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The Grand Turk
Trump: US to 'devastate Turkey economically' if it attacks Syrian Kurds
2019-01-14
[DW] In a Tweet on Sunday, 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...
threatened a harsh response against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
if it attacked US-allied Kurds in Syria. Ankara has pledged to eliminate Kurdish forces, which they consider terrorists.


US President Donald Trump has warned Turkey that it risks economic retaliation by the United States if it attacks Syrian Kurdish forces after the withdrawal of US troops from Syria.

"Will devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds," Trump wrote in a Tweet late on Sunday, without elaborating.

Trump's comments follow 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...
's pledge to take action against the YPG, which Turkey considers a terrorist organization linked to the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) within Turkey.

The president also called for the creation of a 20-mile (30-kilometer) safe zone in Syria and said he did not want US-allied Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, to seek any confrontation with Ankara.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  How? Easiest is to forbid bank exchanges with Turkish banks as we do to Iranian banks. How many banks will choose to give up the American market altogether for Turkey when they did not for Iran?

The report on direct US-Tukey trade can be read here.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-01-14 15:22  

#3  um? how? Put a ban on rugs?
Posted by: Blinky Sinatra6473   2019-01-14 08:50  

#2  "Your move, Yippy Blustery Boy"
Posted by: Frank G   2019-01-14 08:50  

#1  You have hostages in Incirlik because of the lingering Cold War generals.

Same Navy and Air Force generals who declared we'd lose the Pacific if we left Subic Bay and Clark Airbase in the Philippines.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-01-14 08:49  

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