Turkey’s state repression ignored at NATO summit
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"Here in Ankara, and in Turkey more broadly, this NATO summit is not taking place in a climate of freedom. We saw, in the two weeks leading up to this summit happening, authorities in Ankara arrested over 200 people in dawn raids," says Ruth Michaelson, a journalist based in Istanbul who is covering the NATO summit in Ankara. Trump announced on Tuesday at the summit that he would lift U.S. sanctions on Turkey and is considering selling the country F-35 fighter jets. Repression from the Turkish state against its residents has not been addressed during the summit by its members in general; instead, "something that we've been hearing throughout the summit is that Turkey has this indispensable place in NATO," says Michaelson.
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