They are buying them.

Turkey is an ally.

Turkey is a sovereign nation, it is free to defend and protect is vital interests as it sees fit, no one wants the U.S to be the policeman, including the U.S itself(at last check)

Turkey has not started any wars lately last I checked.

Turkey is the most secularist nation amongst ME countries, it is a wonderful place to visit to boot(been many times)

The U.S is the biggest arms dealer in the world.



Why is this hard to understand? The military industrial complex is your biggest cash cow.

If you worried about what regime and organizationss you sold weapons to, the obvious one would probably be Saudi Arabia and Pakistan first and formost.

The F-35 has had lots of reported problems

[link to www.defensenews.com]

THey are probably trying to offload them to some suckers. Hence Turkey buying them. The F-35 JSF program is HEAVILY in debt.