Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called a political decision on the lowering of S & P’s rating of Turkey – Kommersant

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called a political decision of the international rating agency Standard & amp; Poor`s (S & amp; P) to lower long-term and short-term sovereign rating of the country after the coup attempt. Recall, on Wednesday, S & amp; P downgraded the long-term and short-term sovereign rating of Turkey in foreign currency to «BB / B» to «BB + / B», the negative outlook on the ratings.

«This is an organization that has done such actions in the past. We said that we do not want to be associated with them, and we stop these connections. Now they have announced a political solution in their own opinion, based on conscientious objection. So they decided that it can reduce the investment in Turkey “, – Erdogan said in an address to the nation. According to the Turkish leader, the downgrade will not change the current situation in the economy, and the “investment will continue”, reports “RIA Novosti»

. Recall that in Turkey after the mass arrests and layoffs in the power

structures and the introduction of the ban on travel abroad for civil servants subject to large-scale cleansing of educational and scientific institutions, of which tens of thousands of employees laid off. Pulling the plug is held under the slogan of struggle against the external conspiracy, supposedly living in the US-inspired Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen. Thus, the country finally parted with the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who laid the democratic foundations of the modern Turkish state.

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