Ahval

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has a personal dislike for businessman Osman Kavala, who is kept in prison based on conspiracy theories, Henri J. Barkey, an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council of Foreign Relations, said. Barkey told Ahval podcast with journalist Nervana Mahmoud on Tuesday that Turkey had accused him of organizing the coup attempt in 2016 as they were “looking to blame the United States for it.’’