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“Sanctions are being considered, of course,” Secretary of State Clark Cooper said, after Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that Turkey had tested the defense system on October 16. S-400, which Washington considers incompatible with his team NATO.
Cooper clarified that Washington had informed, since last year, Turkey, its strategic partner and member of NATO, that the red line that it should not violate would be the activation of the S-400, which Ankara bought in 2017, in a context of your approach Moscow.
“We have made it clear to Ankara that testing the S-400s would be completely unacceptable,” he said.
Today, efforts continue to “persuade Turkey not to put its S-400 into operation,” he added. “Put them aside, turn them off. But don’t incorporate them to make them functional.”
