President Trump’s national security advisor has made “astonishing, baseless and unacceptable” allegations about Turkish support for terrorism, according to Turkey’s top diplomat.
White House National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster identified Turkey as a key source of funding for “extremist ideologies” around the world, a rebuke that angered the Turkish government. It’s the latest incident in the deterioration of the U.S. relationship with Turkey, a NATO ally led by the increasingly-authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“The allegations made by Mr. McMaster, who is best placed to judge Turkey’s ceaseless combat against terrorism and radicalism in all its forms and manifestations, are astonishing, baseless and unacceptable,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
McMaster didn’t blame the Turkish government directly, but he suggested Turkish sources have financed groups around the world, from the Balkans to western Africa and southeast Asia.
“We didn’t pay enough attention to how extremist ideologies were being advanced through madrassas and mosques, and so-called charities more broadly,” he said, per Voice of America.
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Turkey blasts HR McMaster for his "astonishing, baseless and unacceptable" terrorism allegations https://t.co/MivMYmA6AX pic.twitter.com/ns6gFIUGt9
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