Erdogan: Turkey has not resigned from F-35

Turkey has not resigned from the F-35 aircraft, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, arguing that his country was unjustly eliminated from the fifty-generation fighter program and that it is an issue that has technical and political dimensions on which the consultations continue. Speaking to reporters during his return to Turkey from the Netherlands, where he participated in the NATO summit, the Turkish president referred, inter alia, to US -Turkish relations, saying that they are entering a new era and despite their fluctuations, they are still strategies. “We haven’t resigned from the F-35s. We are discussing with our interlocutors our intention to return to the program. The F-35 program is a process with a technical and political dimension. Turkey has been unjustly excluded from the program. We have always criticized this move, which is not in line with the spirit of the alliance. We discussed the topic in our talks with Mr. Trump. The technical negotiations began. God […]
Source: News Beast

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