Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague late Tuesday in a bid to turn the page on strained relations between the two nations.

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.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to lobby German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for support on Turkey’s bid to purchase Eurofighter Typhoon jets during a meeting on the sidelines of this week’s NATO summit,