{"id":4525491,"date":"2026-07-08T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/trump-lift-caatsa-sanctions-turkey-f35-decision-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:34:49","slug":"trump-lift-caatsa-sanctions-turkey-f35-decision-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/trump-lift-caatsa-sanctions-turkey-f35-decision-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lockt Ankara mit der F-35."},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<p>Six years ago the United States took Turkey's <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\">F-35s<\/a> away. The jets Ankara had already paid for went into storage in the Arizona desert, Turkish pilots were sent home from Luke Air Force Base, and roughly 100 stealth fighters on order evaporated. On Tuesday, sitting next to Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential palace in Ankara, Donald Trump announced the thaw.<\/p>\n<p>\"We're going to be taking the sanctions off, OK?\" Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the NATO summit, referring to the CAATSA sanctions Washington dropped on Turkey's defense procurement agency in December 2020. \"We don't want to sanction friends,\" he added, according to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>And the F-35 itself? Listen carefully to the verbs. \"That's a decision we're going to make,\" Trump said. \"It's a great plane, the best plane by far, and it's certainly something we will consider.\" Consider. Decide. Not approve, not sell, not deliver. Six years of frozen policy just got moved to the microwave, but nobody has pressed start.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;border-radius:8px;margin:8px 0 28px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li>7 July 2026, Ankara: Trump says \"We're going to be taking the sanctions off\" beside Erdogan at the presidential palace<\/li><li>CAATSA sanctions hit Turkey's defence procurement agency (SSB) in December 2020 over the S-400 buy<\/li><li>Turkey was expelled from the F-35 programme in July 2019 after taking S-400 deliveries<\/li><li>Ankara had planned to buy around 100 F-35As; Turkish firms built an estimated 900 parts for the jet<\/li><li>The 2020 NDAA bars F-35 transfers while Turkey possesses the S-400 &mdash; no presidential waiver exists<\/li><li>On F-35 sales Trump said only \"that's a decision we're going to make\" &mdash; this is not an approval<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=2074475747238986103&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:400px;border:none;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">How Turkey Lost Its Stealth Jets<\/h2>\n<p>A quick rewind for anyone who spent 2019 doing something healthier than tracking sanctions law. Turkey was a founding industrial partner in the F-35 program. Turkish companies were slated to build an estimated 900 parts for the jet, and Ankara planned to buy around 100 F-35As. The first aircraft was even rolled out at Fort Worth in June 2018, complete with ceremony and flags.<\/p>\n<p>Then Turkey went through with buying Russia's S-400 air defense system, after Washington had spent two years pushing the Patriot instead. The Pentagon's position was blunt: a Russian radar designed to hunt stealth aircraft cannot live on the same network as a stealth aircraft. When S-400 deliveries began in July 2019, the US expelled Turkey from the program within days.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2020 came the second hammer: sanctions on Turkey's Presidency of Defense Industries under CAATSA, the law Congress originally wrote with Russian election interference in mind. Turkey became the first NATO ally sanctioned under it. The jets built for Turkey were eventually absorbed by the US Air Force.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1592010741  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/u-p4-body-s-400-triumf-launcher.jpg\" alt=\"Russian S-400 Triumf launchers\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">S-400 Triumf launchers of the type Turkey bought in 2019 &mdash; the purchase that cost Ankara its F-35s. Image: Vitaly V. Kuzmin via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Law Is Not a Vibe<\/h2>\n<p>Here is where Tuesday's warm words meet cold statute. The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act explicitly prohibits transferring F-35s to Turkey unless it \"no longer possesses\" the S-400 system, or any equipment, materials or personnel associated with it. Congress wrote that language deliberately, and it did not include a presidential waiver.<\/p>\n<p>The CAATSA sanctions were likewise codified by Congress. Trump said his cabinet, including Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent and Pete Hegseth, is working on the removal, but a clean lift runs through Capitol Hill, not through chemistry with Erdogan.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The president can't waive the NDAA amendment. I suspect Trump and Erdogan are talking behind the scenes on some sort of deal to render the S-400 inoperative.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>James Jeffrey<\/strong> &mdash; former US Ambassador to Turkey, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, to Middle East Eye<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The irony everyone in Ankara knows: Turkey never actually switched the S-400 on. Much of the reportedly $2.5 billion system still sits in its boxes. Analysts told Middle East Eye the likely compromise is a deal that renders it verifiably inoperative or ships it to a third country, letting Washington certify that Turkey no longer \"possesses\" a working system.<\/p>\n<p>There is also precedent for the administration simply plowing ahead. In late June it notified Congress of a $700 million engine sale for Turkey's KAAN fighter program, rolling straight over a hold placed by Representative Gregory Meeks. Engines, however, are the low-hanging fruit. A fifth-generation stealth jet is the whole orchard.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Congress Has Entered the Chat<\/h2>\n<p>Reaction on the Hill was immediate and not exactly a standing ovation. Senator John Cornyn's entire response to the news was four words long. The Hill reported that a bipartisan group of lawmakers had already written to Trump opposing any F-35 sale to Ankara before the summit even began.<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=2074426570651910299&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:400px;border:none;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Not everyone is opposed. Senator Mike Rounds, in Ankara with a congressional delegation, told CNN that a resolved S-400 question would be \"good news for NATO.\" And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent Monday on Fox arguing the opposite, saying Turkey should get neither the F-35 nor the engines.