Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tells US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that finalising the F-16 fighter jet sale deal is useful for either side and that Ankara expects help from Congress to push via the deal.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has urged the US to elevate sanctions towards Ankara within the defence trade subject, highlighting the necessity for the US to approve the sale of F-16 fighter jets.
Cavusoglu was talking on Monday at a joint news convention with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken following a gathering on the Presidential Complex in Ankara.
During the assembly, Cavusoglu instructed reporters he had mentioned a deliberate $20 billion deal for US F-16 warplanes with Blinken, and stated that Türkiye would really like the US administration to ship the formal notification for the F-16s to Congress.
Cavusoglu stated finalising the F-16 fighter jet sale deal is useful for either side and added that Ankara anticipated help from Congress to push via the deal.
Meanwhile, Blinken stated it’s the “national interest and security interest” for the Biden administration to each improve current F-16s and supply new ones to Türkiye.
Cavusoglu additionally stated that the combat towards terrorism is a precedence merchandise on the mutual agenda, and additional urged to have more practical cooperation and collaboration within the subject of safety.
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Fight towards terrorism
Cavusoglu referred to as on his US counterpart to combat towards any sort of terrorism and terror group collectively.
He stated Türkiye believes that cooperating with terror teams towards one other one is a “deadly mistake” and that the PKK/YPG terror group isn’t combating the Daesh/ISIS terror group.
Citing the October 2019 deal signed between Ankara and Washington, Cavusoglu stated the US should fulfil its obligations arising from the deal.
Ankara and Washington reached a deal in October 2019 to pause Türkiye’s Operation Peace Spring in northern Syria for 120 hours to permit the withdrawal of YPG/PKK terrorists from a deliberate protected zone, however Türkiye stated the US didn’t fulfil its guarantees.
Blinken stated his nation “very much recognises” Türkiye’s authentic safety issues on its southern border and that the nations will “work closely together to address” the issues.
“We’re both very much focused on humanitarian assistance to the people of Syria, who, like the people of Türkiye, has suffered terribly from the earthquake and we’re working together to maximize the support that can get to them,” he added.
Their assembly comes after Blinken’s go to to the quake zone on Sunday, the place rescue work was winding down two weeks after the worst catastrophe within the nation’s trendy historical past. The quakes killed greater than 46,000 folks in Türkiye and northwest Syria.
“The United States and Türkiye do not agree on every issue but it is a partnership that has withstood against challenges,” Blinken instructed the news convention, including the the US will help Türkiye “for as long as it takes”.
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