The Turkish president threatened that if Washington does not grant Ankara the F-16s then it will turn to other solutions. “We will take care of ourselves,” he said
Intensely annoyed, he appears Recep Tayyip Erdogan from the support provided by the United States to Greece.
As the SKAI correspondent from Istanbul, Manolis Kostidis, reports, the Turkish president complains that the US is giving Greece fightersestablish bases, but impose sanctions on Turkey.
He threatened that if Washington does not grant Ankara the F-16s then will turn to other solutionsmeaning the supply of fighters possibly from France or Russia, as he had stated in the past.
“Between two friendly countries, it is very wrong with a political approach to impose sanctions on Turkey over the issue of F-16s. Mr. Biden promised me the resolution of the issueTayyip Erdoğan said in an interview with the PBS television network.
“What are we going to do if we don’t get the result we want from the United States in terms of the F-16s? We will take care of ourselves. I mean you will give Greece all kinds of support for the F-16s, you will establish bases there, but you will not give that support to a friendly country like Turkey in NATO and to a country that provides all kinds of support to NATO? We are in the first five countries. In this case, Turkey’s job is to take care of itself. Otherwise, we don’t have a problem with America.”
Regarding his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, which is a “red flag” for the US, the Turkish president characteristically stated that “no one will tell me who I will meet.”
“We belong neither only to the West nor only to the East. A large part of our country geographically belongs to the East. Inevitably, we may find ourselves in a situation to enter into different pursuits,” he said specifically.
Alongside opened fire against the EU and emphasized that Ankara will not be accountable to it: “The European Union will keep us for 52 years, it will not let us join it and then, it will say “Why did you meet with him, why did you see the other? “. See you later. I will meet and when we have these meetings we will not be accountable to the European Union at this point.. I will also meet with Mr. Putin and Mr. Xi and Mr. Modi.”
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