{"id":1466592,"date":"2022-05-06T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466592"},"modified":"2022-05-06T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:00:18","slug":"pompeo-bastes-oz-over-turkey-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pompeo-bastes-oz-over-turkey-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo Bastes Oz Over Turkey Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpompeo-bastes-oz-over-turkey-ties%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466592&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Former CIA director says Pennsylvania Senate candidate&#8217;s ties to Erdogan&#8217;s government raise national security concerns<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tTurkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks with doctor Mehmet Oz \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 May 6, 2022 12:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Former CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo wants celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz to talk Turkey. Speaking at a press conference Friday, the ex-spy chief said the Pennsylvania Senate candidate owes voters an explanation about his decision to vote in the 2018 Turkish presidential election while skipping New Jersey\u2019s Senate primary the same month.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo argued that Oz\u2019s ties to the Turkish government raise serious national security concerns. &#8220;There are still things we don&#8217;t know about his connections to the Turkish government,&#8221; Pompeo told reporters at the event, arranged by GOP candidate Dave McCormick&#8217;s campaign. Some national security experts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/02\/16\/doctor-oz-close-ties-to-turkey-raise-concern-about-senate-candidacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/02\/16\/doctor-oz-close-ties-to-turkey-raise-concern-about-senate-candidacy\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1651939883509000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1Y1YtCU0nJD5k9sTIqGx_i\">say<\/a>\u00a0Oz&#8217;s political and financial ties to Turkey could give Ankara leverage over him if elected.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo&#8217;s remarks came in a call with reporters on Friday organized by Oz&#8217;s opponent in the Pennsylvania Senate primary, David McCormick.<\/p>\n<p>Oz, who is running neck and neck with McCormick, has come under fire for serving in the Turkish military and over his interactions with Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Trump-endorsed candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/oz-announces-major-decision-on-turkish-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reluctantly agreed<\/a> to give up his dual Turkish citizenship, saying he would do so if elected in November.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo focused heavily on Oz&#8217;s June 2018 vote in the Turkish presidential race, saying it raises questions about Oz&#8217;s &#8220;priorities.&#8221; Oz&#8217;s vote, which <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/dr-ozs-vote-2018-turkish-election-renews-criticism\/story?id=84326742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he cast<\/a> at the Turkish consulate in New York City, seemingly contradicted his claim to have &#8220;never been politically involved in Turkey in any capacity.&#8221; Pompeo also asserted Oz skipped a vote in a Republican primary just days before he voted in the Turkish presidential contest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The campaign owes the people of Pennsylvania an explanation for this,&#8221; Pompeo said.<\/p>\n<p>Oz&#8217;s voting records from New Jersey, where he resided before entering the Pennsylvania race, indicate he did not cast a vote in a primary election held on June 5, 2018. Oz voted in the Turkish election on June 13, 2018, according to a photo posted on the Turkish consulate&#8217;s Facebook account.<\/p>\n<p>While Pompeo focused on Oz&#8217;s ties to Turkey, his business activities in China have also raised red flags. Oz raked in millions of dollars selling rights to his television show in China. He <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/dr-oz-promoted-controversial-medicine-in-book-written-with-ccp-backed-academic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cowrote a book<\/a> last year with the president of a Chinese university controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. The project was related to Oz&#8217;s investment in a Chinese health and wellness company. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/dr-oz-criticized-trumps-china-trade-policy-in-interview-with-ccp-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared<\/a> on Chinese state-run television to criticize Trump-era trade policies against China.<\/p>\n<p>Oz&#8217;s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Former CIA director says Pennsylvania Senate candidate&#8217;s ties to Erdogan&#8217;s government raise national security concerns  Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks with doctor Mehmet Oz \/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}