Armenia officially acknowledged on Monday that its armed forces are equipped with Russian-made surface-to-air missiles widely regarded as one of the world’s most potent anti-aircraft weapons. The Defense Ministry in Yerevan said Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian visited one of the Armenian army’s anti-aircraft units and “familiarized himself with the work of the state-of-the-art S-300 air-defense [...]
Turkey is poised to take strong legal and political measures in pressing for an international response to an assault Tuesday night on a Turkish basketball squad by home-team fans during a match in Greek Cyprus. “Our first priority was to ensure the players’ safe return after the attack. That was done and the next step [...]
Turkey is holding exclusive talks with Japan to build a nuclear power plant after failing to reach an agreement with South Korea. Turkey aims to conclude a deal with Japan in three months, Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said Thursday in an interview in Tokyo before holding talks with Toshiba, Tokyo Electric Power and Itochu Corp. [...]
South Korean Army held a large-scale live-fire drill on Thursday close to the heavily armed border with the North as the presidential office said President Lee Myung-bak visited a military unit to inspect readiness. Lee’s tour of the forward unit in rugged mountain region in the east just south of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) border [...]
Backed by influential politicians and a major media campaign, the pro-Armenian lobby’s defeat by its conventionally powerful rival in the “genocide resolution” debate shows both the strengths and limits of guerrilla tactics in political battles. In their campaign to get the U.S. House of Representatives to recognize World War I-era killings of Armenians in the [...]
President Abdullah Gül, who took a tour of the Turkish Aerospace Industries’ (TAI) facilities yesterday, praised TAI’s work and said its facilities, like TAI, help Turkey gain prestige and progress further. During his visit to the facilities, Gül was briefed on TAI’s research by Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül, Undersecretariat for the Defense Industry (SSM) [...]
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chief of General Staff Gen. Işık Koşaner have responded harshly to the price proposed for 109 helicopters from an American and an Italian company. According to military sources, US company Sikorsky and the Italian AgustaWestland requested $5 billion for the sale, maintenance and transportation of 109 choppers to [...]
Pakistan on Tuesday successfully test fired a medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads, the military said. The military said in a statement that Ghauri Hatf 5, with a range of 800 miles, could carry conventional and other warheads. The launch was conducted by the Army Strategic Force command’s strategic missile group [...]
Turkish Aeronautical Association (THK) will provide Syrian young people with a flight training program. Osman Yildirim, director-general of the association, said, “THK will play a more active role in efforts to extinguish forest fires in the neighboring Syria in the coming years. Also, we are planning to provide Syrian young people with a flight training [...]
Turkish Air Forces stated that China and Greece were not invited to Anatolian Eagle military exercise which would take place between June 13 and 24, 2011. Turkish Air Forces stated in its web-site on Wednesday that several press organs wrote that China and Greece were invited to the Anatolian Eagle which was a military exercise [...]
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