President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) would make it easier for Turkey to buy F-16 fighter jets.
of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest service fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under the color of official right. Federal law enforcement authorities are accusing Menendez of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from various businessmen, including one with links to the government of Egypt, in exchange for using his position in the Senate to advance their interests.
“Those behind this campaign simply cannot accept that a first-generation Latin American from humble beginnings could rise to be a U.S. senator,” hein a statement last week following the publication of the indictment. In a press conference on Monday, he admitted to keeping large amounts of cash in his home but attributed it to generational trauma regarding the mass theft of personal property by communists in Cuba following Fidel Castro’s 1959 coup.
Turkey is a member of NATO, which typically facilitates the purchase of American military equipment as the United States is part of that alliance. Erdogan has repeatedly violated NATO protocol, however, outraging fellow NATO members the most with the“We object to Turkey’s purchase of the system, and are deeply concerned with reports that Turkey is bringing it into operation.
“Turkey’s decision to purchase Russian S-400 air defense systems renders its continued involvement with the F-35 impossible,” the Trump White House statement at the time. “The F-35 cannot coexist with a Russian intelligence collection platform that will be used to learn about its advanced capabilities.”
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