Mon 01 November 2021:
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, told a news conference at the G20 summit in Rome on Sunday, that US President Joe Biden displayed a “positive approach” to the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey.
“We talked about the payment of $1.4 billion made before during our discussions. We talked about F-16s and the modernization of the F-16s we currently have… I have seen a positive approach by Biden,” Erdogan told reporters.
Earlier in the day, the Turkish and US leaders held a closed-door meeting which lasted over an hour.
Erdogan and Biden met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome. The White House said Biden “underscored his desire to maintain constructive relations, expand areas of cooperation, and manage disagreements effectively.”
The US removed Turkey from the F-35 joint strike fighter program in 2019 over its concerns because of Ankara’s purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile defense system.
Erdogan had said earlier this month that his country was in talks with the US to buy F-16 fighter jets instead of the F-35.
However, the US did not confirm that it offered Turkey the sale of F-16 fighter jets but said that it has not made Turkey a financing offer for the warplanes.
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