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Turkey Must Chose U.S. or Russia in Weapons Dispute, Senator Says

  • Senate Armed Services chairman says it’s either F-35 or S-400
  • ‘Turkey must make a decision between Russia and the West’
An F-35 Lightning II 

Photographer: Johnny Saldivar via U.S. Air Force

Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg News) and Roxana Tiron (Bloomberg Government)
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Turkey’s government must choose between purchasing Russia’s advanced air defense system or staying a partner in the U.S.’s costliest weapons program, the F-35 jet, the new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said.

“For Turkey to remain in the F-35 program, it can’t move ahead with procurement” of the Russian system known as the S-400, Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma said in a statement to Bloomberg News.