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Trump announced on Tuesday at the NATO summit in Ankara that he would lift U.S. sanctions on Turkey and is considering selling the country F-35 fighter jets. Trump made the comment following a lavish state dinner hosted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom he praised as a "great leader." The mayor of Istanbul and other Turkish politicians, civil society figures and journalists remain jailed on politically motivated charges.
"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. "There has also been a protest ban enforced in Ankara, and that is a protest ban that extends even to leafleting."
Repression from the Turkish state has not been addressed during the summit; 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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The weapon has not been brought back to the UK and has instead been left with British officials in Turkey.
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President Trump said earlier that a cease-fire was over and warned that the United States would probably hit Iran "hard."
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It was a dramatic departure from Trump's more acerbic tone toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he once derided as ungrateful.
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The administration's report criticizing the National Museum of American History echoes themes of President Trump's push to reshape the American story.
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