{"id":14609,"date":"2018-08-19T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=14609"},"modified":"2018-08-19T15:13:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T15:13:30","slug":"us-launching-attempted-economic-coup-against-ankara-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/us-launching-attempted-economic-coup-against-ankara-erdogan\/","title":{"rendered":"US launching \u2018attempted economic coup\u2019 against Ankara: Erdogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"item-image\"><figcaption id=\"mainFigCap\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the sixth Congress of the ruling AK Party (AKP) in Ankara, Turkey, August 18, 2018. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"embed\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"embed\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will not \u201csurrender\u201d to the United States under the sanctions imposed by the US over the detention of an American pastor, accusing Washington of launching an \u201cattempted economic coup\u201d against Ankara.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cToday some people are trying to threaten us through the economy, through interest rates, foreign exchange, investment and inflation. We are telling them: we\u2019ve seen your games, and we are challenging you,\u201d the Turkish leader told thousands of his supporters during the sixth Congress of the ruling AK Party (AKP) in the capital Ankara on Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Turkish lira has already lost about 30 percent of its value against the US dollar since the beginning of August, when tensions between the two NATO allies soared unprecedentedly over the detention of Andrew Brunson, an American Christen pastor, in Turkey over terror-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson, 50, was indicted by a Turkish court on charges of having links with\u00a0the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK) militant group and the movement of the US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of having masterminded the July 2016 coup attempt against Erdogan.<\/p>\n<p>The US pastor, who has already spent nearly two years behind bars in Turkey, has denied the charges, calling them \u201cshameful and disgusting.\u201d\u00a0If the evangelical pastor is found guilty, he will face up to 35 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor\u2019s imprisonment and then house arrest have caused one of the deepest rows\u00a0between Turkey and the US.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/08\/17\/571458\/Turkey-economic-crisis-China\">\n<div class=\"oembed\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/1452858779.rsc.cdn77.org\/photo\/20180817\/71fffae5-5ce5-4bd2-a5fb-41bb238e37e7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\">PressTV-China: Turkey can overcome &#8216;temporary&#8217; economic crisis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>China says it believes that Turkey has the ability to overcome the temporary economic difficulties.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Erdogan further said that his country would never bow before those \u201cwho set up their own order by exploiting the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter late last month that his country \u201cwill impose large sanctions on Turkey for their long time detainment of Pastor Andrew Brunson.\u201d He also said on Friday that he had ordered to double US tariffs on Turkish aluminum and steel imports to 20 percent and 50 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1022502465147682817\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The United States will impose large sanctions on Turkey for their long time detainment of Pastor Andrew Brunson, a great Christian, family man and wonderful human being. He is suffering greatly. This innocent man of faith should be released immediately!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe did not and will not surrender to those who act like a strategic partner but make us a strategic target,\u201d Erdogan further said, in a clear swipe at Trump.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/08\/17\/571417\/US-Turkey-Brunson-Trump-Erdogan-sanctions-Mnuchin\">\n<div class=\"oembed\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/1452858779.rsc.cdn77.org\/photo\/20180817\/6ba980e1-f52e-4f1d-abe9-450f6c2cd25d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\">PressTV-US threatens new sanctions, Turkey vows to respond<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The US Treasury secretary says Washington is ready to levy new sanctions against Turkey in response to Ankara\u2019s refusal to release a detained American pastor.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Friday, both Moody\u2019s and Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s ratings agencies\u00a0downgraded Turkey closer to junk status amid the current lira crisis, prompting Erdogan to challenge those playing \u201cgames\u201d on the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, in a tit-for-tat move, Ankara increased tariffs on several US-origin products\u00a0including alcohol, tobacco products and cars.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey and the US also disagree over their military interventions in the Syria\u00a0war, Ankara&#8217;s plan to buy missile defense systems from Russia and the US\u00a0conviction of a Turkish state bank executive on sanctions-busting charges in January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the sixth Congress of the ruling AK Party (AKP) in Ankara, Turkey, August 18, 2018. (Photo by AFP) &nbsp; &nbsp; Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will not \u201csurrender\u201d to the United States under the sanctions imposed by the US over the detention of an American &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14611,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609\/revisions\/14611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}