Erdogan proposed to Biden to approve Sweden’s entry into NATO in exchange for the sale of F-16 fighter jets

The president of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdoganthis Tuesday reiterated its approach to unblocking the entry of Sweden at the NATO in exchange for U.S authorize sale to your country of F-16 fighter-bombers, and he communicated this to his American counterpart, Joe Biden.

“It is known that we send the access protocol of the Sweden The NATO to the (Turkish) Parliament. The theme of Sweden It was also discussed during the conversation I had (last Thursday) with the US president, Joe Biden“, he said Erdogan to the press on the plane he returned this morning from an official visit to Budapest.

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Erdogan I affirm this Biden He told him that if he approved the entry of Swedenhe brought up the topic F-16 for Congress American.

“Foreign Ministers, Anthony Blinken It is Hakan Fidan, must manage this issue simultaneously; If it is simultaneous, we can approve it much more easily“, he said Erdogan.

However, the Turkish head of state said that approval by the Turkish Parliament is also hampered by “lto the negative attitude of Canada and other allied countries in relation to the purchase of defense material“, according to the Turkish agency Anadolu.

“All of this is related. If the positive advances that we expect so much from the United States on the issue of F-16 like Canada As far as your promises are concerned, I believe that our Parliament It will also accelerate your positive opinion”he added.

The party of Erdoganthe Islamic AKPand its coalition partner, the ultranationalist HPMhave an absolute majority in Parliament, so it is assumed that voting will be a mere procedure, since Erdogan decide to give the green light.

In recent months, Erdogan has already insinuated several times that, contrary to what he claimed until this summer, the sale of fighter jets, blocked by Congress American, is a decisive factor in approving the entry of Sweden at the NATOawaiting only Turkish approval and that of Hungary.

“If they have a Congress, I have a Parliament“, he said Erdogan several times, alluding to the fact that he will use the chamber’s vote as a pressure measure to overcome the reluctance of part of the US political establishment towards Turkey.

Source: Elcomercio

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