Officials downplay significance of Trump F-35 signal to Turkey amid fears of softer US sanctions

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Defence, ELAS, Mitsotakis, New Democracy, SYRIZA, Tsipras

Greek officials have pushed back against the suggestion that US President Donald Trump plans to lift sanctions on Turkey allowing it to return to the F-35 procurement programme, in response to hints dropped by the president at the NATO summit in Ankara.

While New Democracy remains dominant in the polls, recent findings suggest that maintaining control of the foreign policy agenda is one of a handful of areas where the current administration is seen as having outperformed its SYRIZA predecessor. 

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