ANKARA (TASS) — Ankara has no plans to abandon its purchase of Russia’s S-400 air defence systems, Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told the TRT broadcaster.

Kalin said:

The decision on the S-400 systems was not made overnight, which is what we told our American colleagues. The S-400 agreement was signed about four months before the CAATSA [Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act]. From the legal standpoint, U.S. statements are inconsistent. The U.S. said that it would not hold talks on the matter at the moment.