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Erdogan says US refusal to deliver F-35 jets would be 'robbery'
[Rudaw] President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said it would be "robbery" for the United States to deny  ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...the F-35 fighter jets it has bought, according to comments published on Thursday. Turkey-US ties are under serious strain over Ankara's purchase of the Russian S-400 air defence system, which is due for delivery in the coming days. In response, Washington has threatened to cancel Turkey's order of 116 F-35 fighter jets and kick it off the training and production programme, as well as wider economic sanctions. "If you seek a customer, and a customer comes forward and makes payments like clockwork, how can you not give that customer their goods? This would be robbery," Erdogan was quoted as saying by Hurriyet daily. He said Turkey had already paid $1.4 billion, while its defence industry has ploughed significant sums into the warplanes' production. The acting US defence secretary, Patrick Shanahan, wrote a letter to Ankara last month, warning that But after meeting his US counterpart Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan on Saturday, Erdogan said he had been assured there would be no sanctions. "We lied" Trump blamed the previous adminstration of Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... for failing to finalise a deal for Turkey to buy the American Patriot system instead of the S-400. Turkey has previously said Russia offered a better deal including joint production. In his latest comments, Erdogan said Trump's attitude was "praiseworthy". Posted by: trailing wife 2019-07-05 |
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