Turkey warned the US that it will not allow itself to be turned into Ukraine
Washington is dissatisfied with Turkey's military-technical cooperation with the Russian Federation.
Kommersant writes about this in an article about the latest meeting of foreign ministers of NATO member countries held in the United States.
It is reported that the American representative to the alliance, Kay Bailey Hutchison, said on the sidelines of the meeting that NATO is extremely dissatisfied with Ankara’s decision to purchase S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia.
“The United States is very concerned about the possibility of Turkey possessing both the S-400 and the F-35,” Hutchison said, adding that she fears that information about American aircraft will leak to the Russians.
"I'm not saying Turkey can't be trusted, but I'm saying we're taking a risk with our system, what is probably our most strategically important technology," NATO Europe commander Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti said in a statement. hope that Ankara will refuse to purchase the S-400 from Moscow.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu reacted extremely sharply to these statements and called the agreement on the supply of S-400 a “completed deal” and a “resolved issue.”
“Neither the West nor Russia should force us to choose between them... They did this to Ukraine, and look what happened,” Cavusoglu said.
According to him, in a conversation between the presidents of Turkey and the United States, Donald Trump expressed regret that the administration of his predecessor Barack Obama was unable to sell Turkey American Patriot systems instead of the S-400.
The head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry also said that the new American administration offered Patriot to Ankara, but the Turkish leadership already considered the United States an unreliable partner and preferred Russian systems.
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