Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the U.S. is behaving like “wild wolves” and pledged that his country would negotiate to achieve non-dollar trade with Russia and other countries.
Speaking at a business forum in Kyrgyzstan on Sunday, Erdogan delivered a rebuke to the U.S., which has slapped sanctions on both Turkey and Russia.
“America behaves like wild wolves. Don’t believe them,” Erdogan said, adding that the U.S. dollar “only damages us,” according to Agence France-Presse.
The Trump administration has implemented tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum amid the U.S. push for the release of Andrew Brunson, a 50-year-old evangelical Christian pastor from North Carolina detained in Turkey for nearly two years.
President Trump imposed new sanctions on Russia last month in response to the use of a chemical weapon in an assassination attempt that took place on British soil.
