{"id":32932,"date":"2011-04-30T00:28:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T21:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=32932"},"modified":"2011-04-30T00:28:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T21:28:26","slug":"us-warns-turkey-against-financial-transactions-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/04\/30\/us-warns-turkey-against-financial-transactions-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US warns Turkey against financial transactions with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul &#8211; The United States has warned Turkey against conducting financial transactions with Iran and asked Ankara to halt the operations of an Iranian state-run bank in the country, local media reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>David Cohen, the US acting undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, on Wednesday urged Ankara to &#8216;isolate&#8217; Bank Mellat&#8217;s branches in Turkey, Milliyet newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen said during a visit to Turkey this week that the bank &#8211; which has three branches in Turkey &#8211; is facilitating financial transactions that support Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>The US, European Union and some South Asian countries have imposed restrictions on Bank Mellat&#8217;s operations.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has come under criticism in recent months for strengthening trade ties with Iran as Western nations attempt to isolate the country financially over disagreements about Tehran&#8217;s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey said earlier this year that its trade volume with Iran had reached 10 billion dollars annually and that it hoped to increase the figure to 30 billion.<\/p>\n<p>via US warns Turkey against financial transactions with Iran &#8211; Monsters and Critics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul &#8211; The United States has warned Turkey against conducting financial transactions with Iran and asked Ankara to halt the operations of an Iranian state-run bank in the country, local media reported Thursday. David Cohen, the US acting undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, on Wednesday urged Ankara to &#8216;isolate&#8217; Bank Mellat&#8217;s branches in Turkey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":32532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}