Türkiye renounces the F-35s: the US to return 1.4 billion dollars

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said his country would no longer wait for US-made F-35 fighter jets to arrive. "We will seek the return of $1.4 billion." The United States had previously sent an official notice to Turkey on its exclusion from the program for the supply of the latest generation F-35 fighters due to Ankara's purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems. The states canceled the joint F-35 memorandum with Turkey, signing it with the seven remaining partners in the F-35 project: England, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, Denmark, Canada and Norway. Turkish President Erdogan subsequently announced a US proposal to buy more fighters, not fifth but fourth generation, the F-16. This issue must be agreed to in the US Congress: The State Department is lobbying this issue, convincing members of Congress that the deal "serves Washington's interests." "We want our money now. We want the money." that we paid there be returned. Our friends in ministry have gathered and reviewed the steps we will take moving forward. Now we are taking care of ourselves. We don't want to sit around and wait for Congressional approval, we don't want the situation turns into a snake story like with Patriot air defense,” Cavusoglu told Turkish media.