United States threatens Turkey with 'very significant' sanctions

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that President Donald Trump had authorized U.S. officials to draft "very significant" new sanctions to target Turkey after it launched an offensive in northeast Syria, adding that banks were being notified.

Mnuchin said the United States was not activating the sanctions at this time but would do so if necessary.

"We are putting financial institutions on notice that they should be careful and that there could be sanctions," Mnuchin said.

"These are very powerful sanctions. We hope we don't have to use them, but we can shut down the Turkish economy if we need to," Mnuchin said.

Mnuchin said Trump was concerned about Turkey's potential targeting of civilians and wants to make clear that Turkey cannot "allow even a single ISIS fighter to escape."

(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Makini Brice and Jan Wolfe; Editing by Mary Milliken, Susan Heavey and Cynthia Osterman)

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