The statement was published on the website of the Foreign Ministry of Turkey.
"The White House and the US Department of Defense announced that our country will be excluded from the F-35 program because of the supply of C-400 air defense systems," the statement said.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that this "unilateral step is not related to the spirit of alliance and has no legal basis."
“It is unfair that Turkey, which is one of the main partners of the F-35 program, has been excluded from it,” the ministry said.
The report stresses that the allegation that the C-400 is threatening the F-35 is groundless and notes that “the unanswered proposal of Turkey to establish a working group on this issue with the participation of NATO is the most obvious sign of bias on the part of the United States and unwillingness to conscientiously solve this problem. "
Earlier, the White House announced the incompatibility of purchases by Turkey S-400 and F-35.
Later in the US defense department told about the financial losses of Turkey due to the exclusion from the program of creating F-35 aircraft.