S-400 missile system a millstone round Erdogan’s neck, analysts say

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MENEKSE TOKYAY

Wed, 2020-04-22 01:30

ANKARA: Turkey’s $2.5 billion Russian-made S-400 air defense system is turning into a costly millstone round President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s neck, analysts told Arab News on Tuesday.

Plans to activate the system have been delayed for several months because of what senior Turkish officials describe as “technical issues,” and because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But Aaron Stein, director of the Middle East program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, cast doubt on the claim that there was a technical delay with the system, which Turkey has had since last July.

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