First attempt against the Turkish government was the 2016 failed coup, now its economic measures - Erdogan

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated in a video message in the occasion of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival that “an attack on the Turkish economy is no different from a strike against the flag”. 

The attack on our economy has absolutely no difference from attacks on our call to prayer and our flag, he said. accusing the US of triggered the economic crisis.

The goal is the same. The goal is to bring Turkey and the Turkish people to their knees, to take it prisoner.

He said that the first attempt against the Turkish government was with terrorists [the 2016 failed coup] whereas now a different method is being tried by the US using economic measures.

Erdoğan had repeated that Turkey saw the conspiracy plotted on Turkey in a statement over the weekend, vowing to walk tall against U.S. threats. 

In his message on Aug. 20, Erdoğan reminded that the Turkish people could avert all attacks thanks to their ability to act in unity in difficult times, recalling the coup attempt in 2016.

Our people are acting with the same merit today, he said.

We are a kind of a people who prefer to be beheaded instead of being chained around the neck, said the Turkish president.

‘They will see they are mistaken’
Erdoğan underlined that those who think they can make Turkey give up through the exchange rate will soon see they are mistaken.

If those who have failed to make Turkey give up through terror organizations and local treacherous gangs with all sorts of traps and tricks, think they can make Turkey give up through exchange rates, they will soon see they are mistaken. Our country, God willing, has enough power and ability to overcome this, he said.