{"id":16354,"date":"2026-07-05T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=16354"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:18:00","slug":"turkey-eyes-f110-fighter-jet-engines-as-trump-comes-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=16354","title":{"rendered":"Turkey eyes F110 fighter jet engines as Trump comes to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s visit to Ankara for the NATO summit could help secure Turkey\u2019s acquisition of dozens of fighter jet engines, but won\u2019t resolve the F-35 dispute that has soured ties, analysts say.<\/p>\n<p>The July 7-8 summit, which is being hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will bring together leaders from the military alliance\u2019s 32 member states.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Trump promised to make Erdogan \u201cvery happy\u201d when asked about Turkey looking to secure F110 jet engines and being readmitted to the F-35 fighter jet programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Analysts said it would likely mean freeing up fighter jet engines Turkey wants to use in its flagship KAAN stealth fighter project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s likely to be the green light for the F110 GE engines for the KAAN fighter plane, about 40 of them. There had been obstacles to that supply and very possibly those are now being removed,\u201d Sinan Ulgen, director of the Istanbul-based Edam think tank, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurkey has produced a couple of prototypes which are flying with the F110 engine, but it has been waiting for the supply of additional engines to increase the number of KAAN platforms,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KAAN is a twin-engine stealth fighter being developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) to replace the Turkish Air Force\u2019s fleet of F-16s as Ankara seeks to join the exclusive club of nations producing fifth-generation combat aircraft, notably the US, China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Although Turkey will eventually fit the fighter with its own domestically-produced engine \u2014 the F110s lacking stealth capability \u2014 that project is still in the preliminary design phase, Defence Minister Yasar Guler said in September.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey received a first batch of 10 F110s in September, and talks with the US government to acquire 80 more were \u201congoing\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Indigenous defence systems \u2013<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s been held up by a lack of political clearance linked to Turkey\u2019s 2017 acquisition of a Russian S-400 missile defence system, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Infuriated, Washington expelled Turkey from its F-35 fighter jet programme in 2019 and imposed CAATSA sanctions a year later, hampering Turkish defence projects and souring ties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CAATSA issue must be resolved. The US needs to take steps both regarding the F-35 and the engines for KAAN. KAAN\u2019s engines are currently awaiting approval in the US Congress,\u201d Fidan said, his remarks raising eyebrows back home as Turkey had said the KAAN would be entirely domestically produced.<\/p>\n<p>Ankara\u2019s F-35 exclusion has forced it to refocus on self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome argue we should not buy F-35s and invest that money into our own fifth-generation fighter jet programme. And that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening with President Trump\u2019s decision to export jet engines,\u201d Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, head of the German Marshall Fund in Ankara said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout those engines, Turkey cannot produce the KAAN jet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 F-35 deadlock drags on \u2013<\/p>\n<p>With a KAAN delivery date many years away, only Indonesia has placed an order, signing a $10bn contract to buy 48 fighters, although the NATO summit could generate further interest, Ulgen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at the failure of the German-French FCAS initiative, there may be some interest. Spain could potentially become a partner and there may be interest from the Gulf as well\u2026 But there are more obstacles to be overcome for it to become a credible offer on the international stage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Experts expected little progress on the lingering F-35 dispute: for Congress to lift the CAATSA sanctions, Ankara would have to get rid of the S-400 \u2014 but selling it to a third country would require Moscow\u2019s approval, and returning it to the Russians was not on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US administration might wish to\u2026 put this issue behind it and sell Turkey some F-35, but that will go to Congress and changing the congressional decision won\u2019t be easy,\u201d said Professor Mustafa Aydin, an international relations expert at Istanbul\u2019s Kadir Has University.<\/p>\n<p>But Matthew Bryza, a retired US envoy and former senior White House and State Department official, said Trump could move to resolve the matter as the F-35 was an executive decision which he could easily reverse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump can certainly declare that the S-400\/F-35 dispute is finished. It\u2019s the CAATSA sanctions that require congressional action. Whether he can persuade Congress to do that, depends on how much political capital he\u2019s willing to expend,\u201d he told AFP of a move that could be \u201cpolitically costly in the lead up to the midterm elections\u201d due to Turkey\u2019s opponents in the Greek and Armenian diaspora.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; height:258px; background:#ff6b6b; display:grid; place-items:center;\">\r\n    <!-- JuicyAds v3.0 -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async src=\"https:\/\/poweredby.jads.co\/js\/jads.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins id=\"1114307\" data-width=\"908\" data-height=\"258\"><\/ins>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async>(adsbyjuicy = window.adsbyjuicy || []).push({'adzone':1114307});<\/script>\r\n<!--JuicyAds END-->\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u7b2c\u4e8c\u901a\u680f\uff1a728\u00d790 \u901a\u680f -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; 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