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The president of the Turkey-United States Business Council (TAIK), Turkey’s largest trade group in the U.S., introduced itself to President Joe Biden’s administration with proposals on how the two countries can achieve greater cooperation.
Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ, TAIK’s president, led the effort with a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday. Congratulating Blinken on his confirmation to the post, Yalçındağ praised Blinken for his “well-deserved appointment” to lead the Department of State and expressed his eagerness to build a working relationship.
“The economic relationship between our two countries is not just vital for Turkish and American livelihoods; it is the foundation upon which our decades-old alliance can be strengthened,” wrote Yalçındağ. He stressed that deepened cooperation would “bring forth more security, understanding, and increased cooperation within our critically important strategic
Last Updated On: Feb 18 2021 10:08 Gmt+3
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar has suggested that Turkey and the U.S. could resolve their differences over his country’s procurement of Russian S-400 air defence missile systems by replicating what he called the “Crete model.” He was directly referring to Greece’s possession of older Russian S-300 missiles that have been based on Crete for years now.
“We’ve seen this before, whatever the model used for the S-300 on Crete, we’re open to negotiating,” Akar was quoted as saying.
Cyprus originally ordered those S-300s in the late 1990s to deter Turkish overflights of its airspace. Ankara threatened to destroy them if they were deployed on the divided island, sparking a major crisis. That crisis was averted when Greece agreed to take delivery of the missiles instead, putting them in storage on Crete. Athens did not activate the systems until a military exercise in 2013.
In a long-expected move, the US is slapping sanctions on Turkey for its purchase of a Russian-made weapons system. The move was condemned by the Turkish government, which said it would retaliate at an “appropriate” time. The World’s Marco Werman spoke to Ilhan Tanir, a Turkish political analyst and executive editor of Ahval News, about the latest developments between the US and Turkey.
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S-400 air defense system
Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said its move in response to America’s sanctions for buying Russian S-400 Triumf systems will sour Turkey-U.S. relations.
On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a series of sanctions under the CAATSA against Turkey’s military procurement agency known by the Turkish acronym SSB and four senior Turkish officials. These sanctions prohibit SSB from accessing loans from either U.S or international financial institutes, restricts exports licenses for Turkish military products built with U.S components, and initiates visa and asset freezes on SSB s executives.