President Biden has sent a letter to senior members of Congress urging them to quickly approve the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey as Ankara’s reward for approving Sweden’s NATO membershi...
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/25/biden-urges-congress-to-approve-f-16-sale-to-turkey/
Turkey’s parliament ratified Sweden’s NATO bid on Tuesday, bringing Stockholm one step closer to joining the military alliance. Turkey’s General Assembly voted 287-55 to approve Sweden’s ...
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/23/turkish-parliament-approves-swedens-nato-membership/
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Wednesday over his brutal campaign on Gaza, saying the Israeli leader is similar to Adolf Hitler. “They used t...
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/12/27/turkeys-erdogan-says-netanyahu-is-no-different-than-hitler/
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday submitted Sweden’s NATO bid to Turkey’s parliament, bringing Stockholm’s entrance into the Western military one step closer. “The Protocol...
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/23/erdogan-submits-swedens-nato-bid-to-turkish-parliament/
A US F-16 fighter jet shot down an armed Turkish drone over northeast Syria on Wednesday, a US official told The Wall Street Journal. According to Reuters, the Turkish Defense Ministry denied tha...
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/05/us-says-it-shot-down-turkish-drone-in-northeast-syria/
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that the Turkish parliament will ratify Sweden’s NATO membership as long as the US follows through on its plans to sell Turkey F-16 fighter j...
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday and said Moscow would return to the Black Sea grain deal if sanctions against Russia’s agricultural in...
Russia announced Monday that it was suspending its participation in a deal that was signed last year to facilitate the export of grain from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. Another aspect of the deal...
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/07/17/russia-pulls-out-of-black-sea-grain-deal/
Hungary has said it will approve Sweden’s NATO bid now that Turkey has dropped its objection, but both the Hungarian and Turkish parliaments will not take up the issue until the fall. Turkish P...
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/07/13/turkey-hungary-expected-to-ratify-swedens-nato-bid-this-fall/
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that the Biden administration will move forward with a $20 billion sale of Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. Sullivan’s comm...