Dhaka, Sept. 28 -- Turkish Airlines announced on Friday a deal to buy up to 225 Boeing jets, one day after president Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his first White House visit since 2019.

The more than two-hour meeting between Erdogan and president Donald Trump raised Ankara's hopes of seeing Washington lift sanctions that since 2020 have blocked it from buying American F-35 fighter jets.

The measures were imposed in retaliation for Turkey's purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defence system.

Speaking to Turkish reporters on his flight home from Washington, Erdogan described a 'sincere, constructive and productive atmosphere' during the talks.

But he conceded that 'resolving all problems in a single meeting is, of course, impossible'.

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