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The Grand Turk
Germany not considering financial aid for Turkey
2018-08-29
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Germany is not considering providing The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
 with a financial lifeline to help it overcome a crisis sparked by a fast falling lira, a government official told Rooters on Tuesday.

"Our position has not changed," the official said, pointing to a government statement on Aug. 20 that financial aid to Turkey was not a question for Germany at the moment.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that the German government was considering providing emergency financial assistance to its ally in the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
 military alliance.

The Ottoman Turkish lira weakened on Tuesday as investors gauged the government’s efforts to manage its rift with the United States, which has imposed trade sanctions on Turkey.

The dispute with the United States over an American evangelical Christian pastor detained in Turkey on terrorism charges has accelerated losses in the lira, which is down about 38 percent against the dollar this year.

The Ottoman Turkish and German governments are also trying to mend ties strained by Turkey’s detention of German citizens and German criticism of President Tayyip Erdogan’s security crackdown after a failed coup in 2016.

Erdogan pays a state visit to Germany next month, another sign that the two countries want to patch up relations.

A second German official told Rooters: "You can’t do much from outside but to stress that Turkey must reform itself."

Investors are worried about the direction of monetary policy under Erdogan. The president, a self-described "enemy of interest rates", has repeatedly put public pressure on the central bank and also picked his son-in-law as finance minister.

Posted by:Fred

#5  What about the money they were paying Turkey to keep all those refugees migrants colonists from crossing into Europe? I've lost track -- are they still paying?
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-08-29 13:52  

#4  The threat of sanctions is working.
They could offer Turks low interest loans on BMWs.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-08-29 12:49  

#3  "We're busy. Come back in 2019?"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-08-29 07:39  

#2  Because they've already decided?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-08-29 05:25  

#1  that financial aid to Turkey was not a question for Germany at the moment.

Moments come and go. This is a non-denial denial.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2018-08-29 05:09  

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