John Bolton urged to elaborate on Trump-Erdoğan claims
by Bethan McKernan in Istanbul from on (#54QZW)
New book claims US president agreed to intervene in federal investigation into Turkish bank
The former US national security adviser John Bolton is facing calls to elaborate on a claim in his new book that Donald Trump agreed to help Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoan by intervening in a federal investigation into a Turkish state-owned bank.
In excerpts of the memoir seen by US media, Bolton said Trump appeared to give personal favours to dictators he liked", and claimed that during a 2018 phone call Erdoan sent Trump a memo insisting that the scandal-hit Halkbank was innocent.
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