Turkish Retaliation to U.S. S-400 Sanctions to Hurt Bilateral Ties: MFA Aishwarya Rakesh 3101
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.