As options narrow on Syria, Trump prepares to drop sanctions hammer on Turkey

and many members of Congress, including Democrats, about imposing powerful Sanctions on Turkey. Treasury is ready to go, additional legislation may be sought. There is great consensus on this. Turkey has asked that it not be done. Stay tuned!A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that sanctions were"being worked out at all levels of the government for rollout."

Trump's decision, rooted in his long-stated aim to get the United States out of"endless wars," has prompted bipartisan concerns that it opens the door to the revival of Islamic State. Representatives Eliot Engel, the Democratic chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, and Mike McCaul, the committee's senior Republican, introduced a bill last Friday that would sanction Turkish officials involved in the Syria operation and banks involved with Turkey's defence sector until Turkey ends military operations in Syria.

The United States has successfully gone after Turkey with sanctions and tariffs before, hitting Ankara last year to pressure authorities to return an American pastor on trial for terrorism charges. The United States is looking into reports that a Kurdish politician and captured Kurdish fighters were killed in northeastern Syria amid Turkey's offensive, a State Department spokesman told Reuters, adding that Washington found the reports disturbing.

Stein said it would be the Syrian government or Russia, not American sanctions, that could stop the Turkish operation.

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