A law firm hired by Turkey is lobbying US state officials about charter schools allegedly run by Turkish opposition leader Fethullah Gulen.
Operations at the Incirlik air base are up and running again — sort of — but now relations between the US and Turkey have become even more complicated.
Turkey is already one of the world's leading jailers of journalists, and it added to that score on Sunday by arresting media employees across the country. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says the arrests are part of a coup plot, but political motives seem more likely.
Imam Fethullah Gulen lives on a 25-acre estate in tiny town of Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. But his influence extends through every government agency in Istanbul.
What started as a corruption investigation against family members and business associates of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's inner circle has escalated with purges of the police and prosecutors who are investigating politicians. And the prime minister blames a shadowy religious leader who's in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania.