US trying to discredit Turkey for not submitting to ‘scenarios’: Erdoğan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Dec. 3 accused Washington of trying to discredit Turkey for “not submitting to scenarios,” in a reference to a New York trial of former Halkbank deputy general manager Hakan Atilla over evading U.S. sanctions on Iran.

“They [U.S.] are trying to punish, judge and discredit us because we did not submit to those scenarios. The scenario and the plot are obvious and they are doing this with their co-operators in our country. They are doing it with FETÖ [Fethullahist Terrorist Organization]. You will not be able to deceive us, you should know that,” Erdoğan said at the provincial congress of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the eastern province of Ağrı.