Ties between Turkey and the United States were badly strained last year when Turkey bought Russian S-400 defense systems, prompting Washington to threaten sanctions and to suspend Turkish involvement in its F-35 jet program.
Turkey on Tuesday repeated an offer to the United States to work on the dispute over Ankara’s purchase of Russian missile defenses that angered Washington.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visited Washington last November and met with U.S. President Donald Trump to solve the matter with little progress.
The United States says the S-400s are not compatible with NATO systems and threaten the stealth capabilities of its Lockheed Martin F-35 jets. Turkey rejects this and says the S-400s will not be integrated into the alliance’s defenses.
Before the outbreak of the Coronavirus shifted focused away from the issue, Ankara’s bilateral ties with Moscow took a heavy blow over Russia’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s military offensive on northwestern Syrian town of Idlib.
