{"id":42592,"date":"2019-01-11T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42592"},"modified":"2019-01-11T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:01:11","slug":"turkish-lira-tumbles-as-tanks-amass-along-syrian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42592","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Lira Tumbles As Tanks Amass Along Syrian Border"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkish Lira Tumbles As Tanks Amass Along Syrian Border<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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After an already painful start for the\u00a0Turkish lira this year, shedding more than 3.5% of its value against the dollar during the first three days of 2019 when it flash crashed after Mrs Watanabe puked on the carry trade after Apple shockingly guided lower, and after early this week the lira slid lower amid renewed tensions between the US and Turkey following hopes that the feuding NATO members might finally be setting aside their differences, dashed after\u00a0Bolton’s snub heard round the world<\/a> by President Erdogan, the lira is now tumbling on fears of further military escalation in Syria.<\/p>\n

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On Friday Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported Turkey has deployed tanks on the border along Syria’s Idlib province<\/strong>. Turkey’s defense minister further announced preparations for an invasion of Syrian Kurdish enclaves east of the Euphrates “continues intensely”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“We have\u00a0Manbij,\u00a0and the east of\u00a0Euphrates\u00a0ahead. Necessary planning was made regarding this. Our preparation continues intensely,” Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said while inspecting troops near the border with Syria, according to Anadolu.<\/p>\n

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The uncertainty and fears of another major flare-up following last year’s ‘Operation Olive Branch’ sent the lira diving to session lows, and is approaching levels last seen at the start of November.<\/p>\n

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Turkey has billed its plans as a “counter terror” op, with the defense minister noting dubiously, “We have no problems with our Kurdish brothers, Arab brothers in Syria, Turkmens and other ethnic and religious groups. Our only targets are terrorists Daesh and PKK\/YPG.”<\/p>\n

Turkey has for months stated plans to eradicate the\u00a0presence of the Kurdish YPG, which it considers a terror extension of the outlawed PKK, from near Turkey’s borders.<\/p>\n

The question is how will the US (and Israel\/Iran\/Russia) respond once Turkey follows though with the action so many had been expecting and invades, again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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