Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unleashed a fresh barrage of salvoes against US Ambassador John Bass today, once again seeking to pin the blame for the ongoing crisis with Washington on its outgoing envoy.
In a fiery rehash of his favorite themes — that global and internal foes are seeking to besiege, weaken and dismember Turkey — Erdogan told a group of provincial governors in Ankara today, “Let me be very clear: The person who caused this is the ambassador here. It is unacceptable for the United States to sacrifice a strategic partner to an ambassador who does not know his place. We are not a tribal state.”
