Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey was still intending to buy a second batch of missile defense systems from Russia, a move that triggered U.S. sanctions and deepened a rift with Washington.
In an interview aired on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan at CBS News, Erdogan said nobody can interfere with what defense systems Ankara, a NATO ally, would buy. Washington has repeatedly said a second batch of the S-400s would almost certainly trigger fresh U.S. sanctions.
Erdogan also said Biden -- who has repeatedly said promoting democracy and rights and freedoms worldwide is at the heart of his foreign policy -- never in their meetings raised issues with Turkey's human rights track record.
(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Toby Chopra)
