Hurriyet: Erdogan says a US refusal to give F-35s to Turkey would be 'robbery'

A refusal by the United States to hand over to Turkey the F-35 fighters jets which it has bought would be "robbery", media reports on Thursday cited President Tayyip Erdogan as saying in a dispute over Ankara's purchase of Russian air defences.
US officials have told Reuters the Trump administration still plans to impose sanctions on Turkey and remove it from the F-35 programme if its NATO ally acquires the Russian S-400 missile defence system.
"If you have a customer and that customer is making payments like clockwork, how can you not give that customer their goods? The name of that would be robbery," Hurriyet newspaper quoted Erdogan as telling reporters during a visit to China.
He said that Turkey had so far paid 1.4 billion dollars for the F-35s and that four jets had been handed over, with Turkish pilots going to the United States for training.
"We have...