Forecast: Ankara will cancel  the Russian S-400  contract under NATO  pressure or having achieved results of its own shantage

ArmInfo. Ankara is quite capable of abandoning the Russian S- 400 systems not only under the pressure of NATO, in particular the United States, but also having  achieved the results of its own policy of blackmail. Such an opinion  was expressed by ArmInfo director of the Institute of Oriental  Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Ruben  Safrastyan.

According to the general director of Rostek, Sergei Chemezov, Turkey  has already purchased four S-400 divisions from Russia for $ 2.5  billion. The Russian and Turkish Ministries of Finance concluded  negotiations on granting Moscow an Ankara loan for the purchase of  the S-400, it remains only to approve the final documents. 45% of the  total amount of the contract, Turkey pays as an advance, 55% is the  credit of the Russian Federation. The first deliveries are planned in  March 2020.

"I very much doubt Turkey's ability to bring the S-400 deal to real  deliveries, I share the opinion of a number of experts." The apparent  dissatisfaction of Turkey's allies in NATO, primarily the US, is only  part of the underwater icebergs on the way to arms deals with Russia.  The blackmail of both opponents and his own allies for Erdogan has  long become a habit, therefore, when referring to Moscow for weapons,  he is trying to put pressure on Washington and Brussels, he denied  this weapon, "the Turkologist said.  The agreement on the supply of  S-400 complexes Moscow and Ankara was signed in mid-September. The  contract was criticized by NATO, the allies characterized Turkey's  decision as capable of preventing it from becoming part of the  Alliance's unified air defense system. Ankara justified an appeal to  Moscow for the impossibility of obtaining similar air defense systems  from NATO countries.