Turkey has reportedly begun testing their new Russian made S-400 anti-aircraft systems to much consternation from the USG (archived). USG relations with their NATO ally Turkey have been eroding for some time. Turkey was ejected from the USG and Israel lead F-35 program for finding relatively inexpensive Russian made missiles to be a better value than gravely expensive jets with dubious stealth performance.
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The fact that this entire Turkey business keeps happening around Thanksgiving only adds to the lulz.
That it does. Myself I have a chicken in the fridge for tomorrow because they folks down here are so Turkey poor that they import a handful of frozen birds from the US.