TRUMP BUSINESS: “…Turkey, officials including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a religiously conservative Muslim, demanded that Mr. Trump’s name be removed from Trump Towers in Istanbul after he called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. More recently, after Mr. Trump came to the defense of Mr. Erdogan — suggesting that he had the right to crack down harshly on dissidents after a failed coup — the calls for action against Trump Towers have stopped, fueling worries that Mr. Trump’s policies toward Turkey might be shaped by his commercial interests.
Mr. Trump has acknowledged a conflict of interest in Turkey. ‘I have a little conflict of interest because I have a major, major building in Istanbul,’ he said during a radio interview last year with Stephen K. Bannon, the Breitbart News executive who has since been designated his chief White House strategist. ‘It’s a tremendously successful job. It’s called Trump Towers — two towers, instead of one. Not the usual one. It’s two.’ “
-Richard C. Paddock, Eric Lipton, Ellen Barry, Rod Norland, Danny Hakim, and Simon Romero, “Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President,” The New York Times online, Nov. 26, 2017