Washington Warns Turkey on Military Exports to Russia, Britain Braces for Riots, and Mideast Tensions Soar
Press Review: It’s August and the Olympics are on, but everybody seems more than a little anxious — for good reason.

Two-faced Turkey? It wouldn’t be the first time, but now Washington is calling out Ankara over some of its duplicitous commercial dealings with Moscow. The Secretary of Commerce, Matthew Axelrod, has recently met with Turkish officials at Ankara and Istanbul, the Financial Times reports, and warned that Turkey will face “consequences” if it does not curtail exports of American technology to Russia that could have military uses.
Washington believes that Western electronics, otherwise proscribed by sanctions, are entering Russia through Turkey. The Department of Commerce already requires American companies to obtain permission in order to sell “sensitive components” to 18 Turkish companies, and that list could be expanded.
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