human rights and imprisonment of thousands of Turks, the op-ed read more like a piece written by a lobbyist advocating for the Turkish government’s interests and called to mind the efforts of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in November 2016, for which he was well compensated by a Turco-Dutch AKP-affiliated businessman.

[Texas Fossil]

I have long recognized that there are no journalists left in Turkey. (They are in jail, exiled, or dead) But this is revealing how that corruption connects to the US.

Turkey, AKP, ex-US ambassador, Washington (Com)Post?

This is a very well written Kemalist source (based outside Turkey) article with link to the Washington Post article that is discussed.

Foreign policy? Or global Fascism.

[Texas Fossil]

Autocorrect on cell phone sucks. Source is Ahval.

Link to WaPo article is

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/08/15/the-u-s-cant-afford-to-lose-turkey/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fb035057401d

[ptsal]

Has Matthew Bryza met the registration standards as a foreign lobbyist?

Remember those details are legal hurdles that tripped up Paul Manafort and Tony Podesta?

[ptsal]

The original article has a number of important observations about Matthew Bryza.

https://ahvalnewstr.com/us-turkey/lobbying-any-other-name

<>Condi Rice link
<>Career moves by Bryza at the State Dept.
<>Company affiliations
<>Country of residence

Time to drain the swamp.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Looking at the Washington Post’s August 15 op-ed warning that “the U.S. can’t afford to lose Turkey,”

"We can't afford to lose XYZ so let's send them pallets of cash". This has been the clarion call of every US appeaser with a financial or political interest in fostering the growth of other nations at our expense for decades now.

We lost Turkey when Erdogan took over - Trump's policies are making Erdogan pay a price for opposing the US, just as he is making China pay a price for it's trade policies, and just as he is making Iran pay a price for it's destabilization of neighboring nations. We finally, at long last, have a president who puts America ahead of the interests of establishment lobbyists working for foreign governments.

[Liz]

The man's a rank opportunist------there must be laws against this.

Has Matthew Bryza met the US registration standards as a foreign lobbyist...... legal hurdles that tripped up Paul Manafort and Tony Podesta?

.... among the crucial details former U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan, Matthew Bryza, left off the bio was his
employment by companies based in Turkey under the influence of Turkey's powerful ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)....

[Texas Fossil]

Absolutely agree. Finally we have a President who “deals” with problems. Unlike the entrenched subversive self serving Deep State operatives.

[Texas Fossil]

Drain the Swamp, BUMP!

[Texas Fossil]

Yes