A day after vowing closer defence cooperation with Russia, Turkey said Wednesday it would seek "alternatives" to the F-35 fighter jet programme the United States has excluded it from.
Washington said last month Turkey will be scrapped from the F-35 programme after Ankara bought Russian S-400 air defence systems.
"We need war jets. If we cannot buy the F-35s, we will look for new alternatives," official news agency Anadolu quoted Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying in the Estonian capital of Tallinn.
Turkey has lambasted as "unfair" the US move to exclude it from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme. The White House said the jet could not "coexist with a Russian intelligence collection platform that will be used to learn about its advanced capabilities."
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