{"id":529915,"date":"2026-07-07T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/529915\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:45:09","slug":"trump-says-will-lift-sanctions-on-turkiye-consider-selling-f-35s-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/529915\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says will lift sanctions on Turkiye, \u2018consider\u2019 selling F-35s | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Announcement during Ankara meeting suggests pivot in US policy, despite opposition from Israel.<\/p>\n

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Published On 7 Jul 20267 Jul 2026<\/p>\n

United States President Donald Trump has said he will lift sanctions on Turkiye and will soon decide on resuming sales of F-35s.<\/p>\n

The statement on Tuesday came as Trump met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a NATO leaders\u2019 summit in Ankara.<\/p>\n

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The pivot comes after the US booted Turkiye from the F-35 programme after Ankara acquired Russian S-400 air defence systems in 2019. Washington also imposed sanctions under the so-called Countering America\u2019s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be taking the sanctions off,\u201d Trump told reporters.<\/p>\n

Sitting next to Erdogan, Trump said he would soon make a determination on the sale of US F-35 fighter jets to Turkiye.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a decision we\u2019re going to make\u2026 it\u2019s a great plane, the best plane by far and it\u2019s certainly something we will consider,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Any move to return Turkiye to the F-35 programme would need to overcome a 2020 law requiring a presidential administration to determine Ankara no longer possesses or operates the Russian systems.<\/p>\n

The CAATSA sanctions, meanwhile, specifically targeted Turkiye\u2019s Presidency of Defence Industries and included US export license bans as well as financial and banking restrictions.<\/p>\n

Erdogan, for his part, told reporters he hoped for a \u201cfavourable decision\u201d on the F-35s, adding that Turkiye had previously been promised five jets.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s meeting with Erdogan comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has increasingly pressured the US not to resume F-35 sales to Turkiye.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Monday to Fox News, Netanyahu said the sale of F-35s to Turkiye would \u201cupset the power balance in the Middle East, which is ultimately guaranteed by Israeli air superiority, and also by, I think, by America\u2019s posture in the Middle East\u201d.<\/p>\n

This comes as the Trump administration has chafed with close ally Israel, as Israel\u2019s ongoing military campaign in Lebanon has repeatedly threatened to derail a preliminary ceasefire agreement to end the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n

Relations between Turkiye and Israel have tanked in recent years, despite the two countries increasing trade ties ahead of\u00a0Israel\u2019s genocidal war<\/a> on Gaza. Turkiye has been an outspoken critic of the Israeli military operation in the Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen how a reversal on selling F-35s to Turkiye would be received by US lawmakers.<\/p>\n

But speaking to Turkiye Today on Tuesday, Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch supporter of Israel, said he was open to the prospect.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere might be some pushback in Congress, but a solution might be found,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announcement during Ankara meeting suggests pivot in US policy, despite opposition from Israel. Published On 7 Jul 20267…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,46,47,43,26719,40,38,41,39,1582,1032,1156],"class_list":["post-529915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}