Top Democrat Rebuffs Biden’s Potential F-16 Sale to Turkey

The chairman of the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee vowed Friday to hold back the Biden administration’s plan to sell fighter jets to Turkey, unless Ankara improves its human rights record and ceases threatening other NATO allies.
“As I have repeatedly made clear, I strongly oppose the Biden administration’s proposed sale of new F-16 aircraft to Turkey,” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said in a statement. It has been over a year since NATO member Turkey requested in October 2021 to buy 40 U.S.-made F-16 fighters and nearly 80 modernization kits for its existing warplanes. Technical talks between the two sides recently concluded….}