Turkey Has No Deal With US On Limited Use Of Russian S-400 Missiles - Official
Faizan Hashmi Published March 02, 2021 | 11:52 PM
Turkey and the US are not talking about limiting the use of Ankara-purchased S-400 missiles in return for Washington severing support to Syrian Kurdish militias, a Turkish official said Tuesday
ANKARA (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 02nd March, 2021) Turkey and the US are not talking about limiting the use of Ankara-purchased S-400 missiles in return for Washington severing support to Syrian Kurdish militias, a Turkish official said Tuesday.
"We do not have a deal," presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told the Daily Sabah newspaper.
The US news agency Bloomberg cited unnamed Turkish officials as saying last month that Turkey was open to a consensus on the use of Russian air defense systems it purchased in 2019 if the US stopped strengthening Turkish-banned YPG militias near its border in Syria.
Kalin said that an interview in which Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar reportedly said that Turkey could make it so that S-400 installations were not operational all the time was misinterpreted.
The offer models what Greece did in 1997 when it relocated S-300 missiles bought by Cyprus to Crete and then to the mainland, following a backlash from Turkey, its NATO ally.
The US has repeatedly demanded that Turkey abandon S-400s in favor of its Patriot missiles, citing concerns about the Russian weapon's incompatibility with NATO air defense. Ankara has so far resisted, even in the face of sanctions.
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