Erdogan reveals when S-400 to arrive in Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the first delivery of the Russian S-400 missile defense system would take place within 10 days.

"Within 10 days, maybe within one week, the first shipment will have arrived. I told Trump this openly," the Hurriyet newspaper cited Erdogan as saying.

Speaking to reporters after the G20 summit in Japan, where he held bilateral talks with Trump, Erdogan said he believed the dispute over the S-400s would be overcome "without a problem" and added that his U.S. counterpart supported Turkey in the dispute.

"In our phone calls, when we come together bilaterally, Mr Trump has not said so far: ‘We will impose these sanctions.’ On the S-400s, he said to me: ‘You are right.’ We carried this issue to a very advanced level," Erdogan said, according to broadcaster NTV.