måndag 6 juli 2026

Netanyahu: Do not sell F-35 to Turkey

Israels premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu. Arkivbild. 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Archive photo. Photo: Ronen Zvulun/AP/TT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is advising the United States against selling the advanced F-35 fighter jet to Turkey.

The call comes ahead of President Donald Trump's trip to the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, this week.

- I don't think they should get the F-35 or the engines for their fighter jets, because it will upset the balance of power in the Middle East, Netanyahu said on the American Fox News program Fox & Friends.

Turkey was excluded from the F-35 program in 2019 after the country bought Russian air defense systems. But last month, Trump promised to make Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "very happy" after he was asked about the F-35 and
 

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