Overview
- Turkey’s Ministry of Defense states the Russian-made S-400 air defenses remain in army service with no change in status.
- A Turkish diplomatic source says there is no discussion of abandoning the systems and urges attention to official statements only.
- Bloomberg reports Turkey rejected U.S. demands to scrap the S-400s but is willing to discuss a joint control mechanism, citing unnamed sources.
- Claims in September that Turkey might return or sell the systems were reported by a Nefes columnist and later dismissed by Turkish sources and officials.
- Russia’s arms cooperation chief Dmitry Shugaev says Moscow offers full servicing and further cooperation on the S-400s, which were contracted in 2017 and delivered in 2019.