WASHINGTON – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated ahead of hisvisit to the US in order to participate in the UN General Assembly that theidea of Ankara buying American Patriot missiles is “not off the table”,Daily Sabah reported. He noted, however, that for a deal to happen, the USmust make some concessionslink,Sputnik has reported.
“If our conditions are fulfilled we could consider buying them, this isalso on the US’ agenda”, Erdogan said.
While the Turkish president has not elaborated on what these conditionsare, he described them in a previous interview on the topic on 14September. Erdogan said that the conditions of a potential Patriot deal should”at least match up to [those of the] S-400s”linkforit to be concluded between the two states. He also noted that Turkey isinterested in American Patriots regardless of how many S-400s it ordersfrom Russia.
