Turkey’s Erdogan tells Trump he may ALSO purchase US Patriot missiles regardless of row over Russian S-400s

Turkey is eager about shopping for US-made Patriot missiles, if Washington can provide deal, says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – this regardless of US sanctions on its NATO ally for getting the Russian S-400 air protection programs.

Erdogan stated he introduced up the deal in a telephone name with US President Donald Trump, and can talk about it in particular person on the sidelines of the UN Basic Meeting later this month.

“I stated it doesn’t matter what package deal of … S-400s we get, we will purchase from you a certain quantity of Patriots,” Erdogan instructed Reuters on Friday. “However I stated we have now to see situations that not less than match as much as the S-400s.”

He [Trump] stated: ‘Are you critical?’ I stated: ‘Sure.’

Ankara had gone ahead with shopping for S-400 air protection programs from Russia, ignoring the warnings, pleas and even threats from Washington. The primary deliveries had been made in July, and resulted in Turkey being suspended from the F-35 fighter program. 

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Erdogan appeared assured that he may attraction Trump into not escalating the row any additional, nonetheless, saying that they had “a distinct form of belief.” 

“In my view a rustic just like the USA is not going to wish to harm its ally Turkey any extra. This isn’t rational habits,” Erdogan instructed the company on the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul.

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Simply two weeks in the past, Erdogan was in Moscow, bonding with Russian President Vladimir Putin over ice cream and telling Turkish reporters that Ankara may purchase Russian fighter jets if the US endured in denying it entry to the F-35.

Erdogan is about to fulfill Putin once more on Monday, on the trilateral summit with Iran to debate the state of affairs in Syria.

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