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan, for his part, is acting like the deal is done. \"Mr. Trump has also personally given us his word on this matter,\" he said through a translator, adding that he believed a favorable F-35 decision would emerge from the summit.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full exchange between the two presidents below, including the moment Trump praises Turkey as \"much more loyal than other countries that we think would be loyal.\"<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Zez9pcHNsU\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">PBS NewsHour: Trump says the US will lift Turkey sanctions and consider selling F-35s.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What Actually Changed on Tuesday<\/h2>\n<p>The honest answer: the politics moved, the law did not. Sanctions relief is genuinely in motion, and that alone matters for Turkey's defense industry, which has spent five years routing around SSB's blacklisting. The F-35 question remains exactly where it was on Monday, parked behind an NDAA provision that requires Turkey to give up the very missiles that started this mess.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Ankara has spent the interregnum hedging beautifully: new <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-16-fighting-falcon\">F-16<\/a> modernization kits, a Eurofighter Typhoon order from Britain, and the homegrown KAAN stealth program now fitted with American engines. If the F-35 door reopens, Turkey walks through it holding a much better hand than it had in 2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=2055299037  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/u-p4-body-nato-summit-ankara.jpg\" alt=\"Trump and Erdogan shake hands in Ankara\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The handshake in Ankara: politics moved on Tuesday, the statute did not. Image: pool photo via PBS News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Watch the certification language. If the White House formally declares the S-400 gone, dismantled or exported in the coming months, this stops being a talking point and becomes a transaction. Until then, the F-35s stay exactly where Turkey's first ones ended up: somebody else's.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic\">Sources: AFP via Turkish Minute, Associated Press via PBS News, Reuters, NOTUS, Middle East Eye, The Hill<\/p><!-- mf-faq -->\n\n<div class=\"mf-faq-block\"><style>.mf-faq-block{margin:34px 0}.mf-faq-item:not([open]) .mf-faq-answer{display:none !important}.mf-faq-block h2.mf-faq-h{padding-top:22px;margin-bottom:14px}.mf-faq-item{border:1px solid #e2e8f5;border-radius:8px;margin:0 0 10px;background:#fff}.mf-faq-item summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;padding:15px 50px 15px 18px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a1a;position:relative;line-height:1.45;user-select:none}.mf-faq-item summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mf-faq-item summary::after{content:\"+\";position:absolute;right:18px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);font-size:1.5em;font-weight:400;color:#5C91FF;line-height:1}.mf-faq-item[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mf-faq-item[open] summary{border-bottom:1px solid #eef1f8}.mf-faq-item summary:hover{background:#f5f8ff}.mf-faq-answer{padding:14px 18px;color:#333;line-height:1.6}.mf-faq-answer p{margin:0}.mf-faq-answer a{color:#5C91FF}<\/style><h2 class=\"mf-faq-h\">Related Questions<\/h2><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>Why did the US remove Turkey from the F-35 program?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Turkey was a founding industrial partner in the F-35, slated to build hundreds of parts and buy around 100 jets. But after Ankara bought Russia's S-400 air-defence system in 2019, Washington expelled Turkey within days. The Pentagon's view was that a Russian radar designed to hunt stealth aircraft cannot share a network with a stealth aircraft, and the jets Turkey had paid for went into US storage.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What are the CAATSA sanctions on Turkey?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>CAATSA (Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act) is a US law originally aimed at Russia. In December 2020 Washington used it to sanction Turkey's Presidency of Defense Industries over the S-400 purchase, making Turkey the first NATO member hit by the measure. In 2026 President Trump signalled he would lift those sanctions, calling Turkey a friend.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>Will Turkey get the F-35 back?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>As of mid-2026 it is undecided. Speaking beside President Erdogan in Ankara, Trump called the F-35 something the US would consider, and announced he would lift the CAATSA sanctions, but stopped short of approving a sale or delivery. The language was to consider and to decide, not to approve or sell, so the door has opened without any firm commitment.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>Why did the S-400 purchase cause such a problem?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>The S-400 is a Russian long-range air-defence system whose radar is designed to detect and track stealth aircraft. The US argued that operating it alongside the F-35 would let Russia gather data on the jet's stealth signature. After two years of urging Turkey to buy the American Patriot instead, Washington expelled Ankara from the F-35 program when S-400 deliveries began.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What fighter jet is Turkey developing on its own?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Turkey has worked to cut its reliance on imports by developing its own stealth fighter, the KAAN, and related radar-killing aircraft, explored in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/turkey-hava-soj-electronic-warfare-jet-clearest-view\/\">Turkey's home-grown radar-killer jet<\/a>. Washington has also cleared engine support for Turkish programs, as in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/trump-700m-ge-f110-engine-sale-turkey-kaan-2026\/\">the $700M engine sale for the KAAN<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/details><\/div>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Why did the US remove Turkey from the F-35 program?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Turkey was a founding industrial partner in the F-35, slated to build hundreds of parts and buy around 100 jets. But after Ankara bought Russia's S-400 air-defence system in 2019, Washington expelled Turkey within days. 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