Right now, there’s only the conviction. The sentencing is later. My guess is that Atilla is going to ask for a meeting and agree to provide serious info on the full extent of money-laundering...to get this reduced down to a two-year sentence at some VIP prison.
This opens up dozens of other Turk banking officials, and Trump might hold the data out to the EU and suggest that he’ll give them the info if they start some trade agreement. If they say no....then he’ll let the newspapers in the EU know that the EU is a pro-Erdogan group. Either way, he wins.
Here is what Turkey is not saying, parroting Erdogan’s earlier statement:
Turkey hits back at U.S. court verdict on Turkish banker
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/04/c_136872185.htm
ANKARA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) — Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag on Thursday slammed the U.S. court verdict in a case of Turkish banker, saying it is “a case of political conspiracy.”
Turkey is a fully independent and sovereign country. No other country can adjudicate Turkey and Turkey's institutions,” Bozdag stated on his Twitter account, adding this verdict was against international law as well.
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Basically, your law mean nothing to me. (Erdogan)