MOSCOW – Turkey may buy Russia’s Su-57 fighters on favourable terms,speaker for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Mustafa Şentop, said.
“Why not? Of course, every country has a need for the defence industry, ifnecessary, Turkey can use it for the defence industry. This, remember,happened with the S-400, we bought the S-400 [air defence missile systems].Turkey can buy some weapons for its defence only on favourable terms, theymay be bought from Russia, or from some other third countries,” Şentop saidin response to a question from Sputnik.
During his visit to the MAKS-2019 international air and space show inZhukovsky outside Moscow last month, Turkey’s President Recep TayyipErdogan watched aerobatics performed by Russian Su-35, Su-57 and MiG-35jets.
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Mr Erdogan then told the media that Su-35s or Su-57s could replaceLockheed’s F-35slinkaftertheir delivery was blocked by Washington following Turkey’s decision topurchase Russia’s S-400 air defence system.
