Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned that bilateral legal accords with the United States were “losing validity”, lashing out at Washington over the conviction of a Turkish banker in a US trial. A jury in a US federal court on Wednesday convicted an executive of Turkey’s majority state-owned Halkbank for evading Iran sanctions in a case Erdogan has cast as a political attack against his government. “The United States should excuse us, but the laws in our bilateral ties and the bilateral accords between us are losing their validity. Zarrab said Erdogan personally authorized two Turkish banks to join the scheme when he was prime minister. “The United States is carrying out … a chain of plots, and these are not just legal but also economic plots,” Erdogan said at the news conference.

Source: Egypt Independent January 05, 2018 07:30 UTC