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Erdogan says lira crash 'political plot' against Turkey
[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...
on Sunday said the crash of the Ottoman Turkish lira, sparked by a bitter dispute with the United States, was a "political plot" against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and warned Ankara would now seek new markets and partners.

The dispute between the two NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
allies ‐ which reached new intensity over the detention of an American pastor in Turkey ‐ has hammered the lira and also raised questions over the future partnership between Washington and Ankara.

The already embattled Ottoman Turkish lira tumbled some 16 per cent to new record lows against the dollar on Friday as 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 Turkey.

All eyes will be on the lira when foreign exchange markets reopen on Monday after the weekend pause. But Erdogan indicated he was in no mood to offer concessions to the United States, or financial markets.

"The aim of the operation is to make Turkey surrender in all areas, from finance to politics," Erdogan told ruling party members in the Black Sea city of Trabzon.


Posted by: Fred 2018-08-13
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=520580