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USA, ultimatum to Turkey

Ankara will have to choose between F-35 aircraft and S-400 missiles

With us or against us. The US ultimatum to Turkey has arrived: by the end of July, Ankara will have to choose between the United States (thus remaining both as a buyer and as a developer in Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter airplanes), and Russia (accepting delivery of the anti-aircraft defense missiles S-400). US interim defense minister Patrick Shanahan notified it in a letter to his Turkish counterpart...

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