[Daily Caller] Last month, Donald Trump’s top military adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, met with two Turkish community leaders in New York City who have close ties to Turkish government agents, The Daily Caller has found.
Flynn, who served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency between 2012 and 2014, met on Oct. 10 with Ibrahim Kurtulus and Hilal Mutlu, two operatives who are prominent players in a shadowy network of Turkish organizations that support the agenda of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Kurtulus and Mutlu, who is a cousin of Erdogan’s, are tied to groups that either receive funding from the Turkish government or have close connections to Erdogan and officials in his regime, a Daily Caller investigation reveals.
The revelation of the meeting comes on the heels of a report published by TheDC last week which found that a businessman who is the director of an economic board controlled by Turkey’s government recently used a Dutch shell company to hire Flynn’s consulting firm, Flynn Intel Group, to lobby Congress.
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