US Set to Remove Hurdles to Sale of F-16 Fighter Jets to Turkey
An F-16 Fighting Falcon, developed by Lockheed Martin Corp.
Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
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US lawmakers are set to remove hurdles to the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey in a move that may improve frayed ties between the two allies.
The final annual defense authorization bill dropped a provision adopted by the US House of Representatives in July that would have prohibited the sale of F-16s to Turkey unless President Joe Biden certifies that providing the Lockheed Martin Corp. fighters is in the national interest and that Turkey won’t use the jets for unauthorized territorial overflights on Greece.