US President Donald Trump signalled on Wednesday that Turkey could be allowed to rejoin the F-35 fighter jet programme ahead of a NATO summit in Ankara next month.<\/p>\n
Asked whether he would bring good news to Ankara regarding Turkey’s participation in the programme, Trump replied: “I think so.”<\/p>\n
The question also referred to a US-made engine that Turkey is seeking for another fighter aircraft project.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to probably do something that’s going to make them very happy,” Trump, who was meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House, told reporters.<\/p>\n
Relations between Washington and Ankara were strained during Trump’s first term after Turkey purchased Russia’s S-400 air defence system in 2019. The United States subsequently removed Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet programme and later imposed sanctions on Turkey’s defence procurement agency.<\/p>\n
Vice President JD Vance said the administration was reviewing whether Turkey met the requirements for renewed participation in the programme, with the process still ongoing.<\/p>\n
Trump also highlighted what he described as his good relationship with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, saying the Turkish leader was a controversial figure but noting that he himself was as well.<\/p>\n
Trump added that he thinks Erdo\u011fan is “a very good person,” and said he might not even attend the NATO summit in the Turkish capital on July 7-8 were it not for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump signalled on Wednesday that Turkey could be allowed to rejoin the F-35 fighter jet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,1294,2908,7,278,466],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fighter-aircraft","tag-g20-summit","tag-nato","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}