F-35: why Washington’s Turkey rethink matters for Cyprus

Donald Trump’s suggestion that he is prepared to reconsider Turkey’s return to the F-35 fighter jet programme has reignited debate across the Eastern Mediterranean, raising questions over Washington’s changing view of Ankara despite the sanctions that led to Turkey’s removal from the programme in 2019.

For Cyprus, however, the question is less whether Turkey eventually receives the aircraft than what the renewed discussion says about Ankara’s place within the Western security architecture....