Fidan indirectly confirms S-400 talks

The appeal by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan for the lifting of US CAATSA sanctions in a recent TV interview highlighted the difficulties of US-Turkish relations and the implicit but clear admission that Washington and Ankara are looking for a formula that would under certain conditions allow even the return of Turkey to the F-35 program.

Without denying the scenarios about the storage of Russian S-400 missiles in exchange for Turkey's return to the fifth-generation F-35 fighter program, which Kathimerini revealed a few days ago, Fidan said that "these are claims" on the one hand, and that "we are defining our position on the framework issues, especially on the critical content of the negotiations, but apart from that, we have a methodical attitude of not revealing too much about our positions on what we will do, when and how we will do it until we reach our final goal...