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"The United States is intensifying its pressure on Turkey to lessen its trade and financial ties with Iran and comply with recently imposed sanctions against the country amid escalating tension in the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil transport route.
Ankara, which will Jan. 9 host William Burns, the No. 2 of the U.S. State Department, said, “unilateral sanctions were not binding Turkey and it should be exempted from these measures.” “Sanctions implemented by the U.S. and Europe [against Iran] are not binding for Turkey. Turkey has to be exempted from these sanctions,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was quoted as saying by the Japanese daily Nikkei over the weekend. Deputy Secretary of State Burns will meet with Davutoğlu and Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry Feridun Sinirlioğlu."
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