‘Not Our Friends’: Erdogan Stokes Anti-US, Anti-NATO Fervor in Turkey

‘NATO finds itself in quite the predicament as one of its most important strategic partners continues to accuse the United States of aiding and sympathizing with Gulenists who attempted to overthrow the Erdogan government.
On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned West for refusing to show solidarity with Ankara in the wake of a failed attempt to overthrow the government saying that NATO ‘allies’ that are more concerned about the fate of coup supporters than the survival of Turkey are not friends of Ankara.
Erdogan blasted the West for criticizing the massive purge of Turkey’s military and other state institutions which has seen 60,000 people detained, removed or suspended over suspected links with the coup and for cancelling 50,000 civilian passports which many worry is but a prelude to an expansion of the reign of terror inside the country.’
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