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On December 14, 2020, the United States
imposed sanctions on the Republic of Turkey s
Presidency of Defense Industries ( SSB ), the
country s defense procurement agency, and four senior officials
at the agency, for knowingly engaging in a significant
transaction with Rosoboronexport ( ROE ),
Russia s main arms export entity, in procuring the S-400
surface-to-air missile system. These measures were a long-time
coming under
Section 231 of the Countering America s
Adversaries Through Sanctions Act ( CAATSA ) of 2017, the
President has been
required to impose sanctions
on any person determined to have knowingly engage[d] in a
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On December 14, 2020, the United States (
US) imposed sanctions on Turkey pursuant to Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (
CAATSA) for “knowingly engaging in a significant transaction with Rosoboronexport (
ROE), Russia’s main arms export entity, by procuring the S-400 surface-to-air missile system.”
Background
In July 2019, Turkey closed the purchase deal with Russia.
On October 14, 2019, in response to Turkey’s military offensive into northeast Syria the Office of Foreign Assets Control (
OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury designated two ministries of the Turkish Government and three Turkish Ministers on the Specially Designated Nationals (
SDN) List.
On October 23, 2019, President Trump announced that he was lifting the October 14, 2019 sanctions against Turkey.
Will not acknowledge unilateral sanctions against Turkey: Russia ANI | Updated: Dec 21, 2020 16:26 IST
New Delhi [India], December 21 (ANI): Ahead of the US Sanctions on Turkey over purchasing of missiles from Moscow, citing threat to Washington, Russian Ambassador to India Nikolay R Kudashev on Monday condemned the decision saying unilateral sanctions are unwelcome.
Kudashev said that no sanctions are acknowledged other than those by the United Nations Security Council. We don t welcome unilateral sanctions as a tool for international relations. As far as India is concerned, we share the same platform where India s position is also crystal clear that no sanctions are acknowledged other than those by the United Nations Security Council, he said while speaking to reporters virtually.
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