“Now we are done begging the Greeks to take the F-35s to give us the F-16s,” comment Turkish analysts, as Manolis Kostidis broadcasts from Istanbul.

The political analyst, Murat Getkin, reported: “Look where we have come! In 2018 Turkey had its first F-35 and Greece did not. In 2024, Turkey has a financial crisis and we will almost pray that Greece will get it. F-35 so we can get F-16s too. The F-16 is not a bad aircraft. It is 4th generation. But the only 5th generation aircraft is the F-35 which has its own technological autonomy and is invisible”.

Turkish media: “Turkish F-16s will not fly in the Aegean against Greece”

“The Greek F-35s are invisible and of new technology. The Turkish pilots were trained in the F-35 and now the Greeks took them”

SOZCU TV NETWORK REPORT: “Turkey had already paid 1.4 billion dollars for the f-35s. Who had started pilot training? If Turkey had not been excluded from the F-35 program in total it would have paid 11 billion dollars and the F-35s would have joined the Turkish Air Force. And while Turkey will get the modernized version of the F-16s, which are aircraft produced with 40-year-old technology, Greece will include in its fleet 40 F-35s, which are 5th generation aircraft. The use of the F-35 can be particularly expensive as it has the property of low visibility, enemy fighters up to a certain distance cannot detect the F-35. The F-35. they are characterized as mobile computers as they have the latest technology. In the event that no problem arises in Congress, Turkey will not be able to use the new F-16s either in the Aegean against Greece, or in the northeast of Syria.”

SOZCU TV presenter Fatih Portakal said: “I really see this news and laugh. Since the government of Turkey has no ability to foresee the developments.. Erdogan had gone to Germany and said “we will get Eurofighters even if Germany doesn’t give them to us” Could there be a government that makes such a bad bargain” .

Erdogan: “We will build a second aircraft carrier – If you do not produce your own weapons, you are not a state”

“If we don’t have our own defense industry, some wretched people will come and play magic on us”

Erdogan said: “With our defense industry, have we built our own aircraft carrier? Yes we did. Did we build our own robots? Yes we did. And we will continue Because without these, you cannot be a state. When we came to power the production of our defense industry reached 20% today we are at 80%. From there we got to this point. The goal is 100% If you don’t do this, every single wretch will come in front of you and cast spells on you. Now, God willing, we will build the second aircraft carrier, and we will accomplish this in our own shipyards.

But how did we get to this situation? How did we end up? In 2018, Greece was in an economic crisis, we had the F-35s. In 2024, we do not have the F-35s and we are waiting for the Greeks to get these aircraft. So that in the meantime we can get the F-16s and give a huge amount.”

On February 2, the screening of the film about the life of Sadiq Ahmed and the Thracian minority. The Turkish state minority television supports the film.