U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday the 'time is now' for Turkey to drop its objections to Sweden joining NATO but said the Biden administration also believed that Turkey should be provided with upgraded F-16 fighters 'as soon as possible.'
maintained that the administration had not linked the two issues but acknowledged that some U.S. lawmakers had. President Joe Biden implicitly linked the two issues in a phone call to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday.
“I spoke to Erdogan and he still wants to work on something on the F-16s. I told him we wanted a deal withinsisted the two issues were distinct. However, he stressed that the completion of both would dramatically strengthen European security.
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