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The Grand Turk
Arrested US consulate worker in Turkey meets lawyer
2017-10-14
That's one of our two people, but even so it is just a formality on the way to what the Turks intend to be a preordained conclusion.
[Ynet] A US consulate worker detained by Ottoman Turkish authorities last week saw his lawyer on Friday.

"We had the necessary meeting with my client," lawyer Halit Akalp told Ottoman Turkish television channels as he left a jail complex at Silivri, west of Istanbul. "There were no restrictions on our meeting."

Metin Topuz was enjugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
over alleged links to the network of US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, accused by Ankara of orchestrating last year's coup attempt. His arrest sparked a dispute between the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
allies and suspension of visa services.
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