After US sanctions on Turkey, what happens next? Topics Insight Turkey has a number of options but a lot will depend on how the Turkey-Biden relationship kicks off. The Trump administration has officially imposed the long-anticipated sanctions on Turkey over the purchase of Russian S-400s. It was interesting that the announcement of the sanctions, which were expected to be made last week, coincided with the same day that Joe Biden was formally elected by the Electoral College. By the time the US Department of State released the press statement about the "embargo" on Monday, everyone in Washington DC had already started talking about the articles of the sanctions against Turkey.