Turkey approached France to procure European-made air defense systems, Turkish officials familiar with the matter said, Bloomberg reported.

In a phone call earlier this week, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to drop his opposition to co-production of Eurosam’s SAMP/T missile-defense systems, the officials said.

Macron responded by saying that Turkey must clarify its objectives in Syria before deployment of European made systems could be considered, according to an Elysee official.