more “optimistic” than ever, he declared the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for the purchase of F-16 from the USA in a press conference he gave after the NATO Summit and after the meeting he had with the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, pointing out that he does not intend to use them against Greece.

As he saidTurkey intends to make more friends than enemies in the future and referred to the prospect of buying F-16s from the US, according to Anadolu.

“We hope that we will have a positive result. I’m more optimistic than ever” he said characteristically and added: “We have never used our F-16s against Greece, and we do not intend to use them against Greece moving forward.”

For Sweden’s accession to NATO

About the process Sweden’s accession to NATOErdogan said: “I believe that when Parliament opens, this will be the convention that our Speaker of Parliament will highlight in international conventions” he said.

At the same time, he pointed out that “Turkey is a country that has always supported NATO’s open door policy. So far, we have not arbitrarily prevented any country from joining the alliance,” he said.

On the grain deal

Regarding the grain agreement, the Turkish president said that “Mr. Zelensky is in favor of continuing the initiative and Mr. Putin has made some proposals. Taking into account these suggestions, we are working in a way to find a solution” and continued:

“If the two sides (Russia-Ukraine) propose or accept us to act as mediators, we will gladly accept such mediation.”