A proposal by US lawmakers to temporarily stop weapons sales — including the sale of F-35 jets — to Turkey was wrong, illogical, and not fitting of the alliance between the two NATO allies, Cavusoglu said in an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk on Sunday.

“Next week I will go on a visit to the United States. It’s about the fact that the cancellation of the sale of the F-35 is not acceptable, and if it (the cancellation) happens, then they (the Americans) will receive an appropriate response from Turkey,” Cavusoglu said.

According to Press TV lawmakers in the US House of Representatives on Thursday introduced a resolution aimed at blocking the transfer of 116 Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to Turkey and preventing Ankara from receiving intellectual property or technical data required for the maintenance of the warplanes.

Three US senators have introduced a resolution aimed at blocking the transfer of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Turkey.

The measure was adopted over what the US lawmakers described as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “path of reckless governance and disregard for the rule of law,” an apparent reference to a broad crackdown launched in Turkey after an abortive coup in 2016.

But what really angered the US seems to have been Ankara’s purchase of the S-400 missile system from Russia. Washington had earlier warned that Ankara’s purchase of the Russian missile system could have a negative effect on its decision to supply the high-tech, radar-evading F-35 fighter jets to Turkey.

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