Posted on 05/06/2018 5:57:32 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
“If the United States imposes sanctions on us or takes such a step, Turkey will absolutely retaliate,” Cavusoglu said. “What needs to be done is the U.S. needs to let go of this.”
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Turkey plans to buy more than 100 of Lockheed Martin’s (LMT.N) F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets, and is also in talks with Washington over the purchase of Patriot missiles.
Turkey signed an agreement with Russia in December to buy S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries as part of Ankara’s plans to boost its defense capabilities amid threats from Kurdish and Islamist militants at home and conflicts across its borders in Syria and Iraq.
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Cavusoglu said he would visit the United States next week to meet Pompeo, but added a specific date had not been set yet.
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Headshake.
Suggest you read the complete article at the link for clarity. Hard to summarize.
They’re on the wrong side of the negotiating table to be making such proclamations. “Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.”
Turkey - out of NATO, and it’s not sudden but has been building to this for a long time, beginning with the 1st installation of an Erdogan government determined to be a new fundamentalist caliphate in the Middle East. Turkey no longer functions as a NATO partner. It gets all the advantages of the mutual defense pact while it goes off on its own in foreign, and military strategy.
True that.
Our enemy indeed.
Ah yes..............
Arming our Islamic enemy with new planes.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
True. Once he purged the General Staff, it was all over. Too bad. I enjoyed my time in Izmir, but no way would I want to go back now.
“S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries as part of Ankara’s plans to boost its defense capabilities amid threats from Kurdish and Islamist militants at home”
What a bunch of BS. S-400s are a threat to us.
What? No more Turkish rugs??
Turkey, the enemy within.
Turkey has not been our friend for a while. We need to dump them and find some other friendly country to park our planes.
It’s a puzzle why Turkey has such leverage.
Indeed, Kurds and Jihadi do not have air forces.
“SELL ME GUNS OR I RETALIATE”... What a moron.
What....they won’t sell us apricots or lousy cheap cotton shirts in Walmart?
Turkey will just sell the F-35s to Russia and China
If POTUS allows the sale of the Patriot and the F-35 to Islamist Turkey, he is certifiably crazy.
Therefore I deduce this will not occur.
Prior agreements be damned.
Correct.
I think Turkey is about to go for a short ride with Putin. In the end it will not play out well.
A real loss? smile
Headshake.
Yes, we do.
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