US considers Turkey hostile, does not sell most recent F-35 planes

Fearing that the Recep Tayip Erdogan government is increasing “all day after day of hostility and authoritarianism”, US lawmakers have called for halting the sale or transfer of F-35 aircraft to Turkey, reports “RT” Transmission Periscope.

Turkey has sought to buy 116 F-35 units under joint combat programme agreements signed in 2014 and 2016. The shipments of aircraft produced by the US public contractor Lockheed Martin is meant to send in 2018-2019, but this has been markedly jeopardised after relations between Ankara and Washington have deteriorated sufficiently recently on a number of issues such as Turkish military operations in Syria and purchasing S-400 missile defence system from Russia.

Under NATO's nuclear divide, the US holds about 180 B61 nuclear nuclear bombs in Europe, including about 50 at the Incirlik air base in Turkey. And the rest keep it in the other five places: Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Italy.

In a letter to American lawmakers, US congregator David Cicilen argues that the preservation of 50 nuclear weapons in Turkey is dangerous and irrational./Periscopi/