“No matter how much Ankara is condemned in Washington, they will never forget about their pocket. What makes it obvious: the reaction of the United States, who abandoned their Kurdish allies, is a storm in a glass of water, ”the politician wrote on Twitter.
The US Department of Defense said that the supply of American weapons would be excluded from US sanctions against Turkey. No matter how much Washington condemns Ankara, they will never forget about their pocket. What makes it obvious: the reaction of the United States, who abandoned their Kurdish allies, is a storm in a glass of water.
- Alexey Pushkov (@Alexey_Pushkov) October 15, 2019In July, the senator commented on the possible imposition of US sanctions against Turkey over the S-400, saying that Ankara “should have obediently purchased the Patriot systems that it did not need, and not the S-400, and then there would have been no sanctions.”
The United States imposed sanctions on the Turkish Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Energy and the heads of these departments, as well as the head of the Turkish Ministry of Internal Affairs, Suleiman Soilu.
This decision was a response to the military operation "Source of Peace" in Syria.