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The Grand Turk
Bolton: Turkey can end lira crisis 'instantly' by freeing pastor
2018-08-23
[Al Jazeera] 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...
's national security adviser has said that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
could end its lira-battering crisis with Washington "instantly" by freeing a detained American pastor, adding that a Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i cash infusion would not help Ankara's economy.

The Ottoman Turkish currency has been in freefall since Washington ordered tariffs in retaliation for the detention of Pastor Andrew Brunson on charges of complicity in a failed 2016 coup.

Brunson denies wrongdoing, and Ankara has in the past suggested his fate could be linked to that of a US-based Ottoman Turkish religious leader whom Ottoman Turkish 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...
accuses of orchestrating the attempted putsch.

Brunson, who has lived in Turkey for two decades, has been detained for 21 months, charged with terrorism by the Ottoman Turkish government. He is now under house arrest.

"Look, the Ottoman Turkish government made a big mistake in not releasing Pastor Brunson," John Bolton told the Rooters news agency in an interview during a visit to Israel.

"Every day that goes by that mistake continues, this crisis could be over instantly if they did the right thing as a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
ally, part of the West, and release pastor Brunson without condition."

Posted by:Fred

#1  The headline is imprecise. US sanctions, which are still largely symbolic are not the cause of Turkey's economic troubles.

Erdogan's ill-advised economic policies that led to the Lira crisis started long before Turkey dared take citizens of Western nations hostage
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2018-08-23 04:39  

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