Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday he was confident there would be no US sanctions against Turkey over a controversial Russian missile deal, following reassurances from leader Donald Trump at the G20 summit.
Ankara's push to buy Moscow's S-400 missile defence system has strained ties between the NATO allies, with the threat of penalities from Washington looming over Turkey.
"We heard from him that there won't be anything like this (sanctions)," Erdogan told a press conference, after meeting with the US president on the sidelines of the summit in Osaka, Japan.
While Erdogan insisted Turkey and the United States were "strategic partners", he said that "no one has the power to intervene in Turkey's sovereignty".
His office said Trump wished to resolve the S-400 issue "without damaging bilateral ties".
Before the talks, Trump said Turkey "has been a friend of ours... We're a big trading partner. We're going to be much bigger."
"So he buys the other missile and then, all of a sudden, they say, 'Well, you can now buy our missile,'" Trump said, adding: "You can't do business that way. It's not good."
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