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Ankara's balancing act: Erdogan courts Washington on F-35s and KAAN while warning against a Strait of Hormuz war
Erdogan says Trump is 'positive' on restarting F-35 deliveries and on engines for Turkey's KAAN fighter, while publicly warning that the Strait of Hormuz must not become a 'theater of war.' The two tracks point in opposite directions.

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