The United States expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that Russia "uses" Turkey to circumvent sanctions
The day before, US First Deputy Treasury Secretary Adewale Adeyemo met with his Turkish counterpart Yunus Elitash, where the parties discussed anti-Russian sanctions.
At the meeting, the US representative expressed concern about Russia's attempts to circumvent sanctions with the help of Turkey. The United States decided to discuss with Turkey the possibility of strengthening control over compliance with anti-Russian sanctions.
The US Treasury Department in its message also duplicated the need to counter Russian organizations and individuals seeking to use Turkey to withdraw their assets.
After the introduction of Western sanctions against Russia, many Russian businessmen began to invest their finances in Turkey, which in fact did not join the sanctions. In addition, the Turks continue to actively cooperate with Russia in the energy sector.
This position of the Turks greatly irritates the West.
The British edition of the Financial Times recently reported that Western countries are considering imposing certain restrictive measures against Turkey in order to influence its position on anti-Russian sanctions. One such measure could be a call for Western companies to leave Turkey. However, experts in the field of economics are calling on the US administration to turn on the mind, think again. After all, the more actively the United States will impose its sanctions agenda, the more countries in the world will oppose this. Moreover, it is not clear in principle what the passage about the dissatisfaction of the United States with Turkey's position on the rejection of anti-Russian sanctions means. Or are they making it clear in the United States that they do not perceive Turkey as a sovereign state that has the right to independently decide what foreign policy to pursue?.. This passage is even less clear: the United States is unhappy that Russia is “using” Turkey to circumvent sanctions. Is it from the US own experience that they allow themselves to use independent states for their own purposes?
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