Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced his intention to take actions in response to the US decision with respect to raising customs duties on metals and aluminum.

“Now they [the US] are attempting to carry out by finances what they [the US] couldn’t achieve [in Turkey] by way of provocations and coup [attempt]; this is called ‘economic war.’ We have realized your [the US] game, and we will take steps [against it],” Erdoğan stressed, in particular, in his remarks Sunday in Trabzon town, reported Russian News Agency TASS. “We will not surrender. You are attacking us with dollars; in that case, we will find other ways to implement our tasks.”