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Fighter Sale to Turkey Could Pit Trump Against Congress
- A battle is brewing over the transfer of F-35 fighter jets.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are threatening to block Turkey from obtaining its promised fleet of 100 F-35 fighter jets over Ankara’s human rights violations and planned purchase of a…
- By Lara Seligman, Robbie Gramer
- FP
But it’s not clear that President Donald Trump’s administration will back them up.
Document AT-1 Turkey Rollout Ceremony Events
6/20/18
FP18-11780
Susan Turner
Turkey, the third-largest planned operator of the F-35 after the United States and United Kingdom, just received its first aircraft during a June 21 rollout ceremony at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas, facility.
But members of…