There is a ‘fear of government’ in Turkey, says İhsanoğlu
One of the questions asked to presidential candidate Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu during a press gathering in Istanbul on July 17 was his opinion about a statement by John Bass, the U.S. Ambassador-Designate to Ankara, after Bass was forced by Republican Senator John McCain to comment on Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan’s “drift towards authoritarianism.” In the meantime, the State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki had endorsed the stance of Bass, referring to her department’s annual human rights report.
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