Does Turkey want to buy Russian S 400 air defense systems?

According to reports, although the arms purchase between Turkey and Russia is almost a foregone conclusion, and Russia is confident that it will sell the air defense system worth a total of $2.5 billion, the United States believes that Turkey's direction is clearly "incorrect." U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted that he is putting diplomatic pressure on the Ankara authorities to "change their minds" and recommend other alternatives.

According to Taiwanese media citing Russia**, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States is constantly working to persuade Turkey not to buy Russian S-400 air defense systems and actively recommend other products that can be replaced.

According to the report, since the United States announced new sanctions against Russia on the 6th of last month (April), once Turkey purchases Russia's S-400 air defense missile system, it will fall within the scope of US sanctions. The United States has also warned Turkey that if it buys this air defense system, it may be subject to sanctions. Then even Turkey's plans to buy American F-35s may be adversely affected.

But Pompeo did not further say whether the United States has decided to ban F-35 sales to Turkey.

According to the report, Russia and Turkey signed an agreement on the purchase of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system as early as the end of last year (2017). Russia will send Turkey **4 S-400 systems, and Russia intends to start deliveries of the first systems in March 2020. However, Russia's arms sales to Turkey have been opposed by Western countries.

Turkey** Erdogan said last year (2017) that Turkey has an independent defense force and other countries have no right to interfere.

Turkey, despite NATO's opposition, signed a contract with Russia to spend $2.5 billion to purchase 4 sets from Russia

400 anti-aircraft missile systems. Deployment is expected in 2019.

S400 is the world's most domineering air defense **, protect against Turkey? The S300 is already overkill, and the S400 not only covers a quarter of Turkey's land area, but also Israel and Lebanon, which is about to change the entire Middle East situation.

This time the United States played it off, and Turkey was played to death by the United States, just like Georgia and Ukraine back then, and in the end the United States threw them all away, regardless of .........

Russian officials state that the S-400 is deployed to protect Russian bombers carrying out anti-terrorist operations in Syria. In fact, the main purpose of the S-24 deployed after Turkey shot down the Russian Su-400 was to protect against Turkish fighters and the American F-15 deployed in Turkey

The range of the deployed S-400 actually covers about 300 kilometers of airspace within Turkish territory.

Russia now says that they will strike at aircraft that could threaten their own fighters. This means that any Turkish or other fighter jet flying close to a Russian aircraft could be hit, regardless of whether the Turkish aircraft is in its own territory or in Syria.

Turkey and Russia recently signed an agreement to purchase Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, an act that caused dissatisfaction with NATO. According to the Russian news agency TAS on November 27, citing the magazine "American News and World Report", the chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Peter ? In an interview with the magazine, Pavel said that NATO has no choice but to allow this act of the Turkish side.

"We are forced to take a pragmatic approach to this matter," Pavel said, adding that it would be "very unwise" to undermine relations with Turkey when it is willing to discuss these already existing problems. He said that both Turkey and NATO are willing to discuss these issues, and the two sides are mediating the situation related to the S-400. ”

Pavel also said that Turkey is an important partner of NATO, not only because of its geographical importance, especially its borders with Iraq, Iran and Syria, but also because it has the second largest army among the 29 NATO member states. In addition, Turkey is the only country in the North with a predominantly Muslim population.

But not long ago, this high-ranking NATO ** also made a tough statement against Turkey's purchase of Russian air defense systems. In an Oct. 25 report by the U.S. Defense Cluster News**, he warned that if NATO member Turkey buys Russian air defense systems, it will face "necessary consequences," including that it will exclude Turkey from the unified air defense system of NATO allies and possibly introduce other technical limitations.

U.S. News & World Report magazine pointed out that the United States and other NATO allies are reluctant to buy Russia for two main reasons: first, military infiltration, the S-400 cannot be included in NATO's air defense system; Second, politically, Turkey will pay "hundreds of millions of dollars" to Russia, which will violate the sanctions imposed by the US Congress and Trump on Russia.

According to previous reports, the contract for the purchase of S-400 air defense systems by Turkey and Russia is worth $2.5 billion, and the Turkish side has already paid the first payment. The purchase process will continue in the form of a Russian loan to Turkey, and the implementation of the system** will begin within two years.