President Joe Biden has urged congressional lawmakers to approve the sale of F-16 warplanes to Turkey, after that country agreed to allow Sweden’s entry into NATO.
Biden wrote of his wish in a letter Wednesday to the leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Biden had made Turkey’s approval of Sweden’s NATO membership a prerequisite for the sale of those jets, and Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also linked the two issues. The Turkish parliament voted to accept Sweden’s accession on Tuesday, sending the measure back to Erdogan for his signature. That leaves Hungary as the lone holdout to the defense alliance’s northern enlargement. Läs artikel