⁍ A missile was fired into the sky on Friday on Turkey’s Black Sea coast.

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⁍ The video, taken in the coastal city of Sinop, showed a narrow column of smoke headed high into the blue sky.

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⁍ In recent days Turkey had issued notices restricting air space and waters off the coastal area to allow firing tests.

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– The US State Department says it “would condemn in the strongest terms the S-400 test missile launch as incompatible with Turkey’s responsibilities as a NATO Ally and strategic partner of the United States.” A US official tells Reuters that Turkey tested its Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air defense systems on Friday but did not provide details. Tests of the S-400s, if confirmed, could stoke tensions between Turkey and the United States, which sharply opposed Ankara’s purchase of the weapons from Moscow on grounds they compromise shared NATO defense systems. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said the United States has expressed to the most senior levels of the Turkish government that the acquisition of Russian military systems such as the S-400 is unacceptable, adding that Washington has been clear on its expectation that the system should not be operationalized. “If confirmed, we would condemn in the strongest terms the S-400 test missile launch as incompatible with Turkey’s responsibilities as a NATO Ally and strategic partner of the United States,” Ortagus said. US Sen. Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called the test “unacceptable behavior” from a NATO ally. He said the move damages the alliance and posed a direct threat to the F-35 and other US and NATO allies’ systems. Sen. Bob Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the committee, said President Trump’s affinity for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan posed a serious threat to the United States’ national security. “Turkey must be immediately for its purchase and use of this system,” he said.