Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu seeks confirmation of Turkey’s long-desired fighter jet sales. The United States also has a list of issues to which it hopes answers from Turkey.
20:04•Updated 21:05
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu traveled to the United States with the highest hopes. In discussions with the US Secretary of State by Antony Blinken with is the contribution of fighter trade.
The foreign ministers gave short statements to the press before the actual negotiations. Both ministers kept their comments to a general level and neither mentioned a single word, for example, the fighter jet trade.
Turkey hopes the US will quickly confirm the sale of 40 F-16 fighter jets.
The United States, on the other hand, is affected by Turkey’s close trade relations with Russia and the treatment of the Syrian Kurds.
American The Wall Street Journal (you will switch to another service)i reported at the turn of the week that the United States would make the fighter jet sale conditional on Turkey giving the green light to Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership.
The article is being supplemented.