About That Phone Call to Erdogan …

Published April 20, 2017 11:48am ET



Social media seethed with outrage earlier this week after the American president made a phone call to congratulate the head of a NATO member on an important vote. On Monday Donald Trump reached out to speak with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the referendum that exchanges Turkey’s parliamentary system for one granting broad executive powers to the president. The “yes” camp carried the day with a slim 51 percent of the vote.

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