This is reported by the TRT TV channel.
"At the expense of the S-400, we provide our protection against ballistic missiles ... When there are no threats, there is no need to deploy the system in order to save its resource, "TASS quoted him as saying.
According to Demir, Turkey needs "at least another six years" to create its own S-400 air defense system.
In February, the director of the fourth European department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Yuri Pilipson, said that Moscow does not see unsolvable tasks in supplying Turkey with the second regiment of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system.
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