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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin fired a warning shot at Turkey on Friday, istanbul escort saying Donald Trump is prepared to impose ‘very significant’ sanctions on Ankara, if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan steps out of line.
Mnuchin said that Trump had signed an executive order giving Treasury the authority, in consultation with the State Department, to impose sanctions at a moment’s notice.
He declined to elaborate on potential targets but said financial institutions had been put on notice.
Turkey has also been told not to ‘allow even a single ISIS fighter to escape’ from captivity, he announced from the White House podium at a short-notice briefing.
Despite the warning, he said Erdogan’s invitation to visit the White House on November 13 remained intact.
The White House announcement was intended to mollify Republican lawmakers threatening to revolt over the president’s decision to remove U.S.
troops from Syria, in what they decried as an abandonment of Kurdish allies who helped defeat ISIS, and turn over control of imprisoned terrorists to Erdogan’s army.
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Chris Van Hollen have vowed to sanction Turkey over the incursion.
Mnuchin told DailyMail.com the president has it handled, and Congress should stand down.
‘Secretary Pompeo has been speaking to them daily.
I’ve been speaking to the Secretary multiple times a day. I think the message to Congress is — I know that people were contemplating sanctions. We’re on top of sanctions. The president will use them when necessary,’ he said.
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin fired a warning shot at Turkey on Friday, saying the president is ready to impose sanctions, if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan steps out of line
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On Friday it was reported that a hundred thousand terrified civilians fled northern Syria as Erdogan’s troops continued to advance. Ankara claimed it had killed 342 Kurdish fighters.
Air strikes, artillery bombardments and small arms fire raged throughout border settlements along the 75-mile front for a third day, with Foreign Minister Hulusi Akar today announcing Turkey’s forces had ‘neutralised’ hundreds of ‘terrorists.’
The United Nations estimated 100,000 people had fled, piling trucks and cars high with their possessions as shells decimated their hometowns, in a grim echo of how they sought refuge from marauding ISIS fanatics only a few years before.
France said EU sanctions ‘were on the table’ today, amid widespread international condemnation for the invasion, with Emmanuel Macron warning Turkey risked ‘helping Daesh (ISIS) rebuild a caliphate.’
President Donald Trump, who pulled his Kurd-backing forces out of Syria earlier this week, declared last night the U.S.
was faced with three options: ‘Send in thousands of troops and win Militarily, hit Turkey very hard Financially and with Sanctions, or mediate a deal between Turkey and the Kurds!’
Trump’s tweet follows backlash from within his own Republican ranks over the perceived betrayal of the Kurds, who were pivotal in defeating ISIS in Syria earlier this year.
The president had already taken a large-scale deployment off the table.
He’s talked extensively about quitting ‘endless wars’ that
The President is concerned about the ongoing military offensive and potential targeting of civilians, civilian infrastructure, ethnic or religious minorities. And also the President wants to make very clear: It is imperative that Turkey not allow even a single ISIS fighter to escape.
Furthermore, the Kurds have been guarding some 10,000 ISIS prisoners and Russian President Vladimir Putin joined British and US politicians today in expressing fears that they might escape.
‘I’m not sure whether the Turkish army will be able to take this under control – and how soon,’ Putin said in televised remarks.
‘This is a real threat to us.’
Turkey backed fighters of the Syrian National Army, a rebel Syrian militia which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has allied with in his fight against the Kurds, carry light machine guns and bandoliers slung over their shoulders as they rally at the border today
Turkish-backed Syrian forces cross the border into the north of their homeland today as smoke rises in the horizon from one of the shelled border towns
Syrian fighters loyal to Turkey pass through a gap in the border wall on Friday as they prepare to take on Kurdish militias
An armoured car rounds the border wall as a Turkish-backed soldiers of the Syrian National Army prepare to take the fight to the Kurds on Friday
An armoured car heads into battle as it supports ground troops moving over the border into northern Syria today
A Pro-Turkish Syrian fighter crosses the border backed by his comrades, wielding an AK-57 and a grenade launcher, as he readies for battle
Syrian forces backed by Erdogan cross the frontier today, the third day of the Turkish offensive against Kurd militias in northern Syria
Pro-Turkish Syrian fighters march on the Turkish side of the border wall as they prepare to battle Kurdish militia over the other side
Clouds of smoke rise from a settlement in northern Syria on Thursday as seen from across the border in Ceylanpinar, in Sanliurfa, Turkey
President Donald Trump, who pulled his Kurd-backing forces out of Syria earlier this week, tweeted last night after facing backlash from within his own ranks
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