I'm gonna defend our Nigerian friend a bit here and then draw different conclusions. The west is not happy with Erdogan, you can see this in the way they ordered their lackeys in the Gulen movement to attack them when Erdogan didn't back off from helping Iran circumvent sanctions (along with a slew of other reasons which convinced Washington Erdogan is no longer a good boy), first a la Lula in 2013 corruption scandal, second a la Maduro in 2016 coup attempt. But would the Empire stop at that? No, they have infinite resources and practically think they're infallible. So slowly but surely you bring up the heat by giving the hint to rating agencies to start downgrading the country's debt rating and then you bring in money to short the currency in Forex; anybody looking from afar will see this and gander a guess that a crisis is brewing and take their money out and it doesn't help when you have a government which is through no good of its own, riddled with mismanagement and corruption reinforcing the already bad situation. This has happened to many geopolitical naughty boys and the consistent response by these nations has been to get into paranoia mode and start seeing ghosts even where there is none, jailing any naysayers suspecting them of having foreign overlords, starting to doubt orthodox economic policies and policy recommendation by big firms and hedge funds. This "everybody is out there to get me" attitude then leads to even more instability and chaos.
Now, rational actors can foresee certain responses to geopolitical actions they take against the Empire and can ameliorate them through a series of prophylactic actions a la Russia in the 7 years leading up to the war, or China after the 1999 bombing of their embassy in Belgrade, or leading up to the 2021 Huawei ban. Irrational actors cannot foresee anything and get tangled up more in their own mess than whatever net the Empire was trying to cast. The economic woes of Turkey are mainly due to this and other fundamental problems created by AKP governemnt even before the 2013 falling out with the U.S.
U.S. was obviously hoping for a currency crash for Russia in the aftermath of sanctions, which happened in the short-term, then only to recover to all-time highs later. This doesn't mean the sanctions didn't work, but they worked much less than expected and much slower. And more importantly they were literal sanctions, something U.S. never enacted against Turkey because there was no adequate rationalization for it.
So yes, U.S. has tried to mess with Erdogan and his regime through economic manipulation. But no, Turkey's economic woes are not due to this, or not at least as a main factor. If you borrow credit with 10% from shady actors instead of 3% from IMF or other major banks, because you cannot get yourself to be transparent about how you're gonna spend it or enact anti-laundry laws as a guarantee, that's not on U.S. When you put the most incompetent people in charge of the economy and then ignore even those incompetent people to enact heterodox policies and economic trial and error in times of turmoil, that's just on you. AKP was lucky to come to power during 2000-2008 when excess money in the first world was so much that they were just searching for places to put their excess money to and Turkey became one destination due to Erdogan being enough of a good boy to help as much as it could with the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions and chastise those in parliament who voted against it, and not bring up Eastern Mediterranean against EU claims, and jail whoever did in Ergenekon and Balyoz. This flood of investment then was put into some of the worst places you could imagine but it was so much that it still lead to an increase in prosperity and infrastructure projects as there was still enough legal trust in the Turkish jurisprudence due to AKP-Gulen alliance being promoted as a reformist brand of Islam that was democratic, unlike that other icky kind of terrorists which U.S. and the west had nothing to do with (wink wink). After that money dried up since 2008/09 financial crisis, since then Turkey's problems have been apparent to anyone who has been looking. The share of value added content in Turkey's exports is like 3.5%; the lowly neighbor Greece is 11%. Turkey has one of the highest brain drain rates in the world. Some of the lowest papers published per university among OECD nations. And there has been minimal effort to specialize universities based on local industry and link factories and faculties. None of these structural problems were brought upon Turkey in smoke-filled rooms in Washington.
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