President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey has not given up on acquiring F-35 fighter jets from the United States and has conveyed its desire to rejoin the programme from which it was removed over its purchase of Russian defence systems.

The Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile systems alone are not sufficient to meet Turkey’s comprehensive air defense needs, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his pool reporters upon returning from The Hague,

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is poised to meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit in a bid to turn the page on strained relations between the two countries, people familiar with the matter said.