Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 astatine U.N. headquarters. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 astatine U.N. headquarters. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP)

ISTANBUL – Turkey’s president has said helium would see buying a 2nd Russian rocket strategy successful defiance of beardown objections by the United States.

In an interrogation with American broadcaster CBS News, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would person to determine its defence systems connected its own.

Speaking to analogous Margaret Brennan successful New York this past week, Erdogan explained that Turkey wasn't fixed the enactment to bargain American-made Patriot missiles and the U.S. hadn't delivered F-35 stealth jets contempt a outgo of $1.4 billion. Erdogan's comments came successful excerpts released successful beforehand of the afloat interrogation being broadcast Sunday.

NATO subordinate Turkey was kicked retired of the F-35 programme and defence officials were sanctioned aft it bought the Russian-made S-400 rocket defence system. The U.S. powerfully objects to the usage of Russian systems wrong NATO and says it poses a menace to the F-35s. Turkey maintains the S-400s could beryllium utilized independently without being integrated into NATO systems and truthful airs nary risk.

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The U.S. besides sanctioned Turkey successful 2020 for its acquisition nether a 2017 instrumentality aimed astatine pushing backmost Russian influence. The determination was the archetypal clip that the law, known arsenic CAATSA, was utilized to penalize a U.S. ally.

But Erdogan has remained defiant. “Of course, of course, yes,” Erdogan said aft stating Turkey would marque its ain defence choices, successful effect to Brennan’s question connected whether Turkey would bargain much S-400s.

The contented is 1 of respective sticking points successful Turkish-American relations that besides see U.S. enactment for Syrian Kurdish fighters who Turkey considers terrorists, and the continued U.S. residency of a Muslim cleric accused of plotting the failed coup effort against Erdogan’s authorities successful 2016.

Erdogan is scheduled to conscionable Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Sept. 29.

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