{"id":2362,"date":"2019-06-22T01:39:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2019-06-22T01:39:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:39:20","slug":"turkey-rejected-uss-ultimatum-to-back-down-on-russian-missile-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/turkey-rejected-uss-ultimatum-to-back-down-on-russian-missile-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey rejected USs ultimatum to back down on Russian missile deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Turkey&nbsp;<\/strong>announced that it will not back down from its decision to buy&nbsp;<strong>Russian S-400 missile defense\nsystems&nbsp;<\/strong>despite<strong>&nbsp;U.S.&#8217;s\nultimatum.<\/strong>This has created tension between Ankara and\nWashington, the NATO allies.<br>\nThe<strong>&nbsp;S-400s&nbsp;<\/strong>are\nnot compatible with NATO\u2019s defense systems. US said it would compromise its<strong>&nbsp;F-35s<\/strong>, which\nTurkey also plans to buy. Turkey has proposed that the allies form a working\ngroup to asses the impact of the S-400s, but has yet to receive a response from\nthe United States.<br><br><strong>US&#8217;\nurge:<\/strong><br>\nU.S. urged Turkey to abandon its purchase of\na&nbsp;<strong>Russian missile\ndefence system.<\/strong>&nbsp;If Turkey does not end the deal, U.S. said\nthat it would expel the Turkish pilots training on the F-35 fighter jet\nprogramme.<br><strong>Turkish\nForeign Minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu&nbsp;<\/strong>suggested an offer to set up a joint working group to resolve U.S.\nconcerns.<br><br><strong>Turkey:<\/strong><br><strong>President:&nbsp;<\/strong>Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<br><strong>Vice\nPresident:&nbsp;<\/strong>Fuat Oktay<br><strong>Capital:<\/strong>&nbsp;Ankara<br><strong>Currency:&nbsp;<\/strong>Turkish lira (\u20ba) (TRY)\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&nbsp;announced that it will not back down from its decision to buy&nbsp;Russian S-400 missile defense systems&nbsp;despite&nbsp;U.S.&#8217;s ultimatum.This has created tension between Ankara and Washington, the NATO allies. The&nbsp;S-400s&nbsp;are not compatible with NATO\u2019s defense systems. US said it would compromise its&nbsp;F-35s, which Turkey also plans to buy. Turkey has proposed that the allies form a working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}