US Representative Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has said that the committee would oppose any potential sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey.
“I can tell you that the F-35s will not go to Turkey. We’re going to make sure that Greece continues the strategic advance that it has,” he said at a Greek diaspora event in New York on Saturday.
“It is our shared values – values of liberty, values of freedom, values of equity, and values of democracy – that makes us together,” he added.
Turkey has been seeking to have US sanctions lifted and to rejoin the F-35 program, which it helped develop with other NATO partners before it was kicked out in 2019. -ekathimerini
