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US-Turkey Tensions Escalate Over Russian Missiles

Dorian Jones

   ISTANBUL - Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar dismissed the
   Pentagon's latest warning over Ankara's imminent procurement of Russian
   missiles on Thursday as "language unbecoming of an ally."

   U.S. acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan's letter to his
   Turkish counterpart laid out a detailed timetable of Turkey's exclusion
   from the purchase and production of America's latest F-35 fighter jet
   if Ankara buys Russia's S-400 missiles system.

   The Pentagon claims the S-400 would compromise the F-35 and, in
   particular, its stealth technology that was developed to evade systems
   like the S-400.

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