ANKARA
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Friday that Ankara would retaliate against potential U.S. sanctions over its purchase of Russian defense systems and a natural gas pipeline.
US Congress has moved to impose sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of S-400 defense systems from Russia and related to Russia’s TurkStream pipeline, whi ch will carry Russian gas to Turkey. Asked about the various sanctions against Ankara, Erdogan repeated that the S-400 deal was already completed.
“Now they are saying, ‘we will impose sanctions against this’ regarding TurkStream, he was quoted as saying. This is a breach of our rights in the fullest sense. We will of course have our own sanctions against all of these.
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