Economics
Turkey Receives Russian Missile System as U.S. Weighs Response
- Top defense body said first batch of system parts arrived
- Trump didn’t mention S-400 in speech at a Lockheed plant
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Turkey says it received the first shipments of a Russian missile-defense system whose purchase has long drawn the threat of American sanctions, but the Trump administration stayed largely silent as officials debated the severity of the U.S. response against its NATO ally.
A Russian plane carrying parts for the S-400 batteries landed at an air base near the Turkish capital of Ankara on Friday, Turkey’s top defense board said. The lira fell on the news, which comes after more than a year of rising tensions between Washington and Ankara and domestic political challenges for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.