Erdogan Plea to WTO in Trade Row With Russia ‘Farcical and Tragic’

‘A decree from Russian President Vladimir Putin, which entered into force on January 1, 2016, included a ban on the employment of Turkish citizens by Russian employers, a food import ban on certain categories of products, as well as on charter flights in both directions.

“Turkey’s behavior under Erdogan is not short of farcical — farcical and tragic all at once, one would have to say,” veteran author and Middle East affairs analyst Patrick Smyth said in an interview.

“[Turkey] has been in contravention of numerous international laws and norms for years. I’m thinking of the poison gas supplied to Syrian extremists to frame [President Bashar] Assad in August 2013, and the ongoing traffic of weapons and extremists across its border into Syria,” Smyth stated.’

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