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Trump pushes F-35 sale to Turkey, but his own State Department says Erdoğan hasn't met legal requirements

President Donald Trump has opened the door to selling Turkey the U.S.' prized F-35 fighter jet, praising Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and promising to remove sanctions imposed over Ankara’s purchase of a Russian missile defense system.But a State Department letter to Congress makes clear that Turkey has not taken the steps legally required to receive the advanced fighter."Turkey has not yet met these conditions," the department said in the July 22 letter, first obtained by the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.TRUMP COULD HAND PRIZED STEALTH JETS TO NATO ALLY ONCE SEEN AS ALLIANCE HEADACHE...