Turkey considers unacceptable demands of other countries not to use S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems acquired from Russia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlyut Chavushoglu said to Journalists during the visit to Athens.
“C-400 will be under our control 100%. We sent our technical specialists to Russia for training, and the Russian military experts will not be in Turkey. In this regard, the requirements of other countries” do not use “C-400 are unacceptable “,” said the Turkish minister, reports TASS with reference to TRT TV channel.
On May 28, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendi Sherman in an interview with CNN Türk TV channel reported that the United States presented Turkey an alternative on the topic of acquiring Ankara Russian anti-aircraft missile systems C-400. However, she did not specify which alternative it is about.
In March, the US Ambassador to Turkey David Sutterfield said that the only way Ankara was a way to solve disagreements with Washington is to abandon Russian SPC. However, the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry Mevlyut Chavushoglu in a conversation with the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stated that the question of the acquisition of Turkey Russian air defense systems C-400 is completely closed.