Can Turkey, a US ally and NATO member, finally be trusted with America’s premier fighter jet?

Published July 19, 2026 6:45am ET



President Donald Trump made a lot of waves at this year’s NATO summit in Ankara. And one of the biggest was when Trump suggested he might be willing to lift the six-year-old ban on sales of American F-35 stealth fighter jets to the meeting’s host country, Turkey.

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