Patriots

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Turkey asks US to deploy Patriots on border to counter Syrian gov’t attacks: Bloomberg

February 20, 2020

Turkey has asked the US to deploy two Patriot missile-defense batteries on its southern border to free it to punish any future attacks by Syrian troops...

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Turkey defies US sanctions threat, says will keep Russian defense system: report

December 26, 2019

Turkey has dug into its refusal to abandon its new Russian missile defense system, saying it will not bow to the threat of crippling US sanctions...

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Erdoğan: US position on S-400 purchase an infringement of Turkey’s sovereign rights

November 14, 2019

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Washington was not right to propose that Ankara get rid of the Russian S-400 missile defense system it purchased, calling it...

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Erdoğan says personal bond with Trump can overcome Russian S-400 crisis: report

September 14, 2019

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he will discuss buying US Patriot missiles with President Donald Trump this month, saying his personal bond with...

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Lack of solution to Ankara’s Russian missile purchase not good for NATO, US, Turkey

May 6, 2019

NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg on Monday said the lack of a solution in the crisis between the US and Turkey regarding Ankara’s purchase of a...

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Turkey may purchase additional Russian S-400s if cannot buy Patriots: minister

April 10, 2019

Turkey may expand its planned purchase of a Russian air defense system if it cannot buy a US Patriot missile defense system, and it will also...

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Acting Pentagon chief: We need Turkey to buy Patriots

March 27, 2019

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Tuesday that he wanted NATO ally Turkey to remain in the F-35 fighter jet program but added that...

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Turkish FM says negotiation to buy Patriots from US has begun

March 3, 2019

Ankara and Washington began negotiating Turkey’s purchase of a Patriot missile defense system from the US, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Friday...

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