Turkey withdrew all its gold from the United States. This was due to the cooling in relations between the countries recently.

An example of Turkey can be followed by other countries. The Central Bank of Turkey kept in the US Federal Reserve as of the end of 2016. 28 thousand. 689 kg of precious metal, the portal Haber reports with reference to the regulator's reports. However, in the documents for 2017 g.

opposite the storehouses of the Federal Reserve there are dashes. Thus, all the gold reserves of Turkey, stored in the States, was withdrawn from the country. According to the Turkish publication, the "American" gold was partially returned to Turkey, in part - sent for storage to Europe, to the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland. The total volume of the gold reserve of Ankara is 564.6 tons. Its value at current gold prices is estimated at more than $ 20 billion. This is not the only US loss. Recently, the largest private banks of Turkey have withdrawn their gold reserves from abroad (including from America). They responded to the call of the country's President Recep Erdogan "get rid of the pressure of the exchange rate and use gold against the dollar". A total of 220 tons of gold were returned from abroad. The reasons for the return of gold to the central bank of the country did not sound, but it is quite obvious that this is due to the aggravation of relations between Washington and Ankara. During the conflict in Syria, the US was supported by the Self-Defense Forces of the Syrian Kurds, whom Turkey considers a terrorist group associated with the Kurdistan Workers Party banned in the country. The oil was poured by the arrest in the US of two Turkish businessmen, whom Washington convicted in order to carry out multimillion-dollar transactions in favor of Iran in circumvention of sanctions. The Turks accuse the United States of concealing the preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan accused of organizing a military mutiny in the summer of 2016. Finally, Americans are strongly annoyed by Turkey's decision to purchase S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems from the Russian Federation, despite the fact that the country is a member of NATO. The services of the US Federal Reserve may be rejected by other countries. The case with Turkey was not the first of its kind. It is noteworthy that gold from the US is withdrawn from countries that are considered to be allies of Washington. So, in December 2016 g. it became known that Germany took 200 tons of metal from American storage facilities. At the same time, the withdrawal of stocks was accompanied by a scandal:

the financial authorities of the FRG had suspicions that American banks lying in New York's basement could use gold for operations in the market, which is a gross violation of agreements concluded between countries. Let's add that Russia is one of the world leaders in gold reserves. Our country occupies the fifth place in terms of precious metal in state storages. As of January of this year, the RF gold reserve was 1,857 thousand. tons. It is stored in Moscow and St. Petersburg;.

services of foreign storage facilities our country does not use.