Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu attends a session at the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday. -Reuters
Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday that Russia's S-400 air defense system was compatible with NATO, which needed to set up a working group to study it.
"The claim is that the S400 and F-35s are incompatible. That's the claim. Here is our proposal, let's have a working group and NATO can chair this and let's let experts make the assessment and come back to us," he said.
"We believe the S400 and F-35 are compatible," Cavusoglu said during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. "It does not pose any threats to the NATO system or to NATO allies," he added. Turkey's foreign minister called on Thursday for the enlargement of NATO and the addition of Georgia to the organization.
"I don't understand why we have not invited Georgia or we haven't activated the action plan for Georgia to become a member," Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"We are criticized for having relatively better relations with Russia as a neighbor, but our western friends are not agreeing to invite Georgia because they don't want to provoke Russia. But Georgia needs us and we need an ally like Georgia. So we need enlargement and Georgia should be made a member."
---Reuters, Davos
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