Erdogan Urges Germany to End Ban on Eurofighter Jet Sales to Turkey
- Leaders also discuss warship engines, nuclear plant equipment
- Scholz’s government has blocked sale of Eurofighters to Turkey
A Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet.
Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to lift a block on the sale of Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Turkey, as his country scales back a $23 billion contract for F-16s with the US.
The leaders also discussed Turkey’s request to buy engines for its warships, Erdogan said after a NATO summit in Washington. “We also want to receive turbines by Siemens, which are the most critical unit of our Akkuyu nuclear plant,” he said, referring to a $24 billion plant being built by Russia on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.