President Donald Trump says the US is not going to sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey after Ankara decided to buy a missile defense system from Russia.
The Trump administration has repeatedly told Turkey that it will be cut off from buying F-35s if it buys the S-400 Russian air defense system because it’s incompatible with NATO defenses and could jeopardize sensitive information about F-35 technologies. Turkey is a member of NATO.
Trump blamed the Obama administration for never reaching a deal to sell an American missile defense system to Turkey.
He says Turkey had ordered more than 100 F-35s but because it bought a Russian missile system, the US can’t sell it billions of dollars’ worth of aircraft.
Trump spoke Tuesday during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
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