{"id":531543,"date":"2026-07-08T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531543\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:05:08","slug":"donald-trump-expected-to-lift-ban-on-turkish-acquisition-of-f-35-send-six-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531543\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump expected to lift ban on Turkish acquisition of F-35, send six planes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkey is expected to receive six F-35 fighter jets<\/a> from the US as part of an initial transaction, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing Turkish officials familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The deal would depend on US President Donald Trump<\/a> reversing the ban on Ankara’s purchase of the latest generation of American fighter jets, the report noted.<\/p>\n

Turkey originally planned to buy 40-odd F-35 jets before tensions between Ankara, the US, and key allies like Israel<\/a> and Greece<\/a> led the Americans to block the transaction.<\/p>\n

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been pushing for the deal to come through, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently warned against giving the weapon to the Turks.<\/p>\n

Additionally, US lawmakers warned the Trump administration<\/a> on June 28 that selling the fighter jets could also represent a security threat, due to Turkey also building defense ties with Russia and using their S-400 air defense system.<\/p>\n

\"NewlyNewly acquired Polish F-35 Lightning II stealth strike fighters, named ‘Husarz’ in reference to the Polish ”winged hussar” cavalry units, fly in formation accompanied by F-16 jets during a flypast over Westerplatte, as part of the celebratory event dubbed ”Welcome to Poland”, in Gdansk, Poland, June (credit: Bartosz Fatek\/REUTERS)Trump praises Erdogan, still not sure about F-35 deal<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump praised Erdogan on the sidelines of the NATO summit, saying that “He’s a very strong man. People do not mess with him, but he’s really done a fantastic job.”<\/p>\n

“You could tell from the moment we got off the plane. Look at the airports – they were beautiful. They built a terminal just for me to come,” he added.<\/p>\n

He also said that he had not yet decided whether to sell F-35 jets to Turkey, but he was considering how good an ally Erdogan had been.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t totally made up my mind, but my inclination is to say, look, he’s done everything, he’s helped us in so many different ways,” Trump said during a press conference after the NATO summit in Ankara.<\/p>\n

Trump expected to approve F-35 deal after Ankara summit<\/p>\n

Trump is expected to throw his support behind the potential sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey during a visit to Ankara,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0and\u00a0The New York Times reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

When Trump was asked late last month by reporters if he would have any “gifts” for Turkey, he said: “I’m going to probably do \u2060something that will make them very happy.”<\/p>\n

Speaking alongside Trump, Vice President JD Vance said a review was underway to determine whether Turkey had complied with US laws to receive the F-35 fighter jets.<\/p>\n

“Pete and the entire team are reviewing this right now, because there are certain things that we have to certify have happened … in order to comply with American law,” he \u2060said, referring \u200bto Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said last week that Erdogan and Trump share a “strong political will” to remove US sanctions imposed on Turkey, though they declined to lay out a timetable.<\/p>\n

Idan Kweller and Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkey is expected to receive six F-35 fighter jets from the US as part of an initial transaction,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25079,90904,81363,83601,42,43,96050,40,38,41,39,1582,66266],"class_list":["post-531543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-erdogan","tag-erdogan-turkey","tag-f-35","tag-fighter-jets","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-s-400","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531543","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=531543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}