Sanctions On Turkey: The Secret History Of How It Happened And Nightmare Scenarios
Melik Kaylan Melik Kaylan Contributor
Policy As a strategic alliance of some 70 years degenerates into recriminations and tit-for-tat sanctions between Turkey and the U.S., let us consider the possible scenarios. What happens if Turkey dumps Nato and joins the strategic opposition? Can the Brunson case lead in that direction — and what's really going on there anyway? First the facts: Washington imposed Magnitsky-like global injunctions against two top officials of President Erdogan's cabinet, the Justice and Interior ministers, for Turkey's failure to release the evangelist Pastor Andrew Brunson. News emerged that Ankara rather cluelessly planned to retaliate in kind against the U.S. Attorney General and Interior Secretary – the latter official presides over National Parks. Turkey's top four non-Kurdish political parties issued a unified protest against the U.S. The Kurdish party didn't.
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