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US sanction on Turkish defense firms could go beyond F-35 suppliers |
2019-06-22 |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Washington is looking at imposing financial sanctions on Chief arms buyer Ellen Lord said US officials viewed ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... as an important NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... ally and urged it to drop its plans to buy the Russian-built S-400 air defense system so that its companies could continue to build critical parts for a wide range of other US weapons systems besides the F-35 fighter jet. The discussion has focused so far mainly on the high profile F-35 program. But Lord’s comments at the Gay Paree Airshow reflected growing concern in Washington about Turkey’s refusal to reverse its purchase of the S-400 system. Lord said the issues were being kept separate for now, but an inter-agency U.S. government group was looking at potential sanctions against a wider range of "We have bifurcated the S-400 and F-35 impact from (the) impact to the rest of our defense and commercial industry," Lord told news hounds. "Everything outside of the F-35 from a defense perspective, we have reviewed within the department and that would be subject to any CAATSA sanctions." She said no decisions had been made, but a decision to proceed with sanctions would hit the "There have been no decisions made on that point. However it would be very, very significant for Turkey," Lord said, noting that the US industry was resilient and could find other sources for the "That’s not really what we want to do," she said. "We want to find a way to continue to work with Turkey." Ralph Acaba, president of Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, said He said |
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