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Steven A. Cook
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Steven A. Cook
@stevenacook
Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for MENA @CFR_org. Big NY sports & pizza guy. Goofy dad. I'd rather be skiing. My own opinions. RTs ≠endorsement.
- The Saudis clearly messed with the wrong newspaper. There are 5 articles, 2 opeds, and an editorial about the Khashoggi case in today’s @washingtonpost
- As world leaders congratulate Pres Erdogan this evening, I can't help but think about the journalists, lawyers, doctors, activists, and many others unjustly jailed in Turkey.
- Today in 1973 "The Crossing." An extraordinary military achievement. No one believe Egypt could accomplish it.
- Just spent 2 weeks in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Tel Aviv, and J'lem. Everyone's first two questions: "What is wrong with the United States?" Has everyone gone mad?"
- Van tonight after the Turkish authorities refused to recognize the landslide victory of the DEM Party candidate for mayor and have installed the AKP's candidate.
00:00 - It is one thing to negotiate with the govt of #Turkey; it is quite another to spend a lovely evening out with the leading jailer of journalists in the world.
- Sweden meets the criteria for NATO membership. Turkey does not meet the criteria for EU membership.
- My latest @ForeignPolicy How Sisi Ruined Egypt "A decade or so after Egyptians rose up demanding bread, freedom, and social justice, they have none of those things."
- Cevheri Guven has been dogged in his efforts to expose the dark and corrupt aspects of AKP rule... Im told he is under German police protection.#Turkey's spy agency run a surveillance on #Germany-based investigative journalist @cevheriguven, leaked photos of his home to media, drew a target on his back, hoping to intimidate him. Journo Cevheri Guven has been exposing #Erdogan regime with impressive investigative work.
00:00 - Glad my daughter withdrew her application from @Columbia
- Lol! The accusation that analysts who dare criticize Egypt and Pres Sisi are getting paid by the Muslim Brotherhood is so lame and tired. I have a hard time believing that anyone takes this nonsense seriously.Interesting! Nashat al-Daihi, one of the Sisi regime’s mouthpieces accuses Stephen A Cook of getting paid from the Muslim Brotherhood to attack the Egyptian regime through his articles in Foreign Policy. It seems that Cook's latest report about How Sisi Ruined Egypt has
