“I have serious concerns with Erdogan,” FMEP’s Matt Duss tells The Huffington Post. “But the idea that a military coup would’ve solved these problems is a fantasy.”

“Phares is one of a number of close Trump advisers with extremely troubling foreign- policy views which basically mirror those of Islamic extremists: Islam and the West are at war. It’s difficult to overstate how counterproductive it would be for the US to adopt this vision,” FMEP’s Matt Duss told The Jerusalem Post.