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Beyond the Eurofighters, it is in talks with Washington to buy 40 F-16s.<br \/>Separately, the German government has cleared the way for the delivery of 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Turkey following a positive decision by the federal security council, the Spiegel news magazine reported on Wednesday.<br \/>The German defence ministry declined to comment and the federal council, whose approval is needed for arms exports, does not generally comment on its decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey and Britain signed a preliminary deal allowing Ankara to operate Eurofighter Typhoon jets on Wednesday while Germany approved the delivery of 40 jets, which Turkey has sought to bolster defences in an increasingly volatile region.NATO member Turkey has leaned on its own defence industry projects, including domestic jets, and foreign acquisitions to ramp up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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