“If the United States portrays an adversarial attitude towards us, we will take retaliatory measures, as we’ve told them. A US official said it would cost some $500 million to $600 million to shift F-35 manufacturing from Turkey. “Moscow and Ankara are holding consultations in the area of the licensed production of the S-400 air defense system component parts,” Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency quoted Chemezov as saying. “Besides, Turkey is interested in the latest Russian combat modules, air defense systems of various ranges, as well as anti-tank systems. Negotiations are underway for Russia to help the Republic of Turkey in creating its national air defense and long-range missile defense systems,” he said.

Source: bd News24 July 22, 2019 11:26 UTC