A bus carrying Turkish soldiers was hit by a roadside bomb at approximately 6:45 a.m. local time June 22 in a western neighborhood of Istanbul. The blast killed five people, including three soldiers and the 17-year-old daughter of a soldier, who were inside the bus. The bus was likely carrying the soldiers to work from [...]
Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov met with Turkish President Abdullah Gul in Istanbul where they agreed to a meeting of the gas companies of Bulgaria, Turkey and Azerbaijan to discuss to transportation of natural gas from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria, BTA reported June 22. The presidents met during a meeting of state and government leaders of the [...]
Summary For Turkey, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an important role in its ongoing campaign against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party on both sides of the Turkish-Iraqi border — a campaign that is intensifying following the deaths of 11 Turkish soldiers at a border outpost. Yet recent tensions between Turkey and Israel may result in the [...]
ANKARA, Turkey – The Turkish army has begun using Israeli-made unmanned aircraft to monitor Kurdish rebel movements in neighboring Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported June 21, quoting the army chief. “In the past 10 days, we have started using our Heron systems… the surveillance systems we bought from Israel, in the north of Iraq,” [...]
ROKETSAN Missiles Inc. have completed the design verification phase of its 2.75″ Semi Active Laser Guided Missile, CIRIT, after the successful execution of the firing tests performed recently. Primarily developed to be used on the T129 Attack helicopter of the Turkish Armed Forces, CIRIT is an Air-to-Ground missile with 8 km range, filling the gap between the unguided [...]
Turkey is trying to find a way to decrease tanker traffic through the Bosporus because the increasing number of ships poses a danger, said Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, Anatolia News Agency reported June 18. The ministry is planning to meet with a dozen companies, including BP, ExxonMobil and Chevron, before the end of June [...]
Italy’s Edison, Turkish state-run Botaş and Greece’s Depa signed an agreement to carry Caspian gas to Italy via Turkey and the Adriatic, cutting Europe’s dependence on Russia as the main gas supplier. The memorandum of understanding for the so-called Interconnection Turkey-Greece-Italy project, or ITGI, was signed in Ankara on Friday, the three companies said in [...]
Turkey will launch urgent talks to buy nine A129 Mangusta attack helicopters from the Italian-British manufacturer AgustaWestland to fight separatist Kurds operating in an area near the country’s borders with Iraq and Iran, a key Turkish official announced late Tuesday. “In an effort to meet the urgent needs of the Turkish Land Forces Command and [...]
Israel announced June 17 that it was easing a land blockade of the Gaza Strip and issued a new list of materials that it would allow into the Hamas-run Palestinian territory, which included all food items, toys, stationery, kitchen utensils, mattresses and towels. The sea blockade, however, remains firmly intact along with a prohibition on [...]
“The Turkish army has a great need to acquire S-300 and S-400 missile systems,” RIA quoted Rosoboronexport director Anatoly Isaikin as saying, referring to two Russian missiles. Isaikin, speaking in Paris, said Russia had told Turkey it was prepared to participate in a tender for the supply of missile systems, RIA reported. He said Western [...]
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