Intel: How Russia, Turkey are expanding their military cooperation to America’s detriment
Following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s trip to Moscow on Tuesday, Russia and Turkey are discussing prospects for further military-technical cooperation.
Why not? We didn’t come here for nothing,” he replied.
Erdogan added that a respective decision would be made after a “final word” from the United States over Turkey’s participation in the F-35 program. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper, however, made that stance pretty clear on Wednesday when he said the only way Turkey was getting F-35s is if it returns its S-400 missile defense system to Russia.
Earlier, at the MAKS-2019 air show in Moscow, Erdogan was caught on camera asking Russian President Vladimir Putin whether Ankara could purchase Russia’s Su-57 fifth-generation jet fighter.
