{"id":13250,"date":"2019-03-10T17:33:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T09:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=13250"},"modified":"2019-03-10T17:33:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T09:33:31","slug":"erdogan-purchasing-s-400-not-related-to-nato-f-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=13250","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan: Purchasing S-400 not related to NATO, F-35"},"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\/02\/turkey-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6949\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/turkey-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/turkey-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/turkey-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/turkey-600x300.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/turkey.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy  Anadolu\u00a0 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ANKARA, March 10 (NNN=AGENCIES) &#8211; Turkey&#8217;s purchase of S-400 missile defense system from Russia has &#8220;nothing to do&#8221; with NATO, F-35 fighter jets or security of the U.S., President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Everyone knows that this issue has nothing to do with neither NATO and F-35 project nor the security of the U.S.,&#8221; Erdogan told a meeting of Turkey Youth Foundation (TUGVA) in the southeastern Diyarbakir province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erdogan said Turkey is facing pressure against buying S-400 air defense system, adding: &#8220;The issue is not about S-400. It is because Turkey takes action with its own will regarding the regional developments, particularly Syria.&#8221;<br>\n &#8220;It is clear why Turkey is buying this air defense system and how will it use it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erdogan also said that this issue will be solved through logic and common sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After protracted efforts to purchase air defense systems from the U.S. with no success, Ankara decided in 2017 to buy Russian S-400 air defense systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move was criticized by the Pentagon, which warned that purchasing the S-400 would hurt Turkish-U.S. relations and Turkey&#8217;s role in NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ankara is also planning to purchase 100 F-35 fighter jets from the U.S. pending congressional approval, and its pilots are currently training on the weapons platform at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkish firms also supply the F-35 program with key components, including airframe structures and assemblies, and the center fuselages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, March 10 (NNN=AGENCIES) &#8211; Turkey&#8217;s purchase of S-400 missile defense system from Russia has &#8220;nothing to do&#8221; with NATO, F-35 fighter jets or security of the U.S., President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. &#8220;Everyone knows that this issue has nothing to do with neither NATO and F-35 project nor the security of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":13133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13250"}],"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=13250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}