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Turkey, US to discuss F-35 deal in January – early February

On January 3, Akar said that Turkey and the United States were preparing to discuss the F-35 fighter jet program during a meeting in Washington in early 2022….reports Asian Lite News

Ankara and Washington will negotiate the deal on F-35 fighters in late January – early February in the United States, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Sunday.

“As for the F-35s, we asked [the US], ‘we paid this much, how shall we go about the compensation.’ The American side said they understood. We agreed to meet at the end of January – beginning of February. Our delegation will go there [to the US]. Six F-35s for Turkey are in a hangar. We are discussing what will happen to them,” Akar was quoted as saying by the Turkish Milliyet newspaper.

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On January 3, Akar said that Turkey and the United States were preparing to discuss the F-35 fighter jet program during a meeting in Washington in early 2022. On January 8, he confirmed that the preparations were well underway.

In 2019, the US suspended Turkey’s participation in its F-35 program over Ankara’s purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system and later completely removed it from the project. In October, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Washington invited Ankara to buy F-16 fighter jets as a return for its investment in the F-35 program. (ANI/Sputnik)

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