Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan mentioned on Friday he hoped constructive steps might be taken on Turkey’s function within the F-35 jet program as soon as US President-elect Joe Biden takes workplace, describing Ankara’s exclusion for buying Russian defenses as a “serious wrong”.
Last month, Washington imposed long-anticipated sanctions on Turkey’s protection business over its acquisition of S-400 missile protection programs from Moscow, in a transfer Turkey referred to as a “grave mistake”.
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The United States has additionally eliminated fellow NATO member Turkey from the F-35 program over the transfer.
Washington says the S-400s pose a menace to its F-35 fighter jets and to NATO’s broader protection programs. Turkey rejects this, saying S-400s won’t be built-in into NATO and buying them was a necessity because it was unable to obtain air protection programs from any NATO ally on passable phrases.
“No country can determine the steps we will take toward the defense industry, that fully depends on the decisions we make,” Erdogan informed reporters in Istanbul, including Ankara was in talks to obtain a second cargo of S-400s from Russia and would maintain talks on the difficulty later this month.
“We don’t know what the Biden administration will say at this stage (on the S-400s),” he added. “Despite having paid a serious fee on the F-35s, the F-35s still have not been given to us. This is a serious wrong the United States did against us as a NATO ally,” he mentioned.
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“My hope is that, after we hold talks with Biden as he takes office, we will take much more positive steps and put these back on track.”
Biden might be inaugurated on Jan. 20, changing incumbent Donald Trump, with whom Erdogan had a detailed relationship.
Ankara has mentioned it hopes for higher with Washington then.
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Last Update: Friday, 15 January 2021 KSA 16:06 – GMT 13:06
