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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Erdoğan gains from lifting Sweden and Finland Nato veto with US fighter jet promise

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan meets with Joe Biden at the Nato summit in Madrid, Spain.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan meets with Joe Biden at the Nato summit in Madrid, Spain. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, immediately started to reap the rewards for lifting the block on allowing Sweden and Finland to join Nato when the Biden administration said it backed the potential sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey.

Speaking at a briefing call on Wednesday, Celeste Wallander, the assistant secretary for defence for international security affairs at the Pentagon, told reporters that strong Turkish defence capabilities would reinforce Nato’s defences.

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