Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have held talks over the phone regarding the situation around Russia’s S-400 missile defense systems and US F-35 fighter jets.

Axar.az reports citing Turkish media.

"The sides have discussed the situation around [the deliveries of Russian missile defense systems] S-400 and [US fighter jets] F-35, as well as the situation in Syria’s Manbij and Idlib and the creation of a safety zone in Syria," the source noted.

This is the first contact between the US and Turkey after the start of the deliveries of Russian S-400 missile defense to Turkey and Washington’s statement on the exclusion of Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program.