{"id":5790,"date":"2025-03-31T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/f-35-jets-will-not-be-sold-to-turkey\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:25:06","slug":"f-35-jets-will-not-be-sold-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/f-35-jets-will-not-be-sold-to-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"F-35 Jets Will Not Be Sold To Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"U\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>US Representative Gregory Meeks, the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, declared that the committee would block any prospective sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey. Speaking at a Greek diaspora event in New York on Saturday, March 29, 2025, Meeks stated, \u201cI can assure you that the F-35s will not be delivered to Turkey. We will ensure that Greece maintains its strategic edge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized the common principles uniting the US and Greece, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s our shared commitment to liberty, freedom, equity, and democracy that binds us together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has been pushing to lift US sanctions and re-enter the F-35 program, a collaborative effort with NATO allies it was excluded from in 2019. Meeks\u2019 remarks signal continued resistance to Turkey\u2019s ambitions regarding the advanced fighter jets.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n\t\t<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t2025, democracy, F-35, fighter jets, foreign policy, Greece, Greece news, Greek news, greek news today, Gregory Meeks, NATO, sanctions, Turkey, US Congress\t<\/div>\n<\/footer><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/us-rep-gregory-meeks-f-35-jets-will-not-be-sold-to-turkey\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Representative Gregory Meeks, the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, declared that the committee would block any prospective sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey. Speaking at a Greek diaspora event in New York on Saturday, March 29, 2025, Meeks stated, \u201cI can assure you that the F-35s will not be delivered &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"F-35 Jets Will Not Be Sold To Turkey\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/f-35-jets-will-not-be-sold-to-turkey\/#more-5790\" aria-label=\"Read more about F-35 Jets Will Not Be Sold To Turkey\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aero-india-23-major-kristin-beo-.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}