Ankara expects the Trump administration to extend an existing sanctions waiver to allow Turkey to continue importing Iranian oil, Turkey's presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin says
Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin says Ankara expects US President Donald Trump to use his waiver on Iranian oil and Russian arms sales.
Speaking to reporters in Washington, Kalin said Turkey has already reduced its purchases of Iranian oil, without providing a level. Ankara has conveyed its message that its waiver should be extended, Kalin said. "Because we wouldn’t want to have our F-35 program jeopardised in any way by the S-400 or any other system."
US officials advised Turkey to buy the US Patriot missile system rather than the S-400s from Moscow, arguing that the Russian system would be incompatible with NATO systems and expose the F-35 to possible Russian subterfuge. Kalin said President Erdogan and other Turkish officials have been urging Trump to use a presidential exemption to spare Turkey from sanctions under legislation known as the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act , which is aimed in part at Russia’s defence industry. The exemption allows Trump to bypass the mandated sanctions should he determine it is in US national security interests to do so.
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