Washington had slapped restrictions on Ankara over an S-400 deal with Russia The US is relaxing sanctions on Türkiye’s defense industry and has approved a major arms deal, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced. In 2020, Washington imposed restrictions on Ankara under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) in response to Türkiye’s purchase of Russia’s S-400 air defense missile system. Ankara repeatedly rejected calls to abandon the deal with Moscow, insisting