For the Eurofighter fighter aircraft that Turkey seeks to acquire but also for its meeting with the US president Donald Trumpspoke today (25.06.2025) by Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
At the NATO Summit in The Hague, Erdogan gave a press conference and answered journalists’ questions about Turkish Armed Forces equipment programs, reference to Eurofighter fighter aircraft.
Of course, the Turkish president also referred to Donald Trump’s Wed Tet, stressing that Among the topics discussed were 5th-generation F-35 Stealth fighter aircraft.
Initially, Erdogan said that the increase in defense spending decided by NATO member states was a necessity that has emerged from the various conflicts that have arisen in the wider area in recent years.
At this point, Erdogan stressed that Turkey would fulfill its obligations in NATO by raising spending while referring to meetings with both British Prime Minister Kir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz on the case of the Eurofighter fighter fighter.There are positive developments » on this issue.
For the long -awaited meeting with Donald Trump, Erdogan stressed that They did not discuss at all about the Russian S-400 air defense missile systems as “this issue is over”but clarified that they talked about Stealth F-35 fighter aircraft.
#BREAKING ‘We discussed the F-35 issue. We made payment of $1.3B-$1.4B for F-35s, and we saw that Mr. (Donald) Trump was well-intentioned about delivering them,’ President Erdogan pic.twitter.com/QoZj0cI2xi
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“We paid about $ 1.3 billion for the F-35s. We saw that Trump has good intentions for their delivery“Erdogan said.
It is recalled that Turkey was eliminated by the F-35 fifty-generation fighter fighter program after the purchase of S-400 Russian air defense systems, while receiving the “green light” to upgrade 79 F-16s at the Viper level and the purchase of 40 new fighters.