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Intel: Key Democrat presses Pompeo on Trump’s alleged interference in Turkish bank probe

The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today grilling him on a series of allegations raised in former national security adviser John Bolton’s new book, including the allegation that President Donald Trump sought to end the Justice Department’s charges against Turkey’s state-run Halkbank.
In this photograph taken on December 10, 2019, pedestrians pass in front of state run Halkbank on Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul. - At a half-built metro stop on the outskirts of Istanbul, the diggers have been idle for months, dozens of workers waiting day after day with nothing to do. The new 550-million-euro metro line, started in 2016, was due to connect outlying suburbs in the Asian side to the ferries and sealines in the centre of the city, but has been stalled as the municipality struggles to raise fund

The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today grilling him on a series of allegations raised in former national security adviser John Bolton’s new book, including the allegation that President Donald Trump sought to end the Justice Department’s charges against Turkey’s state-run Halkbank.

“Mr. Bolton also recounts [President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s] efforts to influence US law enforcement actions against a Turkish firm accused of the largest violation of Iran sanctions in US history, which President Trump reportedly said he would take care of,” wrote Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.

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