From the EO in this regard, any legal witz who know whether this can mean US citizens or just Turks?
Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:
(i) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:
(A) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged in, or attempted to engage in, any of the following in or in relation to Syria:
(1) actions or policies that further threaten the peace, security, stability, or territorial integrity of Syria; or
(2) the commission of serious human rights abuse;
(B) to be a current or former official of the Government of Turkey;
(C) to be any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality of the Government of Turkey;
(D) to operate in such sectors of the Turkish economy as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State;
(E) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or
(F) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.
I’m not even remotely a legal expert, but I can read. And I see nothing in the words I read to rule out US citizens.
In fact, in many ways it looks to me that this is a MUCH bigger threat for US citizens than foreigners. How many foreigners involved would have property in the US? (Some DS “elites” maybe.) Most people it refers to would be outside the US and it would be irrelevant. That would be like saying if you are in my house, I’ll arrest you. How many of you have been to my house? (Hint: zero)
All important, but I think the key parts are E & F. JMO.
I’d still like to see what legal beagles have to say.
It means what it says. “Anybody” means anybody. The SOTreasury (FBI) and SOState have the means to so designate anybody assisting or profiting off Turkey.
Bringing in bonds or bags of cash, or Nuclear material, qualifies as property. Whether it is John KERRY or Donald Trump, Jr., they “ain’t” coming back in to the US.