USA: buying Turkey s-400 is a problem for NATO

Ankara's decision to buy Russian anti-aircraft system s-400 is a problem, RIA Novosti reported statement by the U.S. Permanent representative to NATO kay hutchison. This caused alarm in NATO, since these systems are incompatible with those systems, that uses the alliance, said hutchinson in an interview with the Washington post. At the same time, she stressed several times that "Turkey is a key partner of the United States" and Washington is interested in cooperation with it. The United States "Does not want Turkey closer to russia", noted the ambassador. It's not in our interests. But it's also not in the interests of Turkey, she added. We will remind, president of Turkey Tayyip Erdogan on 12 september announced that Turkey signed an agreement to acquire systems s-400, the deposit is made. This information was confirmed by the Russian presidential aide on military-technical cooperation Vladimir kozhin.

According to him, the contract is signed and ready for execution. Later deputy head of the secretariat of the defense industry of Turkey ismail demir said that the supply of systems s-400 to Turkey will begin within two years.