Turkey discuss with Russia for the purchase of Russian-made S-400 air defense missile systems 11911162.

The Turkish Ministry of Defense in 2013 considered bids submitted in a tender for providing air defense systems and made a decision to continue specific discussions with a Chinese manufacturer of long-range air defense systems FD-2000, export version of HQ-9. The Chinese was in competition with the American Raytheon/Lockheed Martin Patriot, Italian-French concern Eurosam with the SAMP/T and the Russia’s Antey-2500 proposed by Rosoboronexport (Russia's state agency arms exporter agency).

Undersecretary of Defense Industries Ismail Demir had earlier said Turkey was prepared to work with “any interested party,” including Russia and China, on developing its long-range air defense capabilities.

"Turkey’s doors are open to any country willing to cooperate with the country technically in producing air defense systems for the use of the Turkish Armed Forces, the head of the defense industry body has said, without ruling out the direct procurement of the systems until they can develop a national model.", said Undersecretary of Turkish Defense Industries Ismail Demir.

Alexander Fomin, the head of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, said on November 7, 2016, that Russia planned to discuss the issue of deliveries of air defense systems to Turkey as it is on the agenda of Russian-Turkish military cooperation.

The S-400 Triumph (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler) is a Russian-made anti-aircraft weapon system developed in the 1990s by the Company Almaz-Antey as an upgrade of the S-300 family.