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WORLD NEWS Monday 26 october 2020

Turkish president dares U.S. to impose economic sanctions

By ANDREW WILKS system. The purchase has Through Sanctions Act if
Associated Press already seen Turkey kicked the S-400 system were ac-
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — off the F-35 stealth fighter tivated. President Donald
Turkish President Recep program. Trump, however, has held
Tayyip Erdogan challenged "We stepped in for the F-35, back on implementing the
the United States to impose you threatened us," Erdo- sanctions amid hopes Erdo-
sanctions against his coun- gan told a televised ruling gan will not go ahead with
try while also launching a party congress in the east- activating the missiles.
second personal attack ern city of Malatya. "You Erdogan also returned to
Sunday on French Presi- said, 'Send the S-400s back personal insults of Macron,
dent Emmanuel Macron. to Russia.' We are not a trib- who has been a vocal crit-
Speaking a day after he al state. We are Turkey." ic of Turkish foreign policy in
suggested Macron need- The dispute over the S-400s, recent months.
ed mental health treat- which NATO says pose a "The person in charge of
ment because of his views threat to the military alli- France has lost his way,"
on Islam and radical Mus- ance and particularly en- Erdogan said. "He goes A youth holds a photograph of France's President Emmanuel
lims, Erdogan expanded danger the technical se- on about Erdogan while Macron, stamped with a shoe mark, during a protest against
his range to take aim at for- crets of the F-35, is among in bed and while awake. France in Istanbul, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020.
eign critics. a number of recent dis- Look at yourself first and Associated Press.
"Whatever your sanctions putes between Turkey and where you're going. I said had been made "targets aspora ahead of a Turkish
are, don't be late," Erdo- some of its NATO allies. yesterday in Kayseri, he is a for uncovering rising racism referendum on enlarging
gan said, referring to U.S. These include gas explora- case and he really must be in Europe." his powers.q
warnings for Turkey not tion in the eastern Medi- examined." He added: "Fascism is not in
to get directly involved in terranean that has threat- Erdogan also turned his our book, it is in your book.
the conflict over Nagorno- ened a confrontation with ire to Dutch anti-Islam Nazism happened in your
Karabakh, where Ankara Greece, as well as Turkey's lawmaker Geert Wilders, countries."
supports Azerbaijan against stance in Syria, where it has whose tweet describing Er- Three years ago, Erdogan
ethnic Armenian forces. targeted America's Kurdish dogan as a "terrorist" was sparked controversy when
The Turkish leader also allies. given prominence by sev- he called the Dutch gov-
mentioned Washington's For months, the U.S. warned eral senior members of Tur- ernment "Nazi remnants
threat of sanctions after Ankara that it risked sanc- key's government and rul- and fascists" over blocks
Turkey tested the Russian- tions under the Counter- ing party on Sunday. on campaigning among
made S-400 air defense ing America's Adversaries The president said Turks the Netherlands' Turkish di-