Erdogan Discussed Warplane, Submarine Cooperation With Putin
- Russian, Turkish leaders also discussed advancing S-400 talks
- Russia will explore building two more nuclear plants: Erdogan
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Turkey and Russia discussed expanding defense cooperation from missiles to ships, warplanes and submarines, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, defying threatened U.S. sanctions.
Erdogan’s comments on potentially tighter defense ties with Russia could alarm Turkey’s NATO allies, already anxious over Ankara’s purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile defense system, and follows Erdogan’s complaint last week that relations with the U.S. remain strained.