{"id":12591,"date":"2019-03-07T08:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12591"},"modified":"2019-03-07T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:22:27","slug":"turkey-buying-russian-s-400s-a-done-deal-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12591","title":{"rendered":"Turkey buying Russian S-400s a done deal: Erdogan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Erdogan-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12592\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Erdogan-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Erdogan-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Erdogan-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Erdogan-600x300.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Erdogan.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> <br>Speaking in a televised interview, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, said that Ankara and Moscow have finalized the agreement on Turkey buying the S-400 missile system. Photo courtesy Anadolu<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ANKARA, March 7, 2019 (NNN-ANADALU) -Turkey has concluded agreements regarding its purchase of Russian S-400 missile systems, the Turkish president said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Speaking in a televised interview, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara and Moscow have finalized the agreement on Turkey buying the S-400 missile system.<\/p><cite> <br>Turkish president&#8217;s comments come amid US suggestions Ankara should reconsider buying Russian missile defense system <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We concluded the S-400 issue, signed a deal with the Russians, and will start co-production. Later, we may work with S-500s,&#8221; the next generation system, Erdogan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. officials have suggested that Turkey should buy U.S. Patriot missiles rather than the Russian system, arguing the S-400 is incompatible with NATO systems, but Turkish officials have said the purchase from Russia is decided, even if Turkey were to also buy Patriots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, March 7, 2019 (NNN-ANADALU) -Turkey has concluded agreements regarding its purchase of Russian S-400 missile systems, the Turkish president said on Wednesday. Speaking in a televised interview, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara and Moscow have finalized the agreement on Turkey buying the S-400 missile system. Turkish president&#8217;s comments come amid US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":12592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}