Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Photo: Reuters
David P. Goldman, Asia Times: Turkish market crumbles as Erdogan overreaches
President's dalliance with Iran and snubbing of Western allies has caused a diplomatic crisis that has resulted in a tumbling market and foretells economic pain
urkey’s stock market has lost 17% in Euro terms since its late-August high point, courtesy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan overplaying his hand with Western allies.
The crisis in US-Turkish relations had been building for weeks, but became an open rupture when the US State Department suspended visa approvals for Turkish citizens traveling to the United States after Turkish police arrested a Turkish employee of the American embassy at Ankara for alleged participation in last summer’s coup attempt. The US denounced the arrest and dismissed the charges as “wholly without merit,” suspending visa approvals, and the Turkish government reciprocated with a similar ban.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 10, 2017
Turkey Has Turned Itself Into a Terrorist Target -- Daniele Grassi, National Interest
Japan's Abe Prays For Help -- William Pesek, Asia Times
North Korea Revealed -- Reuters
Xi Jinping's Moment -- Richard McGregor, Lowy Institute
A New Front in Asia’s Water War -- Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate
Is the India-China Border Heating Up Again? -- Sean Keeley, The American Interest
Doha’s downfall: Qatar frozen out in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon -- Sami Moubayed, Asia Times
The Murky Mechanics of Russia’s Governor Reshuffle (Op-ed) -- Nabi Abdullaev, Moscow Times
Russia’s House of Shadows -- Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker
What More Does Catalonia Want? -- Krishnadeve Calamur, The Atlantic
Catalonia: Spain's Smoldering Separatists -- Ben Sills & Esteban Duarte, Bloomberg
Spain stares into Catalan ‘abyss’ -- Diego Torres, Politico
How to Turn Battleground Ukraine Into a Success Story -- Anna Tikhonova & Cyril Fokin, National Interest
EU Officials Out Of Step With Reality, Europeans Don’t See What’s Coming at Them -- George Friedman, Mauldin Economics
Are Trump's Feuds With Tillerson and Corker a Prelude to War? -- David Graham, The Atlantic
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Erdowan bears an uncanny resemblance to that distasteful, treacherous character from the Tolkein tomes...
Totally delighted that the Turkish market is crumbling, and I hope it continues. Erdogan is possibly one of the most dangerous dictators around simply for the fact that this man is incredibly power hungry, ambitious and in a lot of ways, reminds me of parallels with Hitler.
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