If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. It’s an old adage, that still works today, especially if you are the Turkish government and a NATO ally, and you’ve angered Washington with a military purchase from Russia.
The fact that Turkey is a sovereign nation, and should be able to buy what it wants to defend itself, has no bearing whatsoever — it’s the US forces that give the nod, or not.
A fact that Turkish government officials are all too familiar with, which is why they have hired a law firm in Washington on its behalf, Al-Monitor reported.
The idea is to seek rapport with the Biden administration amid a continuing dispute over Ankara’s purchase of Russia’s S-400 air defense system.
A defense company owned by Turkey’s main defense industrial agency signed a contract with the Arnold & Porter law firm to provide “strategic advice and outreach†in a bid to persuade US policymakers to readmit Turkey to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, Reuters first reported.
