In a tweet, Trump said he had “just authorized a doubling” of tariffs against Turkey, upping those on aluminum to 20 per cent and steel to 50 per cent. U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaks with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of the opening ceremony of the NATO summit its headquarters in Brussels in July. Without mentioning Trump by name, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, denounced the U.S. in a speech Friday in the Black Sea town of Rize. “Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!” Trump tweeted. Turkey is such a complicated and strategically located country, so if something big happens in Turkey it has consequences.”Read more about:

Source: thestar August 11, 2018 00:56 UTC