Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday strongly condemned the US unilateral sanctions against Turkey. U.S. addiction to sanctions and contempt for international law at full display again, Zarif wrote on his official Twitter account. The United States has sanctioned Turkeys top defense procurement and development body Presidency ...

Press TV - The US State Department has imposed sanctions against 13 foreign entities and individuals in China, Iraq, Russia and Turkey over what it calls their support for Irans missile program. Ina statementreleased on Tuesday,US Secretary of StateMike Pompeosaid new sanctions have been imposed against five entities and individuals in China including ...

Press TV - The United States has imposed sanctions on two Turkish ministries and three senior government officials over the country's military offensive against Kurdish militants in northern Syria. The US Department of the Treasury said in a statement on Monday that it has imposed sanctions on Turkey's Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry ...

MNA The Spokesman of Iranian Foreign Ministry Bahram Ghasemi says that Iran will definitely hold Europe accountable for not putting the special financial mechanism into force. The Europeans, who are primarily to blame, must think of the consequences of their decision, Bahram Ghasemi said in an interview on Saturday, stressing that the Europeans ...

MNA Like certain other countries, Turkey also believes that the world should get rid of the dominance of US dollar, Turkish Ambassador to Tehran Riza Hakan Tekin says. Specifically, if we talk about dominance, yes we agree, Ambassador Tekin tells Mehr News agency. The top Turkish diplomat in Tehran, who visited the premises of the ...

Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the United States of launching what he called a "heinous economic attack" on Turkey after the national currency lira hit a record low following US sanctions. During a speech to officials from his AK Party in Ankara on Friday, Erdogan also said Turkey would see the result of the central ...

FNA - Turkey called on world nations to form a united front against the US which has imposed sanctions on Ankara, a close ally of Washington in the Middle East. It is clearly in the interest of most countries to cooperate in resisting unilateral economic decisions by powerful actors that are motivated by narrowly defined national interests, Turkish ...

FNA - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday stated that the US dollar's reign on global trade should come to an end by adopting trade with local currencies between countries. Speaking at Turkey-Kyrgyzstan Business Forum in Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, Erdogan said that dependence on the US dollar was becoming more of a burden each passing ...

Alwaght - The new Turkish era, ushered in by the rise of Justice and Development Party (AKP)to power in 2002, is marked by the neo-Ottomanism of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his fellow party members who seek to restore their countrys historical role as a regional hegemonic power and a weighty actor on the global stage. Despite the fact that the modern-...

Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on his nation to demonstrate commitment and determination as firm guarantees needed to combat attacks on Turkeys economy amid the countrys deepening financial crisis triggered by an array of sanctions imposed by the United States over the detention of an American pastor. As we tackle ...

Reuters - The lira weakened on Thursday, staying under pressure as a damaging standoff between Turkey and the United States centred on the fate of a Christian pastor showed no signs of easing. Ankara accused Washington of waging economic war and failing to respect its legal system over Andrew Brunson, whose trial in Turkey on terrorism charges -...

Presss TV - The World Trade Organization (WTO) says Turkey has initiated a dispute complaint with the Swiss-based intergovernmental trade court against additional metal tariffs imposed by the United States on the Anatolian country over the detention of an American pastor. Turkey has requested WTO dispute consultations with the United States ...

Press TV - President Tayyip Erdogan has resembled an attack on Turkey's economy to a strike against its flag or call to prayer, saying the campaignaims to bring "Turkey and its people to their knees." "The attack on our economy has absolutely no difference from attacks on our call to prayer and our flag,"Erdogan said in an address released Monday ...

IRNA | Ali-Reza Jabbari: Being sanctioned by the US, which has played the most significant role in harming and destroying Turkey in the past years, has revealed the true nature of Washington to Ankara. Amerika Birle?ik Devletleri (ABD) is the way Turkish people call the United States of America. Although the US does not have high credibility ...

IFP - A complicated plot hatched by the Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD) and the funds provided by the UAE and Saudi Arabia have been at work to decrease the value of the Turkish national currency, a media report claims. The Fars News Agency has, in an article, discussed a complicated plan to bring down the value of the Turkish ...

MNA Referring to strong economy of Turkey, Senior member of Turkeys CHP member says the evangelical circles in the USA, have turned the Pastor Brunson issue into a show case to win the millions of evangelical votes in the upcoming mid-term elections in November. The US has threatened to impose more economic sanctions on Turkey if it does ...

Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will not surrender to the United States under the sanctions imposed by the US over the detention of an American pastor, accusing Washington of launching an attempted economic coup against Ankara. Today some people are trying to threaten us through the economy, through interest ...

IFP - A number of Turkish citizens have broken their iPhones into pieces in response to a call by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to boycott US electronics amid escalating tensions between Ankara and Washington. The Turks published videos of themselves breaking iPhones on social media, vowing to support their government which is standing up to ...

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Press TV - Amid a worsening dispute between the United States and Turkey, Iran says it will always stand by its neighboring country and provide it with any required help. In an interview with IRIB on Saturday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi slammed a new wave of US sanctions against Turkey, saying such approaches would prove ineffective....