{"id":11472,"date":"2018-08-14T09:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T09:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11472"},"modified":"2018-08-14T09:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T09:22:54","slug":"erdogan-accuses-us-of-seeking-to-stab-turkey-in-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11472","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan accuses US of seeking to stab Turkey \u2018in the back\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1356016\/middle-east\" readability=\"42\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\nANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused the US of seeking to stab Turkey \u201cin the back\u201d over a diplomatic row sparked by the detention of an American pastor that has sent the lira into a tailspin.<br \/>\u201cYou act on one side as a strategic partner but on the other you fire bullets into the foot of your strategic partner,\u201d Erdogan told a conference in the capital Ankara.<br \/>\u201cWe are together in NATO and then you seek to stab your strategic partner in the back. Can such a thing be accepted?\u201d Erdogan asked.<br \/>Turkey and the US, two NATO allies, have been locked in bitter disputes over a string of issues from a pastor\u2019s detention on terror charges to the war in Syria. The dispute has severely hit the Turkish currency which has been in free fall since Friday.<br \/>Erdogan said Turkey was facing an \u201ceconomic siege,\u201d slamming the currency movements as an \u201cattack against our country.\u201d<br \/>US President Donald Trump said Friday he had doubled steel and aluminum tariffs on Turkey.<br \/>But Erdogan advised Turks not to worry.<br \/>\u201cIt is not at all like we sank and we are finished. The dynamics of the Turkish economy are solid, strong and sound and will continue to be so.\u201d<br \/>Erdogan also blasted the \u201ceconomic terror\u201d on social media, vowing that the judiciary had taken necessary measures to punish so-called speculators.<br \/>The Interior Ministry launched an investigation into 346 social media accounts on grounds of \u201cprovocative sharings on social media,\u201d the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused the US of seeking to stab Turkey \u201cin the back\u201d over a diplomatic row sparked by the detention of an American pastor that has sent the lira into a tailspin.\u201cYou act on one side as a strategic partner but on the other you fire bullets into the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}