Decorations merrily galore these days… After the Chatham House Prize went to President Abdullah Gul, another rare honor is landing in Ankara: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the United States’ Smithsonian Institution will present the Woodrow Wilson Award for public services to Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (along with Ferit Sahenk, a prominent [...]
PARIS – Modifications to the contract for the A400M military transport aircraft are expected to be signed in June, said the head of the French Direction Générale pour l’Armement (DGA) procurement office. “The changes to the contract, which could be signed in June 2010, will fix the details,” said minutes of a hearing given by [...]
SOFIA – Bulgaria wants to terminate a contract with Eurocopter for six Panther-type helicopters in a bid to save money, Defense Minister Anyu Angelov said March 30. “In our next negotiations with Eurocopter, we want to find a mutually acceptable solution, without paying more,” Angelov told the daily Trud. Eurocopter already delivered 11 out of [...]
Turkey has recently revived an ambitious program to build six anti-air warfare frigates to bolster its Navy’s defense capabilities, a project which it had to shelve nine years ago because of a severe economic crisis. The Undersecretariat for Defense Industries, Turkey’s defense procurement agency, in early March collected information from several foreign and domestic companies [...]
The Turkish Navy is preparing to buy its first landing-platform dock able to carry up to eight helicopters as it seeks to gain the capability for overseas amphibious force deployment as part of NATO and peacekeeping efforts. The prime contractor for the $500 million project will be a local company, but because of the high degree of [...]
French Defense Minister Hervé Morin said Feb. 22 the ministerial investment committee has decided to buy a batch of 260 Javelin missiles and 76 launchers from the U.S. government through the Foreign Military Sales program for around $70 million. The announcement ends a period of intense competition between Rafael of Israel and the U.S. authorities [...]
Amid the worst-ever political tensions between Israel and Turkey, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, chief of Israel’s General Staff, arrived here for talks with his Turkish counterpart, Gen. Ilker Basbug, commander of the Turkish armed forces. Ashkenazi came to the Turkish capital to take part in an international NATO conference concerning terrorism and international cooperation. But [...]
Israel Military Industries (IMI) has delivered six drones to Turkey, media reported March 25. Public radio and YNet news said the Turkish military would receive the remaining four Heron drones on order by the end of April. Media said the contract for the 10 unmanned surveillance aircraft totaled $185 million. IMI and Israel’s defense ministry [...]
ANKARA – NATO ally Turkey, a nonpermanent member of the U.N. Security Council, has refused to support additional sanctions on Iran because of Tehran’s controversial nuclear program, angering the West. “There is still an opportunity ahead of us and we believe that this opportunity should be used effectively. Not less, but more diplomacy [is needed],” [...]
Turkey’s Islamist ruling coalition faces the courts and military in a showdown for the nation’s future. Will Turkey move closer to the liberal democracies or away from them? This tension has riven Turkey since its founding as a secular state by Ataturk. But the strains are peaking now. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) [...]
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