"The BBC and the West need to calm down," he said, annoyed by questions he received from BBC HARDtalk show reporter Zeinab Badawi, who interviewed him shortly before he left for London to meet with Theresa May. .
Asked questions based on criticism leveled by the Turkish president over the imposition of an authoritarian regime in his country, Erdogan called on everyone to go to Turkey to see if the elections were fair.
"Of course I want to win the election. If I do not win my opponents will be thrown out of their joy. "It is a political battle, our campaign is aimed at victory," he said.
Asked about his government's decision to buy the S-400 missile system from Russia while his country is a NATO member, he replied.
"Your approach is not right. The Secretary General of NATO made a clear statement that Member States are free to buy weapons from any country they wish. If I want to buy any weapon, whether from the United States or another NATO country, I will do it, I will buy it from where I can. "We have reached an agreement with Russia on the terms of the joint production and we will buy the S-400 system from Russia," he said, adding that the Trump administration had refused to sell similar weapons to Turkey.
Commenting on the US withdrawal from the agreement on Iran's nuclear program, Tayyip Erdogan said he did not agree with Donald Trump's decision and that this development could cause further unrest in the region. He also criticized Israel for launching rocket attacks on Iranian targets in Syria, saying he had spoken to Rouhani and that the facts were different from the Israeli version.
