Bolton: Turkey ‘moving away from NATO’

By Joel Gehrke

Published December 21, 2016 8:04pm ET

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A former U.S. diplomat warned that Turkey is a weakening link in the NATO alliance, citing that country’s participation in negotiations with Russia despite the exclusion of the United States.

“It’s a Turkey that’s moving away from the West, but also a Turkey that’s moving away from NATO,” John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told talk radio host Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday.

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