Biden to nominate former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake as ambassador to Turkey
President Biden intends to nominate former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) as ambassador to Turkey, the White House said on Tuesday.
"With this nomination, the Biden administration reaffirms the best tradition of American foreign policy and diplomacy: the credo that partisan politics should stop at the water's edge," Flake said in a statement. "U.S. foreign policy can and should be bipartisan. That is my belief as well, and my commitment." Flake was a critic of former President Donald Trump, and endorsed Biden in 2020. While in Congress, he served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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