Turkish officials stress that US President Joe Biden has promised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to help ensure the F-16s are sold to Ankara.
Turkish officials characterize the “block” of the sale of F-16s to Turkey by the House of Representatives as an expected development.
Specifically, according to the report of the SKAI envoy in Istanbul, Manolis Kostides, relevant information available to them both from their lobbies and from American sources, confirmed that this development was going to occur, at least in the first phase.
However, they emphasize that there are next phases, pointing out that US President Joe Biden has promised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to help so that the F-16s are sold to Ankara.
Based on the above, it is hoped that within the next few days the correlations will change.
Turkey wants the specific fighters since the country’s military knows them well since the Turkish air force has been using them for decades and Turkish pilots are particularly familiar with them.
In any case, the Turkish officials stress that there are alternative solutions without clarifying what they are.
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