“The delivery process will endure around one month,” the ministry said through a written statement on Aug 27.

The delivery of the first battery was completed between July 12 and July 25, the statement recounted.

A Russian cargo plane landed at Murted Air Base near Ankara just like it did during the delivery of the first batch of S-400 components.

The statement recounted that the deal on the S-400 supply was made on April 11, 2017 between Turkey and Russia as a result of bilateral talks commenced in November 2016.

Turkey on July 12 received the first shipment of the Russian S-400 air defense systems. Since then, cargo flights from Russia have been arriving on Murted Air Base in the capital Ankara.

The deployment of the first batch of the systems will be completed by the end of the year, and total deployment will finalize around April 2020, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said.

Erdogan in September 2017 announced that Turkey and Russia signed an agreement regarding the procurement of the S-400s.

Tensions between the United States and Turkey have escalated in recent months over the purchase of the Russian-made S-400s, which Washington has said will jeopardize Turkey’s role in the F-35 fighter jet program and could trigger sanctions.

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