The American president sent a letter to Congress Joe Biden requesting approval for the sale of F-16s to Turkey.

The Turkish media reports that this is not an official letter, but a consultation.

“Now Washington will wait for the official document of acceptance of the approval of Sweden’s accession to NATO” they say, as broadcast from Istanbul by Manolis Kostidis.

CNN Turk’s Washington correspondent Yunus Paksoy reported: “What we understand is that the US president has written a letter advising Congress to approve the sale (of the F-16s). This is not an official request. A letter was sent to leading members of Congress urging them to sell F-16s to Turkey.

Ahmet Hakan, editor of the Hurriyet newspaper, asked: “Could we say that this is the first step we have been waiting for?”

Paxoi replied: “Yes, that’s it. To create mutual trust. But Congress is waiting for the formal request. As if the request is sent by official letter to start the 15 day process for the sale. This letter was the goodwill step of the US which states, “Since you approved Sweden, I am also writing to Congress and telling them, gentlemen, let’s approve this.

The process is this. Turkey has accepted Sweden, Biden has sent a letter, Turkey will deliver the official documents of acceptance and the White House will send the official request.”

Concern for supremacy in the Aegean

“Greece will get F-35s, will we lose air supremacy in the Aegean?”

Attack of the Turkish official opposition on the Erdogan government

“We lost the F-35s because you wanted S-400s. Now the Greeks will take it”

Oguz Kaan Saliji, MP of the Republican People’s Party: “Where are the F-35s? They do not exist! Where is the money? In the USA! Where are the S-400s? In the warehouses! Where is their money? In Russia! Where are the F-16s? They will come if God wills!

» Greece will have F-35, while we will have F-16, which means the loss of air supremacy in the Aegean. That’s the gist of the ‘diplomatic success’ talk, but we have a tip for you. You have been “fooled” many times by now, don’t be fooled again, because we are not sure you will get the F-16s. You have been promised many times by the USA in the past and it stuck in the Senate and now America is entering an election season . After so many of your antics, if the US stops you and if after the F-35s you don’t manage to bring the F-16s, don’t come to Parliament because you won’t have the power to face the people.”

Turkish analysts: “The Greeks having more F-16s is not a survival problem for Turkey”

“We had retreated all the way to Ankara and then we threw them at Smyrna”

Military analyst Yusuf Albarda said: “Turkey’s exclusion from the F-35 program and the difficulties caused by the US with the excuse of Congress may be a threat factor but it is not a survival problem. This people retreated as far as the region of Polatli but then threw them (into the sea) at Smyrna. It will be a mistake to say that ‘Greece has more F-16s like the Greeks have 10 F-16s, we have 8 and it is a problem of survival’ as this logic turns the battlefield into a simple accounting field”.

Reception of the president of Iran in Turkey – Erdogan emphasized that relations will continue.

The president of Iran did not shake hands with the president of the Central Bank of Turkey.

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