Trump and Erdoğan: cut from the same populist cloth

Barry Eichengreen compares the respective strongmen of the US and Turkey

Donald Trump and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are at loggerheads. Trump has applied his steel and aluminium tariffs to $1.8 billion of Turkish products, leading Ankara to retaliate with duties on a corresponding quantity of US exports and, in turn, prompting US trade representative Robert Lighthizer to launch a review of Turkey’s duty-free access to US markets. Trump has demanded that Turkey free the detained evangelical Christian pastor Andrew Brunson, while Erdoğan has long insisted

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