{"id":40094,"date":"2019-07-13T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T22:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40094"},"modified":"2019-07-13T22:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T22:22:30","slug":"why-is-turkeys-purchase-of-russian-weapons-controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40094","title":{"rendered":"Why is Turkey&#8217;s purchase of Russian weapons controversial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"81\">\n<p>A battle appears to be looming within the western world&#8217;s most important military alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The two NATO members with the largest armies are in dispute over weapons from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The US is threatening sanctions against Turkey for buying the Russian S-400 anti-missile system, placing Russian weapons inside NATO territory.<\/p>\n<p>Washington had warned that if the sale goes ahead, Turkey would be kicked out of a programme to build its new F-35 warplane, and Turkish pilots learning to fly the jet would be sent home.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the sale so controversial? And could Turkey be risking its position in the NATO military alliance?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Martine Dennis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Osman Sert &#8211; research director at the Ankara Institute and former adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu<\/p>\n<p>Anna Matveeva &#8211; visiting senior research fellow at King&#8217;s College London<\/p>\n<p>Marko Mihkelson &#8211; member of the Estonian parliament who serves as the deputy chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A battle appears to be looming within the western world&#8217;s most important military alliance. The two NATO members with the largest armies are in dispute over weapons from Russia. The US is threatening sanctions against Turkey for buying the Russian S-400 anti-missile system, placing Russian weapons inside NATO territory. Washington had warned that if the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}