Can Jeff Flake, the next US envoy to Ankara, help ease Turkey-US tensions?
The US Senate has confirmed Jeff Flake, a former member of the upper chamber, as Washington’s next ambassador to Turkey, an important NATO ally.
“Our national interest is served when the United States and Turkey work together to confront the very real threats to global peace and security that emanate from Russia, Iran, and elsewhere in the wider region,” Flake told US senators during his confirmation hearings last month. Eventually, the US embassy in Turkey issued a statement saying that Washington will abide by article 41 of the Vienna Convention, which regulates that foreign envoys can not interfere with the host’s country’s domestic politics. After that, tensions appear to ease between the US and Turkey.
The US support to the YPG, the Syrian wing of the terrorist PKK group, has angered Turkey much, leading to tensions between the two NATO allies. Flake, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or commonly known as Mormons, worked as a missionary in South Africa and Zimbabwe when he was a young man in the 1980s.
Both Flake and Romney have opposed Trump’s politics, alienating themselves from most of their Republican colleagues. Flake was a member of the Liberty Caucus, a Libertarian-leaning group that defends non-interventionism in foreign policy.
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