In February 2023, Secretary of State Antony BLINKEN publicly confirmed that the Biden Administration supports a possible sale of F-16 fighter aircraft to Türkiye, and has engaged Congress on the issue. According to January 2023 media reports citing unnamed U.S. officials, the Administration informally notified Congress of its intent to sell 40 new-build F-16s in the Block 70/72 Viper configuration and Viper upgrade packages for 79 existing fighters, along with 900 air-to-air missiles and 800 bombs, at an estimated total value of US$20 billion. 

According to the Turkish MoND within the scope of F-16 Procurement a total of three meetings were held during December 2021, February 2022 and March 2022 and upon the formal invitation from the U.S., on August 15, 2023, a Turkish MoND Technical Delegation went to the U.S. to hold talks (4th round of meeting). Meanwhile, according to the MoND 2022 Corporate Financial Status and Expectations Report, which published in July 2022, the Letter of Request (LoR) for the procurement of 40 x new-build F-16 Block 70s and the Viper Modernization of 79 x F-16 Block-40/50+ aircraft and simulators in TurAF service was submitted to Office of Defense Cooperation Türkiye (ODC-T) on May 25, 2022. On November 1, 2023, the Turkish MoND disclosed that within the scope of F-16 Procurement technical talks between the U.S and Türkiye have been completed and they were awaiting the completion of the ongoing sales procedures in the U.S.