Official on Turkey's position in NATO: no one has right to interfere
By Trend
No one has the right to interfere in Turkey’s affairs regarding its position in NATO, said Ibrahim Kalin, the press secretary of the Turkish president, Trend reports via Turkish media.
Kalin noted that Turkey is one of the NATO members and is responsible for all decisions that it makes.
Regarding the purchase of Russian S-400 air defense system, he said that no country has the right to tell Turkey what to do.
Russian S-400s do not pose a threat to NATO, and the US know it very well, he added.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said that the US believes that Turkey would be unable to have both American F-35 fighter-bombers and Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems at the same time, as this is technically impossible. “According to Pentagon sources, it is impossible to launch the F-35 in the space where the S-400 is operated,” he said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the country may receive the S-400 missile systems earlier than scheduled. In his words, Turkey expects to receive the first supplies of the S-400 missile systems in July 2019.