{"id":1001,"date":"2017-10-10T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/turkeys-erdogan-blames-us-envoy-for-diplomatic-crisis\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:52:45","slug":"turkeys-erdogan-blames-us-envoy-for-diplomatic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/turkeys-erdogan-blames-us-envoy-for-diplomatic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s Erdogan blames US envoy for diplomatic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday blamed the US ambassador to Turkey for a diplomatic crisis between the two countries and said Ankara no longer considered him as Washington\u2019s envoy.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tIn a blunt and personal attack on outgoing ambassador John Bass, Erdogan suggested Bass acted unilaterally in suspending visa services in Turkey after the arrest of a US consulate worker, and said \u201cagents\u201d had infiltrated US missions, Reuters reported. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tThe dispute has plunged already fragile relations between the two NATO allies to a new low after months of tension linked to the conflict in Syria, last year\u2019s failed military coup in Turkey, and US court cases against Turkish officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tThe US Embassy said on Sunday that it was suspending visa services while it assessed Turkey\u2019s commitment to the safety of its missions and its staff, a message reiterated in a video released by Bass late on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAn ambassador in Ankara taking decisions and saying he is doing so in the name of his government is strange,\u201d Erdogan said. \u201cIf our ambassador did this, we wouldn\u2019t keep him there even a minute.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tThe US Embassy said allegations that the arrested employee had links to Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Muslim cleric blamed by Ankara for orchestrating the failed coup against Erdogan last year, were baseless.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tBut Erdogan said the arrest, and a police request to question a second consulate employee, showed \u201cthere is something cooking in the US Consulate in Istanbul… How did these agents infiltrate the US Consulate?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tHe said Bass, who is due to leave the country within days to take up a post in Afghanistan, had been making farewell visits to government offices.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut our ministers, Parliament speaker and myself did not accept and will not accept his request because we do not see him as a representative of the United States,\u201d Erdogan told a televised news conference during a visit to Belgrade.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNot a tribal state\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tTurkey\u2019s currency and stock market were both hit on Monday by the dispute. On Tuesday, the main BIST 100 stock index rebounded, rising 1.94 percent by 1320 GMT, and the lira was also up one percent at 3.6675 to the dollar.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tPrime Minister Binali Yildirim said the visa suspension had punished citizens of both countries, and accused Washington of taking an emotional and inappropriate step against an ally.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou are making your citizens and ours pay the price,\u201d he said. \u201cWe call on the United States to be more reasonable. The issue must of course be resolved as soon as possible,\u201d he said, describing US behavior as \u201cunbecoming\u201d of an ally.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tIn a speech in Ankara to ruling AK Party parliamentarians, Yildirim also defended Turkey\u2019s decision to retaliate with its own visa suspension after the US Embassy announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTurkey is not a tribal state; we will retaliate in kind against what has been done,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tRelations between the countries have been plagued by disputes over US support for Kurdish fighters in Syria, and Turkey\u2019s thus far unsuccessful calls for Gulen\u2019s extradition.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tUS courts have also indicted a Turkish banker and a former minister for conspiring to violate US sanctions on Iran, as well as 15 of Erdogan\u2019s security guards for attacking peaceful protesters during his visit to Washington in May.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDid you ask permission from us when you dragged a general manager from our national bank into jail?\u201d Yildirim said. \u201cWhy are you harboring Gulen? Does this fit our alliance or friendship?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tYildirim said if the United States wanted to continue its alliance with Turkey it should stop support for YPG fighters battling Daesh in Syria. Turkey says the YPG is an extension of the outlawed PKK, which has fought a three-decade insurgency in southeast Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSiding with our enemies is not fitting our alliances,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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