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Turkey's S-400 purchase not a message to NATO
[Al Jazeera] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's decision to buy an advanced missile defence system from Russia is not aimed at sending any political messages, a Ottoman Turkish official has said, a day after Ankara announced the finalisation of a deal that might affect its relations with NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
Ahmet Berat Conkar, head of the Ottoman Turkish delegation to NATO Parliamentary Assembly, said the purchase of the S-400 anti-aircraft missiles was solely based on technical and financial reasons.

"Turkey's picked S-400 over other options because the missile system possesses more advanced technical features than its rivals, with a better price and shorter delivery time," Conkar, who is a member of parliament for the ruling AK Party, told Al Jazeera.

His comments came after Nurettin Canikli, Turkey's defence minister, said on Saturday that the S-400 deal with Russia was "done".

"The S-400 missiles are purchased. Only small details are left to handle at this point," Canikli told news hounds in the northern city of Giresun.


Posted by: Fred 2017-11-13
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