{"id":4798,"date":"2019-07-04T21:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T21:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2019-07-04T21:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T21:42:56","slug":"turkey-stockpiles-crucial-weapons-parts-anticipating-u-s-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/07\/04\/turkey-stockpiles-crucial-weapons-parts-anticipating-u-s-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"TURKEY STOCKPILES CRUCIAL WEAPONS PARTS ANTICIPATING U.S SANCTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/07\/xlarge_Turkish-Air-Force_F16s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-100\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/07\/xlarge_Turkish-Air-Force_F16s-1024x739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/07\/xlarge_Turkish-Air-Force_F16s-1024x739.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/07\/xlarge_Turkish-Air-Force_F16s-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/07\/xlarge_Turkish-Air-Force_F16s-560x404.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/07\/xlarge_Turkish-Air-Force_F16s-260x188.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/07\/xlarge_Turkish-Air-Force_F16s-160x116.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/07\/xlarge_Turkish-Air-Force_F16s.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Bloomberg<br \/>\nBy Selcan Hacaoglu<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, girding for the worst despite encouraging messages from President Donald Trump, has stockpiled crucial spare parts for American-made weapons in case Congress sanctions it over a contentious Russian missile purchase.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear when the stockpiling decision was first taken, but Turkish officials say the preparations were made in anticipation of possible U.S. embargoes.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has been threatening sanctions against Turkey since 2018, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to buy the Russian S-400 missile-defense system, a competitor to American-made Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-07-01\/turkey-stockpiles-crucial-arms-parts-anticipating-u-s-sanctions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Bloomberg By Selcan Hacaoglu Turkey, girding for the worst despite encouraging messages from President Donald Trump, has stockpiled crucial spare parts for American-made weapons in case Congress sanctions it over a contentious Russian missile purchase. It\u2019s unclear when the stockpiling decision was first taken, but Turkish officials say the preparations were made in anticipation&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/07\/04\/turkey-stockpiles-crucial-weapons-parts-anticipating-u-s-sanctions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TURKEY STOCKPILES CRUCIAL WEAPONS PARTS ANTICIPATING U.S SANCTIONS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}