Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sept. 27 defended Moscow’s refusal to supply Iran with S-300 air defense missiles, saying such a sale would violate U.N. Security Council sanctions. Last week, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree banning supplies of the missiles and other arms to Tehran, which is engaged in a standoff with [...]
NATO presented Sept. 27 an early version of its new strategic concept aimed at turning the Western military shield of the Cold War era into a new international security presence for the 21st century. A first version of the text has been transmitted to ambassadors of NATO’s 28 member states ahead of their initial debate [...]
Iraq inaugurated the first in a fleet of U.S.-built patrol boats on Sept. 26, part of efforts to boost its naval capacity and secure key oil platforms ahead of an American pullout next year. The rapid build-up of the Iraqi Navy is seen as crucial to protecting the terminals through which the vast majority of [...]
Turkish Airlines, Europe’s fourth largest carrier does not have enough aeroplanes to meet its expansion plans, the airline’s Chairman Hamdi Topcu told the Star Newspaper last week. To determine the next course of action, the airline is conducting feasibility studies on double-deck aircraft, including the Airbus A380 and soon-to-be-released Boeing 747-8. The Airbus A380 is [...]
Iraqi Defense Minister Abd al-Qadir Muhammad Jassim al-Mufriji al-Ubaydi said Tuesday that they appreciated Turkey’s efforts for extension of the government’s mandate to wage cross-border military operations, adding, “all our desire is that it will be limited.” Al-Mufriji and an accompanying delegation met with Turkish National Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul in Ankara as part of [...]
French industry has locked down the missile specifications of an air defense model of the FREMM multimission frigate in talks with Greece and is embarking on negotiations on industrial cooperation, industry executives said.
Turkeys Havelsan is displaying its artillery forward observer simulator (AFOS) system here at AAD (Hall 3, Stand 354). This Windowsbased system helps to train forward observers and fire detection centre personnel so that they can employ artillery firepower accurately and effectively. The system presents 3D geo-specific/geotypical terrain views, high-resolution satellite images and elevation data and [...]
Turkish company Roketsan (Hall 3, Stand 3S2), well known for its extensive family of surface-tosurface rockets, is expanding into air-launched and ground-based anti-tank missiles to meet the requirements of the Turkish Land Forces Command. Being shown at AAD 2010 are the latest 2.75in laser-guided missile (Cirit) and the long range anti-tank system (UMTAS), both of [...]
Rising demand for Bulgarian exports to non-European Union countries including Turkey helped the Balkan nation compensate for sluggish trade with Greece. Bulgaria’s total exports rose 46 percent in July. Of that, exports to the EU rose 33 percent, while exports outside the 27-nation bloc rose 77.3 percent. Turkey was the destination of 8.7 percent of [...]
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız said Wednesday that talks with South Korea were nearing an end as plans for a nuclear power plant in Turkey proceed. “South Korea has different conditions, we are at the end of evaluating them,†said Yıldız, who met with Jean Lemierre and other representatives of the Movement of [...]
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