Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. File photoANKARA, Jan 27 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with Turkish television channel NTV that negotiations between Ankara and Washington on the supply of F-35 fighter jets are going in a positive direction.» Talks between US officials and the ministry Turkey's national defense F-35 are developing in a positive direction,» Erdogan said. The United States previously sent an official notice to Turkey about its exclusion from the program for the supply of the latest F-35 fighters due to Ankara's purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems. The US canceled the joint memorandum on the F-35 signed by Turkey in January 2007, signing it with the seven remaining partners in the F-35 project — the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, Denmark, Canada and Norway. The Turkish President has said that the United States offered his country to buy F-16 fighters after it was excluded from the F-35 supply program. Why Erdogan's dream of empire collapsed
