President Donald Trump says he will lift sanctions on Turkey and overturn a ban on selling the US’s Nato ally F-35 warplanes, but experts say he has “no magic wand” to do so without buy-in from Congress.
“We’re going to be taking the sanctions off,” Trump said on Tuesday, sitting next to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at his presidential palace in Ankara.
“We don’t want to sanction friends. It’s very simple.”
Trump added that he is mulling a sale of F-35 warplanes to Turkey.
“That’s a decision we’re going to make… It’s a great plane, the best plane by far, and it’s certainly something we will consider,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the Nato summit in Ankara.
