Turkish foreign minister on Saturday said his country is not afraid of any sanctions against it. “If Turkey were afraid of sanctions, we would not have started this operation [in northern Syria]. This is a vital national security issue for us,” Cavusoglu told Germany’s public international broadcaster Deutsche Welle. Reiterating that Turkey will respond tit-for-tat to possible U.S. sanctions, Cavusoglu stressed that no country has the ability to down Turkish ...