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MOSCOW — Moscow’s deal with Ankara, under which Russia would supply S-400 missile defense systems to Turkey, envisages a partial handover of technologies, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday, the Interfax news agency reported. ...
Turkey has allegedly prohibited the jihadist rebels in northern Syria from using anti-aircraft missiles against Russian jets, the news site Avia.Pro reported. According to the Russian publication, the Turkish Armed Forces handed over portable anti-aircraft missile ...
BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN On June 6, Patrick Shanahan, Acting Defense Secretary of the United States, sent a harsh letter to his counterpart, Hulusi Akar, Turkey’s Minister of Defense. Shanahan threatened to end Turkey’s participation in ...
The 70-year-old alliance between the United States and Turkey is heading for its most turbulent period in decades. Congress voted this past week on legislation to punish Ankara for its planned acquisition of the Russian-made ...
Erdogan faces a dilemma: surrender to US diktats or align with Russia, China and Iran As a new bipolar world order emerges pitting the United States and its Western allies against Russia and China’s growing ...
While Donald Trump’s Jacksonian beliefs make him the current global disruptor-in-chief, in terms of America’s Middle East policy they paradoxically drag him back toward Washington’s traditional post-1979 stance in the region. In complete contradiction to ...
The US and Turkey – one of Washington’s key Nato allies – appear to be on a collision course this summer. Turkey insists it will go ahead with the purchase of an advanced Russian S-400 ...
INTIMIDATING WEAKER COUNTRIES is normal behavior for great powers. For most of the 20th century, the United States was strong enough to keep allies in line and rivals at bay. Today, however, other countries are ...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he addresses a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, May 30, 2019. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool) Turkey faces a momentous choice this summer between an unreliable alliance ...
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, April 3, 2018. Reuters Turkey has vowed to forge ahead with its acquisition of Russia’s S-400 air-defense system, despite objections ...