Ankara’s purchase of US missiles worth $3.5 billion will not affect a deal to acquire rival S-400 missiles from Russia, the Turkish presidential spokesman said Monday.
“The US Patriot sale process does not affect the S-400 process. We don’t see one as an alternative for the other,” Ibrahim Kalin said. Turkey’s plans to buy the Russian S-400s has drawn rebuke from its NATO allies.
The spokesman also underlined that the purchase of US missiles worth $3.5 billion was not an alternative to Russia’ S-400 systems. “The deliveries of the [Russian-made] S-400 systems will not be affected, and they will begin in 2019. This is not an alternative, but two parallel processes,” the spokesman stressed.
Source: Agencies
