Mail records reveal UAE’s incitement against Turkey in US Congress
Rrecords revealed a pressure company in the United States, on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, was trying to put pressure on some senators in the US Congress to impose sanctions on Turkey.
According to email records published by the Turkish Anatolia Agency, Akin Gump, a political pressure company based in Washington, DC, sent an email to some of the deputies in Congress, after the House of Representatives adopted a resolution on imposing sanctions on Turkey for its military operations in Syria .
The company sent the e-mail on November 7, on behalf of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington.
The mail includes a condemnation of the Turkish “spring of peace” operation in northern Syria, and that “the UAE supports measures to impose sanctions on Turkey, similar to a draft resolution adopted by the US House of Representatives.”
The e-mail indicates Qatar’s support for the Turkish peace process in Syria, along with some electronic links to support its content in this framework.
“We hope this information will help you, at a time when the United States continues to monitor developments in Syria, and the Senate is considering imposing sanctions on Turkey,” the mail said.
The e-mail records did not reveal the names of the senators to whom the e-mail was sent, and the UAE embassy in Washington declined to comment on the matter.
It is noteworthy that the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week adopted a draft resolution on imposing sanctions on Turkey, due to its purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system and its military operations in Syria.
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