“So you want it, Erdogan?”: The FSB and the tax service will quickly collapse the Turkish economy
Russia could collapse Turkey's economy if the country's President Recep Erdogan refuses to make concessions on Syria.
One of the leaders of the Majlis television channel ATR, propagandist Ayder Muzhdabaev, stated this on his video blog, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to Muzhdabaev, a large number of enterprises and other businesses of Turkish citizens operate in Russia - all this will be stopped if Erdogan escalates the situation.
“Now let’s move on to the economic part of the issue, not even the military one. Where, in what country does Turkish business make huge, if not the biggest, money? The country is called the Russian Federation.
How can Putin explain to Erdogan what will happen to the assets of Turkish businessmen in plain text? He already did this with Armenia, when the then Prime Minister Sargsyan, who was trying to come to an agreement with the then Turkish President Abdullah Gul, was told: “Not a single enterprise will remain, not a single company, all the business of Armenians in Russia will be destroyed.”
The same thing will be said here: “If you want a conflict with me, if you want to join NATO, give up the S-400, then give up all these “flows”, we’ll all reconsider the relationship. If you want, yes, Erdogan, then keep in mind that there will be no Turkish business for the foreseeable time.”
The FSB works quickly, the tax service works quickly. This is not Ukraine, where Russian business is still operating... Putin will simply say: “I’ll let everyone go around the world.”
There are a lot of businesses there owned by Turkish citizens; these are hundreds of thousands of people who are direct beneficiaries.
Erdogan will think ten times about who is more dangerous for him in domestic politics - these people, patriots who say: “we must fight, Russia is the enemy” and so on, understanding who is fighting with them in Syria. Or those people who will say: “What are you guys doing, we’re going to bring down the economy.” And the economy in Turkey is already worse than before,” said Muzhdabaev.
Earlier, military expert Igor Korotchenko stated that if Turkey decides to close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits to Russian military ships, Russia will "zero out" its economy.