U.S. and Turkey has halted visitor visas since the diplomatic spat has escalated.
Let me inform you that CNN WORLD NEWS the U.S. and Turkey has suspended visa services for
citizens who want to visit the other country. The reason is a sharp escalation
of the diplomatic spat that has sent lira down more that 6 percent against U.S.
dollar.
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this moves followed the 4 October arrest of a Turkish national who works at
U.S. consulates in Istanbul for alleged coup attempt against president senator corker trump Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Hours after the Trump administration
halted visa services in Turkey on Sunday, Turkey government responded in kind,
even repeating verbatim much of the U.S. statement.
Incident. Recent
events had forced both sides to reassess the commitment of the other of the
security of mission facilities and personnel. Only two weeks ago, U.S.
president Donald Trump had heaped praises of Turkish president when they had
met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly and Trump said that
the Turkish leader is becoming a friend of mine and he is frankly getting high
marks.
The U.S. government on Thursday has called charges
against the man as wholly without merit and has said that U.S. was deeply
disturbed by the arrest and by HURRICANENATE MAKES LANDFALL leaks from Turkish government sources seems to aim at
trying the employee in the media rather than a court of law.
Turkey has responded saying that the arrested Turkish
citizen was part of the U.S. consulates staff but a local employee. The outcome
of the entire incident is that the lira was
at 3.7323 per dollar as of 10.37 am in Singapore on Monday, and it went down
more than 3 percent from Fridays close and touched as low as 3.8533. The
currency is heading for a seventh day of decline, and this is the longest
stretch since May 2016.
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