It’s Time to Ban Turkish Air from U.S. Airspace by Michael Rubin

Food for thought! The Turkish government owns about 50% of Turkish Air!

Turkey is a NATO member, but Osman Sultan Erdogan has some odd ambitions!

Remember Cyprus?

"Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Turkey no longer will allow Israeli planes to overfly its airspace. Fidan, one of the top enablers of Hamas in Turkey, says President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took the action in solidarity with Gaza. Turkey’s action is now a frequent tool of its regime: It previously has banned both overflights of Armenian passenger planes heading from Europe to Yerevan and flights into Sulaymani, the seat of Iraqi Kurdistan’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, in protest of that group’s political alliance with Syrian Kurds fighting the Islamic State and opposing Turkey-backed Islamist extremists. ...

More than a decade ago, leaked tape recordings revealed a conversation between Erdoğan’s private office and Turkish Air arranging a shipment of Turkish arms to Islamist terrorists killing Christians and moderate Muslims in Nigeria.

This summer, officials in Côte d’Ivoire, a country with an old and diverse Lebanese business community, told me that Turkish Air had carried smuggled gold meant for Hezbollah. ..."

It’s Time to Ban Turkish Air from U.S. Airspace | American Enterprise Institute - AEI "Turkey’s Airspace Action Against Israel, and Its Support for Hamas, Should Compel President Trump to Act Immediately in Response

Osman Sultan Erdogan with wife