Turkey 'not out of the woods' on S-400 sanctions as India, others watch

摘要

The Trump administration is still considering imposing statutorily mandated sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system, as officials worry that not doing anything could send the wrong message to other countries considering buying weapons from Moscow. The United States already kicked Turkey out of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program earlier this summer. But officials have yet to sanction Turkey in accordance with the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), which requires the U.S. government to sanction those who buy from Russia's defense sector. R. Clarke Cooper, the assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, said officials are still weighing how to proceed with the CAATSA requirements and Turkey.