Το εν λόγω σχέδιο νόμου εγκρίθηκε με απόλυτη πλειοψηφία (60-1) από την αρμόδια επιτροπή και πλέον ξεκινούν οι πολιτικές διεργασίες που αφορούν τον διάλογο για την υποβολή τροπολογιών. Αν τελικά η συγκεκριμένη πρόβλεψη τεθεί σε ισχύ μετά τη διαδικασία, οι περιορισμοί που θα επιβληθούν στις στρατιωτικές προμήθειες της Τουρκίας θα είναι ευρείας κλίμακας, και θα συμπεριλαμβάνουν μεταξύ άλλων πωλήσεις αεροσκαφών F-35 Lightning II JSF και F-16 Fighting Falcon, ελικοπτέρων CH-47 Chinook, H-60 Blackhawk και πυραύλων Patriot.
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18/5/18
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American lawmakers have introduced a new bipartisan bill seeking to ban F-35 deliveries to an "increasingly hostile and authoritarian" Turkey, partly because of Ankara's decision to purchase Russia's missile defense systems.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήSeeking to pressure Turkey into behaving in a manner worthy of NATO "standards," and to limit sharing of the alliance's assets with "hostile actors," Democratic Rhode Island Congressman David Cicilline introduced a bipartisan 'Ban F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Sales to Turkey Act' on Thursday.
Fearing that Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government is growing "increasingly hostile and authoritarian by the day," US lawmakers are calling for a complete ban on the sale or transfer of F-35 aircraft, as well as intellectual property and technical data, to Turkey. Any potential transfers of the multirole stealth fighters would only be possible if the US president certifies that Ankara is not "taking steps to degrade NATO interoperability, exposing NATO assets to hostile actors, or degrading the general security of NATO member countries."
RT