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US blacklists four Turks over Russia arms
By EUobserver
The US has blacklisted İsmail Demir, the president of Turkey's Defence Industries Directorate, a body dealing with weapons procurement, and three other of its employees, in protest that Turkey bought a Russian air-defence system. America earlier already excluded Turkey from its F-35 warplane development programme. The EU, last week, also agreed to blacklist Turkish officials linked to gas-drilling in Cypriot-claimed eastern Mediterranean waters, in a widening rift between Nato allies.