US embassy stresses friendship with Turkey despite tensions

“The United States continues to be a firm friend and ally of Turkey despite current tensions. Our countries have a vibrant economic relation,” the embassy said in a tweet on Aug. 7, Hurriyet daily reported.
The embassy also refuted claims reported by a number of media outlets in Turkey suggesting that an “American official” predicted that a U.S. dollar would soon be equal to 7 Turkish Liras.
“This is a fabricated, baseless lie,” the embassy said in another tweet.
It was earlier reported that Turkey and the U.S. reached a preliminary agreement after the crisis over the arrest of pastor Andrew Brunson that lead the U.S. to slap sanctionson Turkey.
Brunson, who led a Protestant church in the Aegean city of Izmir, is at the center of one of the most serious crises in relations between the NATO allies in years.
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