President Donald Trump is planning to impose more sanctions on Turkey
and remove it from a critical fighter jet programme if the NATO ally
acquires Russian air defence, despite the Turkish president’s assurances to the contrary.


After meeting President Trump at the G-20 summit in Japan over the weekend, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara will be spared the sanctions once Russia’s S-400 air defence system starts arriving in Turkey in coming days.
President Trump appeared sympathetic to Erdogan at the talks and reluctant to publicly commit to sanctions despite being repeatedly asked by reporters.
Last December, President Trump announced plans to withdraw United
States troops from Syria after another conversation with President Erdogan, despite opposition from United States military advisers and United States allies.


He later scaled back the extent of the withdrawal to allow some troops to remain in Syria.

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