Celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz is under fire from national security experts after a resurfaced photo showed him casting a ballot in Turkey’s 2018 presidential election.
Oz, a dual U.S-Turkish citizen, pledged to revoke his Turkish citizenship if elected to the U.S. Senate after initially saying he’d forego security clearances to maintain it.
Even though Oz claimed on the campaign trail to have “never been politically involved in Turkey in any capacity,” he voted in Turkey’s most recent presidential election, according to his spokesperson, Brittany Yanick, who confirmed the photo’s authenticity.
Yanick defended Oz’s vote by distinguishing casting a ballot from being “actively engaged” in the Turkish government. “Voting in an election is far different from being actively engaged in the political work of the Turkish government, which Dr. Oz has never been involved…
