03/28/2017
https://www.congress.gov...
"This is not only a difficult challenge, but an existential one as well."
"I am troubled by Ankara's democratic backsliding and the negative trajectory in terms of freedom of expression, freedom of association, and peaceful assembly in Turkey."
"the authoritarian, anti-democratic impulse is resurgent in the world."
"The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a Russian geopolitical project that undercuts the energy security of a significant part of the Euro-Atlantic community."