Secure Freedom Minute: Don’t Reward Turkey for Being an Ally No More

Team USA lost to Turkey yesterday in the World Cup. Fortunately, it will nonetheless be able to advance in the competition.

Another loss to Turkey is in prospect – one that may not have a happy outcome. President Trump says he may bring a “big gift” to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the host of NATO’s upcoming summit in Ankara. He reportedly has in mind selling the Turks America’s front-line stealth fighter, the F-35.                                                    

Transferring such technology to a nation run by a sharia-supremacist regime deeply tied to Communist China is a formula for compromising sensitive technology and intelligence capabilities.

It’s all the more alarming given Mr. Trump’s disclosure that Turkey was a “prime candidate to go into the war with Iran – maybe on the Iran side.”

The truth is Turkey is an ally no more, and must be treated accordingly.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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