US EditionErdogan’s S-400 Trouble Was of His Own Making
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Erdogan’s S-400 Trouble Was of His Own Making
It takes a special kind of leader to spend $2.5 billion on a weapons system, never use it, alienate his most important allies, get kicked out of the world’s most advanced fighter jet program, endure years of sanctions — and then ask the seller for a refund. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Yet here we are. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the possibility of returning Russia’s S-400 air defense system during his meeting with Vladimi…
Ankara is increasingly warning of a desire to re-establish cooperation with the United States.
Turkey could soon return part of its S‐400 defence systems to Russia in order to regain its place in the US F‐35 fighter aircraft program, which it had been excluded from after the purchase of these missiles in 2017. This initiative marks a strong political gesture by Ankara to improve its relations with Washington and NATO. The S‐400, Russian air defence systems considered incompatible with NATO technologies, had led to the suspension of Turkis…
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