White House Security adviser H.R. McMaster identified Turkey as a key source of funding for “extremist ideologies” around the world on Tuesday, a rebuke that annoyed 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 announced on Wednesday.
McMaster didn’t blame the Turkish government directly, but he suggested Turkish sources have financed groups around the globe, from the Balkans to western Africa and southeast Asia.
His complaint came one day before Erdogan hosted Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas for a summit condemning Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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