The idea of Ankara sending its Russian-made S-400 missile systems to Ukraine is unrealistic, Turkish Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun said in a letter to the Wall Street Journal.
According to him, the idea is "quite unrealistic."
In addition, Altun pointed out that "what the West must do is deliver the F-35 fighter jets and Patriot batteries to Turkey without preconditions." "It would take confidence-building measures, not so-called informal proposals, to repair the relationship," Altun added. "Turks still remember how our allies withdrew Patriot batteries from Turkey during some of the tensest periods in Turkish-Russian relations," the Turkish official noted.
The Pentagon earlier confirmed that the United States was in talks with Turkey on sending the S-400 systems to Kyiv in exchange for reinstating Ankara in the F-35 program and lifting sanctions.
