Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has expressed confidence that Turkey will receive the F-35 fighter jets it paid for years ago, stating there should be "no problem" in acquiring them.
"As you said, I mean, the political is well there. I mean, President Trump and President Erdogan, when they came together last year in September in Washington, D.C., even, you know, before this meeting, they decided to remove all the obstacles about F-35 project. So ever since that, we've been working on that. And I think we will reach solution soon enough. So there'll be no problem for Turkey to get F-35 that we had paid for long before, five, six years ago. We had paid for those F-35s. They've been sitting in a hangar to be picked up by us. Yes. But the American Congress introduced an NDA Act specifically describing Turkey, you know, prohibiting from doing that. So, but there's a provision there, and I think we'll get over this, yeah. You see that being resolved, yeah."
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has expressed confidence that Turkey will receive the F-35 fighter jets it paid for years ago, stating there should be "no problem" in acquiring them.