Air Force
A total of 17 satellite programs are expected to come into orbit from 2012 to 2020. Over the next five years satellite contracts could amount to $2 billion, according to a space industry expert based in…
Jan 26 2012 / Read More »
Growing political hostility between Turkey and Israel has led to the Israeli military cancelling the export permit for UAVs and support services for Turkey. This will cost the firm that sold Turkey Heron UAVs some $90…
Jan 26 2012 / Read More »
Boeing beat out Lockheed Martin to retain its position as the prime contractor for the U.S. long-range missile shield, the Pentagon said on Dec. 30. The U.S. Defense Department said it was awarding Boeing a $3.48…
Jan 2 2012 / Read More »
Army
Relations between the Turkish and Iraqi governments have deteriorated sharply. In a speech to parliament on Monday, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, the head of a Sunni Islam-based religious party, accused his Iraqi counterpart, Nouri al-Maliki,…
Jan 26 2012 / Read More »
The Turkish military is slated to acquire several weapons systems to use against terrorists from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) this year, one senior procurement official said last week. Italy’s AgustaWestland and Turkish Aerospace Industries…
Jan 2 2012 / Read More »
Eurocopter, the German-French-Spanish firm, joins AgustaWestland and Sikorsky in competition for Turkey’s multibillion dollars worth light helicopter bid. A top European helicopter-maker has expressed hopes that it will become Ankara’s key foreign partner in a Turkish…
Dec 1 2011 / Read More »
Navy
Yonca Onuk, a top Turkish shipyard, has delivered the first four of 10 MRTP-16 fast intervention boats to Malaysia’s Coast Guard Command as part of a $100 million contract, a senior Turkish procurement official said yesterday.…
Dec 9 2011 / Read More »
Turkey’s thriving naval defense industry is building specialized support vessels for the Turkish Navy in parallel to its involvement in the construction of conventional warships. The latest examples of such vessels include a submarine rescue mother…
Nov 8 2011 / Read More »
ANKARA – To boost Turkey’s naval intelligence capabilities, military and procurement authorities here have launched a new program for the co-production of unmanned helicopters. Officials with the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) said the procurement office…
Oct 13 2011 / Read More »
Intel
Ankara has claimed it will have sole responsibility for the routes and missions of four US Predator drones deployed to an air base in southeastern Turkey last month to help with efforts to track down and…
Nov 13 2011 / Read More »
The National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) and security forces will receive an additional $6 billion for the defense industry support fund provided by the government, which is a serious step toward Turkish intelligence reaching world standards, a…
Nov 3 2011 / Read More »
Turkey needs to acquire more and smaller unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to prevent large-scale attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) against Turkish military units near the borders with Iraq and Iran, several defense analysts…
Oct 21 2011 / Read More »
Science & Tech
VIP Tourism, a Turkish tourism firm, will start organizing space tours to the stratosphere by 2014, the company announced yesterday. The company will offer space tourists from Turkey and around the world a four-hour-long experience…
Dec 1 2011 / Read More »
Reporting from Cape Canaveral, Fla.— With the roar of an Atlas 5 engine, NASA began its boldest venture yet to another planet, sending its Mars Science Laboratory on an eight-month journey that is expected to provide…
Nov 26 2011 / Read More »
Economy
Economy Minister Zafer ÇaÄŸlayan has announced that the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government’s export target this year is to earn $149 billion in revenue from goods sold to overseas markets. Speaking to the Anatolia…
Jan 2 2012 / Read More »
Turkish government has set minimum wage for workers above 16 years old at net 701.1 Turkish liras for the first half of 2012 and at net 739.8 TL for the second half of next year. Turkish…
Dec 29 2011 / Read More »
Strategy
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has given an interview to Interfax in the wake of negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow in which he speaks about pressing international issues like Syria and Iran,…
Jan 26 2012 / Read More »
Turkey and Britain signed a military cooperation agreement during a three-day visit by President Abdullah Gül to London, a news report has said. The report, which appeared in Jane’s Defence Weekly, said details of the agreement…
Nov 24 2011 / Read More »
Terrorism
Turkish security forces killed eight alleged members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party during clashes in the southeastern province of Bingöl today. Bingöl Gov. Hakan Güvencer said the militants were killed in a clash near Yayladere town…
Dec 15 2011 / Read More »
Suspected al-Qaeda militants who are accused of planning to attack the US Embassy in Ankara had also plotted to target Turkey’s Parliament and a number of churches, according to a report from the Taraf daily on…
Dec 9 2011 / Read More »
