President Donald Trump faces some stiff bipartisan opposition in Congress if he intends to proceed with selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, as he suggested when he arrived in Ankara for the NATO summit on Tuesday.
Turkey was one of the NATO members involved in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program from the beginning, 25 years ago, but it was kicked out of the program in July 2019, under the first Trump administration. Trump reluctantly banned F-35 sales to Turkey because it insisted on purchasing Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles despite repeated pleas and warnings from the U.S. and other NATO countries. The S-400 purchase was…
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