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The U.S.'s decision to impose sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia further complicates the already troubled relationship between the two NATO members. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said earlier this week that the Trump administration was obliged to impose sanction on Turkey under the Countering America's Adversaries through Sanctions Act, passed in 2017 and aimed at discouraging third countries from buying weapons from Russia. Earlier, the U.S. had suspended Turkey from its F-35 fighter jet programmer which Washington feared would be undermined by the Russian system. President Recep Tayip Erdogan has called the sanctions "an attack on Turkey's sovereignty". The U.S. decision will have implications for India as well, which has also ordered the S-400. The Trump administration has been non-committal on giving India a sanctions waiver. In the case of Turkey have purchased this anti-missile system for billions of dollars if it did not want to activate it? In October, Turkey test-fired the system and in two months, sanctions are in place.