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Washington calls on Ankara to abandon Russian weapons after clashes in Syria

2020-02-27T21:21:19.463Z



The United States on Thursday called on Turkey to learn from recent clashes in Syria with the Moscow-backed Damascus regime by renouncing Russian S-400 air defense systems.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has engaged his forces in north-western Syria, where they face the regime of Bashar al-Assad, which wants to take over the last rebel and jihadist stronghold of Idleb with the support of air strikes Russian.

Nine Turkish soldiers were killed in new air strikes, Turkish authorities announced on Thursday. This new crisis has fueled tensions between Ankara, which supports rebel groups in Idleb, and Moscow. "I really hope that President Erdogan will see who is Turkey's reliable partner and who is not," US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison told journalists in Washington. .

She said the US government was "the ally of the past and the future" of the Turks. "They have to give up the S-400s," she insisted. "They see Russia as it really is, they see what it is doing now, and if it attacks Turkish soldiers, it must take precedence over anything that can otherwise unite Turkey and Russia."

The S-400s are the main disputes between Washington and Ankara, allies within NATO: the Turkish army bought these defense systems despite the threat of American sanctions, angering the United States, who believe that this is not compatible with the arrangements of the Atlantic Alliance. "We have tried everything to explain to our ally that if we want to remain in the same alliance, they cannot have a Russian missile defense system in the middle of their country," warned the ambassador.

Source: lefigaro

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