A change of tone, a change of tune by Turkish leader Erdogan?
On a U.S. military flight earlier this month, a delegation of six senators was winging its way to Vilnius, Lithuania, to attend the crucial NATO leaders’ summit.
In 2019, under the Trump administration, the United States booted Turkey as a partner in America’s F-35 stealth fighter jet program for refusing to give up the Russian anti-aircraft systems, which, if operated near F-35s, could compromise the fifth-generation fighter jet’s stealth properties. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov angrily accused Turkey of violating an agreement to hold on to the prisoners until the end of hostilities.
Then, in the run-up to the NATO summit in Vilnius, thanks in part to President Joe Biden’s promise to sell F-16s to Turkey, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg was able to broker an agreement whereby Erdogan would lift his objections to Sweden becoming the 32nd NATO nation in return for Western help reviving Turkey’s bid to join the EU.
“I don't think it's necessarily about reanchoring back to the West. It's about leveraging policy goals that he has,” Ciddi told the Washington Examiner. “His major goal right now is basically obtaining F-16 fighter jets and a requisite number of upgrade kits for Turkey’s existing fleet because the Turkish Air Force is getting old.”
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