Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses people demonstrating against the failed military coup attempt in Turkey, via video conferencing at the Turkish Presidency in Ankara, Turkey on July 24, 2016; President Donald Trump attends a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 7, 2017. (Yasin Bulbul/AFP/Getty Images;
After announcing a troop pullback in Syria, President Donald Trump on Oct. 7 warned that if Turkey does anything untoward, he will “totally destroy and obliterate the economy of Turkey.”
“As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!),” Trump wrote on Twitter.
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