Turkey to seek alternatives if US fails to lift CAATSA sanctions, Fidan says

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan speaks during a quality league successful Rome, Sept. 11, 2025. [Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo]

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated during a property league successful New York that if the United States does not assistance the CAATSA sanctions preventing Turkey from purchasing F-35s and engines for its home-produced KAAN combatant jet, Ankara will question alternate solutions.

Furthermore, Fidan said that during the Trump–Erdogan meeting, the two sides agreed to work toward resolving the problems hindering the improvement of US–Turkey relations.

“One of our problems is the contented of CAATSA, which emerged aft 2019. For us, CAATSA is simply a systemic occupation that blocks the trade of defence systems betwixt two allies. For example, there is the contented of the F-35s and the KAAN combatant pitchy engines, whose licence is stuck successful Congress,” said Fidan.

“The licence indispensable beryllium granted for the engines to get so that accumulation of the KAAN tin begin. It whitethorn look to beryllium a technical issue, but systemically, when restrictions are placed connected our relations with the US, this inevitably drives us to question alternatives successful the planetary system.”