Turkey, Facebook, Emmanuel Macron: Your Tuesday Briefing
Carl Vinson was a long-serving Georgia congressman whose zeal for military expansion led him to be called the "Father of the Two-Ocean Navy." Launched
in 1980, a year before Mr. Vinson’s death, the carrier was one of the first major Navy ships named after a living person since the 1800s.
[The New York Times] • Prince Harry said he suffered for years after the death of
his mother, Princess Diana, until he sought counseling about three years ago.
_____ A majority of Turkish voters agreed on Sunday to vastly expand the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He’s a democrat." That’s a description of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, by one of the slim majority of voters
who approved the new presidential system of government, which takes effect at the next election, slated for 2019.
_____ • It’s now France’s turn to worry about Russian meddling in its presidential
election with only a few days left before the first round of voting on Sunday.
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[The New York Times] • A small airplane crashed near a supermarket on the outskirts of Lisbon, killing five people.
