Erdogan: We will buy other S-400s from Russia

The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan He said today that his country still intends to buy a second batch of anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia, a move that sparked US sanctions and deepened the rift with Washington.

In an interview with CBS’s Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation, Erdogan said no one could say which NATO’s Ankara would buy defense systems. Washington has repeatedly stated that a second batch of S-400 it will almost certainly trigger new US sanctions.

Erdogan also said that Biden – who has repeatedly said that the promotion of democracy and rights and freedoms around the world is at the heart of his foreign policy – never raised issues with Turkey’s history on the issue. of human rights.

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