http://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/2018/08/11/erdogan-warns-trump-that-alliance-is-at-risk-as-tensions-climb#gs.u5jMiQA
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the U.S. that its decades-long alliance with the country is at risk after rising political tensions between the two nations erupted and helped stoke a financial crisis that shook global markets.
That "decades-long alliance" was with a secular, democratic Turkey - not the more radically mooslim, erratic, and loony dictatorship that it is, now.
Erdogan, in an editorial Friday in the New York Times, cited Turkey's cooperation with the U.S. dating back to the Cuban missile crisis and the Korean War as evidence of a long-standing partnership between the NATO allies. But he added that more recent disputes over a failed 2016 coup, the conflict in Syria and sanctions imposed this week against top Turkish officials and the country's steel industry were straining that alliance to its breaking point.
Of course Erdogan's propaganda would be published in the New York Slimes - where else?! The "failed 2016 coup" was a complete and utter farce conducted by you, Erdogan ... so you would have an excuse to crack down on your political opposition. Syria is an out-of-control hell-hole and you are not doing anything to make it any better ... in fact, you make it worse. And, if you insist on acting like a spoiled rotten brat, then you need to get your ass slapped - with sanctions. Quit acting like a ridiculous asshole and you won't get slapped, dumbass.
"Before it is too late, Washington must give up the misguided notion that our relationship can be asymmetrical and come to terms with the fact that Turkey has alternatives," Erdogan wrote. "Failure to reverse this trend of unilateralism and disrespect will require us to start looking for new friends and allies."
Hey, Erdogan ... don't let the door hit your slimy ass on the way out, jackass.
Turkey's economy was already taking a beating - with the lira plunging as Erdogan urged his citizens in a nationally-televised speech to sell their gold and dollar holdings to help prop up the lira - when President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced on Twitter that he was doubling tariffs on steel and aluminum from Turkey. ...
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