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Mattis again threatens Turkey to block the F-35 delivery

In the meantime however the first Turkish pilot flew on the plane

The US Secretary of Defense James Mattis is back today again on the purchase of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile defense system by Turkey, expressing once again its deepest concern because: "They are bringing a Russian system into a NATO Country, but we can not integrate it into our defensive structures".A fact that causes concern in all the other member states of the Atlantic Alliance, but especially...

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