Turkey Warns U.S. Push on Russian Missiles Could Backfire
The S-400 air defense system at Turkish Air Force's Murdet Air Base in Ankara in Nov. 2019.
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American demands that Turkey scrap a Russian air-defense system could boomerang, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman warned.
“If another country comes to us with a maximalist position and demands, you know, ‘It’s either my way or the highway,’ then that kind of attitude pushes you in other directions,” Ibrahim Kalin said in an interview in Istanbul on Saturday.