Ankara welcomed on Wednesday the final text of the US defense budget that excludes conditions on the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, saying the swift finalization of the sale would be “in everyone’s interest.”
“We knew before [the bill's text became public Tuesday] that the two [conditions attached to the sale] were removed from the final text,” Cavusoglu said at a press conference with his Moldovan counterpart Nicu Popescu in Istanbul. “What is important now is to finalize the process as soon as possible … which will be in everyone’s interests.”
