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Ballard Partners has signed on to represent Turkiye’s Ministry of National Defense on matters regarding security issues related to the U.S.
The $200K a month contract went into effect on Aug. 15 and runs for a year. The firm reports to General Ilkay Altindag, the Ministry’s director general for defense and security.
Brian Ballard, a top Florida fundraiser for Donald Trump, spearheads the effort.
The Turkiye team includes former Florida Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler, co-founder of the US-Turkish caucus; Thomas Boodry, special assistant to President Trump; and Syl Lukis, senior partner.
Gabriel Attal, who heads France’s Renaissance Partie, is relying on Gabriel Laurent Eshaghian, a Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate, aviation and investment executive, to boost his profile in the US ahead of France’s April 2027 elections.
TSG Advocates has inked a $240K one-year pact to provide PA and government relations services to the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency.
KARV is providing strategic communications to the American-Uzbek Business and Investment Council to promote US economic ties with the central Asian country.
Bethesda-based Tricuro has signed on South Korea for strategic communications support, messaging development, and media outreach related to US-Korea economic relations.
The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, which has been hit hard by the US/Iran war, has retained Continental Strategy to promote its interests among US policymakers, business leaders and key decision-makers.
