ZONAJAKARTA.com – The opportunity for Turkey to have the American F-35 fighter plane seems to have disappeared.
Not only the F-35, but the United States is also reluctant to provide the F-16 to reinforce the Turkish Air Force.
On the other hand, Turkey must fulfill a condition if it wants the F-16 to become its country.
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez listed the conditions under which he could waive his objections to the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey.
It also includes Ankara abandoning Russia’s S-400 air defense system and severing its close ties with Moscow, the AMNA news agency reported on Thursday.
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The senator told Greek news agencies that the United States would sell military equipment to those of equal value, “not just for financial gain”, and listed a number of issues where Ankara needs to change its behavior and its policies. attitudes.
Among them are problems with the acquisition of Russian S-400 systems, flights over the Greek islands, Turkey’s close ties with Russia and human rights violations, including the imprisonment of journalists and of lawyers.
Quote from the page Eurasian timeMenendez added that the list of problems is unusually long and that they must be solved to achieve the sale and modernization of the F-16 jets, but he did not see the will of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to s attack one of them.
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