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The US Treasury's move comes after the US Congress approved the NDAA, mandating the Trump administration to sanction Ankara.

With the bill passed by Congress with a "super majority," the US President now has to sanction Turkey in line with the CAATSA.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has argued that TurkStream and Nord Stream 2 pipeline projects are “not commercial projects, but Kremlin’s key tools to exploit and expand European dependence on Russian energy supplies.”