U.S. Envoy Expects Trump, Erdogan to Resolve Arms Sanctions on Turkey This Year -Anadolu
- Earlier this month, US Ambassador Tom Barrack said both sides are reviewing their broader agenda, signaling constructive progress and a potential resolution by year-end.
- Turkey’s 2019 purchase of the Russian S-400 system, worth $2.5 billion, led to its expulsion from the F-35 program and CAATSA sanctions over security concerns.
- Turkey invested about $1.4 billion and produced F-35 components until 2022, despite sanctions and storage of six jets at Luke AFB.
- Following NATO summit talks, Erdoğan confirmed that technical discussions on F-35 reintegration have resumed, with a solution possible by year-end.
- US Ambassador Tom Barrack signals progress on Turkey's F-35 reintegration, with talks possible to conclude by year-end amid broader NATO and policy realignment efforts.
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US envoy expects Trump, Erdogan to resolve arms sanctions on Turkey this year: Anadolu
ANKARA - The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said he expects Donald Trump and Tayyip Erdogan to resolve long-standing defence-related sanctions on Turkey by year end, according to an interview with state owned Anadolu Agency. Read more at straitstimes.com.


U.S. envoy expects Trump, Erdogan to resolve arms sanctions on Turkey this year -Anadolu
ANKARA (Reuters) -The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said he expects Donald Trump and Tayyip Erdogan to resolve long-standing defence-related sanctions on Turkey by year end, according to an interview with state owned Anadolu Agency.
Turkey-US arms spat to be settled ’by year’s end’: US envoy
US sanctions on Turkey's defence sector over its purchase of a Russian air defence system are likely to be ended by the year's end, the US envoy to Ankara said Sunday. Speaking to state news agency Anadolu, Tom Barrack said US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan would instruct their top diplomats to "figure out the way and end it and Congress will support an intelligent solution". With both sides committed to …
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