It doesn't really matter now whether the F-35s have a kill switch or not.
What's crystal clear at the moment is that the U.S. is not a trustworthy or a reliable ally.
We Turks have experienced this when the other partner countries in the JSF program happily followed the U.S. dictate of kicking...
Italians do have a history of producing imported weapons locally.
Just look up Meridionali Chinook, Aeritalia F-104S/ASA, Agusta/Bell 204/205/206 etc.
I still think that Leonardo is going to facilitate many things not only for Baykar but for the entire Turkish defence industry and maybe tenders...
Sharaa was taken out of the US terrorist list so rapidly that it must've come with some concessions i.e. regarding Israel and Türkiye.
Not surprised at all.