Turkey's Erdogan says US proposed F-16 sales in return for its F-35 investment

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ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday (Oct 17) that the United States had proposed the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey in return for its investment in the F-35 programme, from which Ankara was removed after purchasing missile defence systems from Russia. Reuters reported earlier

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that the United States had proposed the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey in return for its investment in the F-35 programme, from which Ankara was removed after purchasing missile defence systems from Russia.

"There is the payment of US$1.4 billion we have made for the F-35s, and the US had such a proposal in return for these payments," Erdogan said. The decades-old partnership between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies has gone through unprecedented tumult in the past five years over disagreements on Syria policy, Ankara's closer ties with Moscow, its naval ambitions in the eastern Mediterranean, US charges against a state-owned Turkish bank and the erosion of rights and freedoms in Turkey.

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