US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

US says ‘the time is now’ for Sweden to join NATO and for Turkiye to get new F-16s

US says ‘the time is now’ for Sweden to join NATO and for Turkiye to get new F-16s

  • Blinken maintained that the administration had not linked the two issues but acknowledged that some US lawmakers had
  • President Joe Biden implicitly linked the two issues in a phone call to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
By AP ·