Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is hopeful that his decade-long quest to obtain the F-35 joint strike fighter might finally succeed after an upbeat meeting with President Donald Trump at the NATO summit last week – but Trump does not seem to be in any hurry to give Erdogan his long-sought prize.
The F-35 saga began in 2001, when the U.S. military launched an ambitious – and very, very expensive – program to replace an inventory of venerable fighters like the Air Force F-16 and the Navy F/A-18.
Turkey ended up investing about $1.4 billion in developing the F-35 and hoped to procure at least a hundred of the stealthy jet fighters when…
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