Ankara Wants To Use Payments For F-35s To Fund F-16 Buys

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Credit: USAF
LONDON—The Turkish government is hoping it can use $1.6 billion that it paid for U.S. F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to pay for new-build F-16s and upgrades to its existing fleet. Earlier this month it emerged that Ankara had made requests to Washington to purchase as many as 40 new-build F-16s and 80...

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