Biden Nominates Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake As Ambassador To Turkey
President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that he is nominating former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona), a Republican who endorsed Biden during his presidential run last year, as the U.S. ambassador to Turkey. Flake served as a senator representing Arizona from 2013 to 2019 and as the representative in the lower house from 2001 to 2013. “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. U.S. foreign policy can and should be bipartisan,” Flake said in a statement follo...