
Turkey on Wednesday rejected criticism from the United States over its testing of a newly-acquired Russian missile defense system. “You don’t buy a product to keep it in a box,” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a press conference. Turkey’s acquisition of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia this summer ...

Turkish F-16 warplanes will fly over the country’s capital Ankara Monday to test its new Russian S-400 missile defences, Turkish media said, despite pressure from Washington for Turkey to drop the system. Ankara’s purchase of the S-400s has been a major factor souring relations with the United States, which says ...