Turkey, US Diverge Over Procurement and Security

Defense News: ANKARA, Turkey — NATO allies Turkey and the United States are exhibiting increasingly divergent positions over procurement matters and their joint campaign against radical Islamist terrorism in Syria and Iraq, giving signals of conflicting security priorities.

“This is worrying,” said one NATO diplomat in Ankara. “We hope the [US-Turkish] differences should not cause any operational weakness or lack of cohesion [in the allied campaign].”

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