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Prolonged Instability Will Hurt Anti-Isis Battle
"The danger here is this could spiral out of control and turn into a full-blown civil war," Mr Eric Edelman, a former US ambassador to Turkey and former leading Pentagon official under president George W. Bush, said on Friday.
U.S.-Turkey Tension Over Cleric Explodes After Coup
Eric Edelman, who served as U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 2003 to 2005, told me that when he served at the embassy, he never heard from Erdogan's government any complaints about Gulen's status as an asylum seeker in the U.S. "In those days they were thick as thieves," he said.
Pentagon: New Rounds For Old Guns Could Change Missile Defense for Navy, Army
“Capabilities in development would enable larger caliber guns to launch HVPs at air and missile threats over medium ranges (10–30 nautical miles),” read a May report on air and missiles from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA).
Marines’ F-35B Preps for Air Wars During Major Combat Exercise
The F-35B’s participation in Red Flag is a major step forward for the program, said Jesse Sloman, an analyst for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments think tank in Washington.
Failed Turkey Coup Deepens Conundrum of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Power
And it could be much worse than that. As Erdoğan fought to regain himself, Eric S. Edelman, a former American ambassador to Turkey and former leading Pentagon official under President George W. Bush, cautioned: "The danger here is this could spiral out of control and turn into a full-blown civil war."
Did Obama get Erdogan wrong?
“We basically have turned a blind eye to Erdogan’s drive towards an authoritarian, one-man system of rule in Turkey,” said Eric Edelman, a U.S. ambassador to Ankara from 2003 to 2005 and a deputy secretary of defense under George W. Bush. “The president has acknowledged it, but we haven’t really done much about it, if anything.” That needs to change, Edelman said. “If there’s anything we’ve learned from the last six years in that part of the world, it’s that one-man rule isn’t very stable.”