by Oui
Mon May 5th, 2025 at 07:24:48 PM EST
Key NATO partner Türkiye the ace up Trump's sleeve to settle the Ukraine war ... Ottoman's loss of Crimea needs to be settled and Brussles may offer a path towards EU membership ...
Trump #45 and zig-zag foreign policy and lack of diplomacy with most allies beyond isolation of adversaries.
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Turkey's National Security: US confirms Turkey out of F-35 programme | TRT World - July 2019 |
Turkey says the decision by the United States to exclude it from the F-35 fighter jet programme has no legitimate justification and will damage relations between the allies. The White House has called Turkey's exclusion from the programme unfortunate, while stressing that Ankara's purchase of a Russian missile system undermines NATO. Turkey has invested heavily in building the F-35 and manufactures more than 800 parts of the aircraft.
Turkey can't have both American F-35s and Russia's S-400s: US | Al Jazeera - 16 July 2019 |
Calling it a 'tough situation', President Trump says US won't sell fighter jets to Ankara after its Russian purchase.
As the global powers are shifting ... today Trump #47
Trump mulls lifting sanctions, selling fighter jets to Turkey, media report
Trump expressed interest in resuming a deal to sell F-16 fighter jets to Ankara, and even a future sale of the newer F-35s last weekend, the outlet said, citing two sources.
Erdoğan told Trump that to improve bilateral defense cooperation, it is necessary to end the sanctions on Turkey under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).
The F-16 procurement process should also be finalized, and Turkey should be let back into the F-35 program, he said.
According to one source familiar with the request, Trump's team has requested legal and technical analysis on ways to avoid determining that Turkey is in violation of the CAATSA.
Congress approved the $23 billion sale of 40 F-16s and modernization kits for 79 planes already in the Turkish fleet last year. Negotiations between Turkey's defense ministry and Lockheed Martin, which builds the jet, are ongoing.
