At an event just before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July 2016, retired Gen. Mike Flynn tore into Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a speech about the dangers of radical Islam.
“There’s an ongoing coup going on in Turkey right now. … There’s a coup,” Flynn told the crowd. He explained that Turkey’s government “began to move towards Islamism. This is Turkey under Erdogan, who is actually very close to President Obama.”
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