Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is poised to meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit in a bid to turn the page on strained relations between the two countries, people familiar with the matter said.

ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey has not given up on acquiring F-35 fighter jets from the United States and has conveyed its desire to rejoin the programme from which it was removed over its purchase of Russian defence systems.

The Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile systems alone are not sufficient to meet Turkey’s comprehensive air defense needs, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his pool reporters upon returning from The Hague,