The United States pressures Turkey on relations with Russia

ANKARA – US officials flew to Ankara this week to pressure Turkish officials and business leaders to comply with Washington’s anti-Russian sanctions.

Bloomberg reported this on Wednesday (10/19/2022). With Turkey taking a neutral stance on the conflict in Ukraine, the United States has issued several warnings to the country.

“Led by US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, Elizabeth Rosenberg, the US delegation met with the governor of the Turkish central bank and business groups in Ankara and Istanbul earlier this week,” the report states.

“Rosenberg met with local finance officials for private talks on Wednesday,” a Bloomberg source said.

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Rosenberg was previously a researcher at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank heavily funded by the arms industry.

While working on the Treasury during the Barack Obama administration, he drafted sanctions against Iran, Libya and Syria.

The Treasury Department did not comment on the content of Rosenberg’s talks, nor on Bloomberg’s sources.

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However, US officials have previously expressed displeasure over Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s refusal to sanction Russia for its military operations in Ukraine.