{"id":1003,"date":"2017-10-10T17:18:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/ankara-does-not-recognize-john-bass-as-us-envoy-in-turkey-any-longer-erdogan\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:18:30","slug":"ankara-does-not-recognize-john-bass-as-us-envoy-in-turkey-any-longer-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/ankara-does-not-recognize-john-bass-as-us-envoy-in-turkey-any-longer-erdogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankara does not recognize John Bass as US envoy in Turkey any longer: Erdogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara does not recognize outgoing John Bass as the US ambassador in the Anatolian country and boycotts all official meetings with him, as a newly erupted visa crisis between the two countries further unfolds.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"114\">\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe ambassador is currently paying farewell visits but neither our ministers, nor the parliament speaker, nor myself have\u00a0accepted these farewell visits because we do not see him as\u00a0the representative of the US in Turkey,\u201d said the Turkish president in a joint press conference with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic in Serbia\u2019s capital, Belgrade, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJohn Bass, 53, has been Washington\u2019s envoy to Turkey since October 2014 and is set to leave Turkey shortly, after his nomination for the US envoy to Afghanistan was confirmed by the Senate late last month. It is unprecedented in the history of Ankara-Washington relations for Turkey to say it no longer recognizes Washington&#8217;s ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHis departure from Turkey comes amid a deepening visa crisis between Ankara and Washington, triggered on October 5, when Turkish authorities ordered the arrest of Metin Topuz, a Turkish staff member at the US Consulate in Istanbul, accusing him of espionage and having links with the followers of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for a coup attempt last year.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn response, the US Embassy in Ankara announced on Sunday that it was immediately suspending all non-immigrant visa services at its diplomatic missions in Turkey, citing security concerns. Washington\u2019s decision was not left unanswered. It prompted Ankara to freeze \u201call visa services\u201d for Americans in the US in a tit-for-tat move.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cHow did those spies infiltrate into the US Consulate? If they did not infiltrate, who put them there? No state would allow such spies that could threaten it from the inside,\u201d Erdogan said at the presser, adding that Washington should dismiss Bass if he made the decision to suspend visa services in Turkey.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><figcaption\/><\/figure>\n<p>\n\tEarlier in the day, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim also rejected Washington\u2019s criticisms of Ankara over the arrest of a US consulate staffer.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cTurkey is a state of law. Does the fact that he who committed a crime or is accused of a crime is (a member) of an American mission give him any privileges? Does that mean we have to seek the permission of the (US) gentlemen? Do we need their consent?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Turkish premier also lambasted the US move in suspending the non-immigrant visa services for Turkish nationals at US diplomatic facilities in Turkey, arguing that the move was in fact a punitive measure against Turks.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIt is very inappropriate behavior to punish the citizens. It\u2019s behavior that doesn\u2019t befit \u2026 the US. We invite the US to act with more common sense,\u201d Yildirim said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe diplomatic spat is the worst\u00a0deterioration in relations\u00a0between the two NATO allies in recent years, coming at a time of Turkish grievances over US support for Kurdish militants in Syria, which Ankara views as terrorists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tErdogan has also slammed American officials for rejecting his requests to hand over Gulen, accused of being the mastermind of the mid-July 2016 botched putsch, during which almost 250 people were killed and nearly 2,200 others wounded.\u00a0Gulen has already denied the charges.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a post-coup crackdown, Turkey has suspended or dismissed more than 150,000 judges, policemen, teachers, and civil servants and has arrested nearly 50,000 others, a move that drew Washington\u2019s criticisms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara does not recognize outgoing John Bass as the US ambassador in the Anatolian country and boycotts all official meetings with him, as a newly erupted visa crisis between the two countries further unfolds. \u201cThe ambassador is currently paying farewell visits but neither our ministers, nor the parliament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[639],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - 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