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AP Photo/Marc Levy Celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz is under fire from national security experts after a resurfaced photo showed him casting a ballot in Turkey’s 2018 presidential election.
Oz, a dual U.S-Turkish citizen, pledged to revoke his Turkish citizenship if elected to the U.S. Senate after initially saying he’d forego security clearances to maintain it.
Even though Oz claimed on the campaign trail to have “never been politically involved in Turkey in any capacity,” he voted in Turkey’s most recent presidential election, according to his spokesperson, Brittany Yanick, who confirmed the photo’s authenticity.
Yanick defended Oz’s vote by distinguishing casting a ballot from being “actively engaged” in the Turkish government. “Voting in an election is far different from being actively engaged in the political work of the Turkish government, which Dr. Oz has never been involved with,” Yanick told ABC News. “There is no security issue whatsoever.”
Yanick added that Oz’s vote was a last minute decision while visiting Turkey’s consulate to discuss “humanitarian work on behalf of Syrian refugees in Turkey.” Oz reportedly voted for Muharrem Ince in his failed attempt to unseat Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
A former government attorney familiar with federal security clearances said that Oz’s 2018 vote “is […]
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