US unlikely to impose sanctions on Turkey over S400 missiles, says Turkish official

September 19, 2019

The National:

US President Donald Trump has become more understanding about why Turkey has purchased a Russian missile defense system and he is not expected to impose US sanctions on Ankara over the issue, a senior Turkish official said on Wednesday.

“My expectation is it (sanctions) would not be implemented,” the senior official told reporters in Washington, adding that Trump had grown to empathise more with Ankara’s position. “He understood the whole history behind how we got to purchasing the S-400s,” she said.

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