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The S-400 Knot in U.S.-Turkey Relations: Assessing the Viability of U.S. Sanctions Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets Russian President Vladimir Putin in January 2020. (President of the Russian Federation, https://tinyurl.com/y5hpqcu5; CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) The U.S.-Turkey relationship fractured along numerous fault lines in recent years. President Trump’s refusal to implement sanctions required by the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) for Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems has drawn sustained bipartisan congressional ire since summer 2019. Reports suggest that the Trump administration will finally implement CAATSA sanctions as early as today in an effort to get ahead of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which will require the president to implement sanctions within 30 days of the defense spending bill’s enactment. The provision in the bill w

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