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Turkey/America: the divorce
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fridi"If America turns her back on us, choosing some pastor instead, I'm sorry, but we'll have to go our own path with resolute steps. This attitude to a strategic partner is upsetting", Turkish president Erdogan recently commented about Trump's punitive tariffs, and then vowed he'd steer his country towards new allies, and away from America.
The tension has escalated exponentially, which led to economic woes to Turkey: a drastic devaluation of the national currency, skyrocketing inflation, tariffs on exports to the US. The two sides are on a direct collision course on an array of issues: from the case with Gulen, and the US pastor who was arrested and charged with terrorism, to the competing interests in Syria, to the Turkish plans to buy Russian defense systems.
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The tension has escalated exponentially, which led to economic woes to Turkey: a drastic devaluation of the national currency, skyrocketing inflation, tariffs on exports to the US. The two sides are on a direct collision course on an array of issues: from the case with Gulen, and the US pastor who was arrested and charged with terrorism, to the competing interests in Syria, to the Turkish plans to buy Russian defense systems.
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