Lockheed Martin on Thursday denied access to Daily Sabah newspaper's Washington correspondent in a ceremony at the company's facilities in Fort Worth, Texas.

Turkish reporter Ragıp Soylu was told before entering the reception that his accreditation was canceled by the decision of the Joint Strike Fighter program of the Department of Defense on security grounds.

After Soylu took the incident to Twitter, a Lockheed Martin aircraft operator named Courtney Ruiz replied to one of Soylu's tweets, using vulgar language and telling him he cannot come to the Lockheed Martin fields.

The official account of Lockheed Martin tweeted an apology to Soylu for the inconvenience following the event and said Ruiz's comments do not reflect the company's view.

A spokesman for the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office also apologized to Soylu on the phone and said the inconvenience was caused by a misunderstanding and disorganization with Lockheed Martin.

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