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The Grand Turk
Erdogan vows to defy US ‘threats’ after currency crash
2018-08-13
[DAWN] President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
vowed on Saturday to defy US "threats" over a detained pastor, showing no signs of concessions in a bitter row that has caused the Ottoman Turkish lira to crash.

Relations between the two NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
allies have sunk to their lowest point in decades over a string of issues including the detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson on terror-related charges, prompting the lira to hit record lows against the dollar.

The Ottoman Turkish strongman also lashed out at interest rates, denounced them as a "tool of exploitation" which should be kept as low as possible.

The embattled lira tumbled 16 per cent against the dollar on Friday, falling further when US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
said he had doubled steel and aluminium tariffs on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
"It is wrong to dare bring Turkey to its knees through threats over a pastor," Erdogan said in the Black Sea town of Unye.

"Shame on you, shame on you," he said in remarks directly addressed to Wash­ington. "You are exchanging your strategic partner in NATO for a priest."

Posted by:Fred

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