{"id":11844,"date":"2018-08-17T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11844"},"modified":"2018-08-17T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:22:49","slug":"turkey-will-respond-if-us-imposes-more-sanctions-trade-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11844","title":{"rendered":"Turkey will respond if US imposes more sanctions \u2014 trade minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1357876\/middle-east\" readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nISTANBUL: Turkey on Friday threatened to respond if the United States levied further sanctions over the detention of an American pastor, which has sparked a diplomatic standoff and battered the Turkish currency.<br \/>\u201cWe\u2019ve already responded based on the World Trade Organization rules and will continue to do so,\u201d Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency.<br \/>Washington warned on Thursday that it would impose more sanctions unless pastor Andrew Brunson, described by US President Donald Trump as a \u201chostage,\u201d was released.<br \/>Brunson\u2019s detention since October 2016 on terror-related charges has soured relations between the two NATO allies, sending the Turkish lira into a tailspin.<br \/>The lira, which earlier this week traded at well over seven to the dollar, was at 5.8 against the dollar and 6.7 against euro on Friday.<br \/>Last week, Trump tweeted that his administration was doubling aluminum and steel tariffs for Turkey, and in response Ankara sharply hiked tariffs on some US products.<br \/>US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested Thursday the next spiral of tit-for-tat sanctions was coming soon, in a sign of a deepening spat.<br \/>Trump prefaced Mnuchin\u2019s remarks by saying that Turkey had not been a very good friend to America.<br \/>Referring to Brunson, Trump said: \u201cThey have a great Christian pastor there, he\u2019s a very innocent man.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL: Turkey on Friday threatened to respond if the United States levied further sanctions over the detention of an American pastor, which has sparked a diplomatic standoff and battered the Turkish currency.\u201cWe\u2019ve already responded based on the World Trade Organization rules and will continue to do so,\u201d Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan was quoted as saying&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11844","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\/11844","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=11844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}