It was a remarkable, historic first: Early this week, the United States imposed sanctions on Turkey, a country which is not only a long-standing member of the Nato military alliance in Europe, but also hosts American nuclear weapons on its soil.
And if this was not enough, the European Union also slapped its own sanctions on Turkey, a country which, at least formally, has been an EU candidate member for more than half a century.
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