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Turkey has previously been on this list. This is more jaw jaw than war war, similarly to the S-400 sanctions. Turkey’s mood is “dead mice feel no cold.” If it does not face a real enforcement such as losing access to the SWIFT system, the noise has no immediate impact.
Genuine: The Erdogan regime wants to buy F16s with the money it’s paid for F35s. Democratic and Republican US lawmakers urged the Biden administration not to sell F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, while saying that they were confident Congress would block any such export deal.
SADAT: Melih Tanriverdi denied in a written interview with AFP that his SADAT International Defense Consultancy trains Syrians who then get dispatched to support pro-Turkish forces in war zones such as Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh. The US has raised the allegation.
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