Turkey’s approval of Sweden’s request to join NATO can provide an opening to resolve the outstanding issues between Ankara and Washington, ending one of the worst decades in Turkey-US relations, analysts believe.
The US State Department is expected to formally notify Congress over the sale of 40 new-generation F-16 jet fighters and 79 modernization kits to Turkey next week, as first reported by Al-Monitor.
Congress is not expected to mount a serious opposition to the Biden administration’s sale decision provided that Ankara does not take actions that might offend its detractors in Washington. And the conclusion of the sale can have a potential to reverse the downtrend in Turkey-US ties — a trend that has been ongoing for almost a decade now.
A brief history of the worst decade in US-Turkish ties
