When Turkey goes to the polls next month, they will be doing more than deciding the domestic future of the country — they likely will also be determining Sweden’s future with NATO.
“Turkey’s homegrown defense industry is certainly a key part of the overall package President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is offering to voters — the idea of a rising Turkey that will play hardball in an age of great power competition,” Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, a visiting fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, told Breaking Defense.
A Ukrainian official told police in Ankara that he was conned by a Turkish defense company employee and a businessman who promised to deliver military helmets and body armor to Ukraine.
Iraq wants 12 T-129 ATAK helicopters, six Koral electronic warfare systems, and an unspecified number of TB2 Bayraktar armed drones as part of the deal, which would tie the two countries closer.
