Turkey and US to hold a meeting on F-35 fighters in the coming days

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At the same time, the procurement and modernization process for Turkey's F-16 is currently underway, the report says.

In October 2021, the United States and Turkey held consultations on the F-35 program, from which Ankara was excluded after the purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense systems.

As noted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he said that the United States offered Ankara to purchase F-16 fighters after it was excluded from the F-35 fighter program.

In 2019, Turkey was excluded from the F-35 fifth generation fighter program.

Turkish companies have participated in it since 2002 and supplied components.