Your investigative mind is great my friend.   Being a rational person, you know in your heart, you should be reading longer articals, by experts, and not the opinion pages.      

A bias to facts and good information is seldom found in the 60 second sound bites, twitter, chat or other short forms of communication that modern America prefers.

It would probably take days to really flesh out the Turkey problems - even at the shallowist of levels.   Most Americans know little about Turkey and will stay that way.    It's our isolationist history, it's our unflagging nationalism, that keeps the majority of us ignorant of foreign cultures.    Nominee Trump counts on that kind of jingoism to get the emotional response that he wants.   He hasn't been disappointed very often.