TURKEY PERSPECTIVE

Ankara treats Melania's denial with the measured tone of a country navigating between its Washington relations and its own complex relationship with presidential power. Daily Sabah calls the statement a 'forceful rejection' — an adjective emphasizing the vigor of the denial rather than its credibility. Turkey, whose President Erdogan has himself faced scandals involving his inner circle, never ventures onto the terrain of foreign leaders' personal affairs — a prudence that applies equally to Ankara and the White House. Daily Sabah is the only outlet in the pool to use 'false claims' (adopting Melania's terminology) rather than more distanced formulations.