New Delhi, July 18 -- ANKARA - For nearly seven years, Turkey has occupied an uncomfortable position within NATO, formally a member of an alliance that collectively operates the most advanced western combat aircraft in existence while possessing none of it. That anomaly, the product of a 2019 decision to expel Ankara from the F-35 program after it acquired a Russian air defense battery, may be approaching its end.

A Turkish parliamentary delegation led by Hulusi Akar, the former defense minister and current chairman of the Grand National Assembly's defense committee, met Thursday with senior members of the US House Armed Services, Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs committees, as well as NATO Parliamentary Assembly leadership, in Washingt...