US VP Mike Pence warns Turkey against buying Russian air defences
WASHINGTON - US Vice-President Mike Pence warned Turkey on Wednesday against buying a Russian S-400 anti-missile system, keeping up pressure on the Nato ally to abandon a purchase that Washington views as a threat to US military equipment.
Turkey struck back promptly, with Turkish Vice-President Fuat Oktay issuing his own admonition on Twitter:"The United States must choose. Does it want to remain Turkey's ally or risk our friendship by joining forces with terrorists to undermine its Nato ally's defence against its enemies?" Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey has proposed to the United States that they form a working group to determine that Russian S-400 missile defence systems do not pose a threat to US or Nato military equipment.
The United States hopes to find a way out of the dispute by convincing Turkey to purchase the US-made Patriot air defence system, made by Raytheon. Turkey is also looking into a French-Italian system based on the SAMP-T missile systems. Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, in Washington for the 70th anniversary of the Western alliance and a meeting of its foreign ministers, told Reuters in an interview he had spoken several times with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan about the S-400 issue and had discussed it in a meeting with Trump on Tuesday.
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