Turkey

Participation in F-35 Lightning II Program Suspended. The F-35 represented one of Turkey's most expensive, crucial, and diplomatically delicate procurements. Not only was the project broad – Ankara committed to purchase at least 100 of the conventional A variants – but, priced at $1.25 billion, it was expensive. Further, at a time when the U.S. was unwilling to sell the aircraft to strategically aligned Gulf Arab partners out of concerns for Israel's qualitative military edge and...