After calling Israel’s probe into a deadly raid on Gaza-bound aid ships “credible, impartial and transparent,” U.S. State Department Spokesman Philip Crowley has described Turkey’s Gaza flotilla report as “independent and credible,” too. “Both [Turkey and Israel] are doing what they can to help contribute to a fuller understanding of what happened during this incident [...]
A frigate of the Turkish navy reached Evia, early on Thursday morning. “Yildirim” came from Dardanelia anf moved westward, north of Limnos on international waters. Then, following southern route it entered Greek territorial waters from 02:13 to 03:01am, between Skyros and Evia and moved to the southeast on international waters towards a region in south [...]
Turkey’s two-year stay on the United Nations Security Council did much to reshape the country’s image. Others now realize that it is an outspoken operator, with its own agenda – a significant player. Ankara’s diplomats in New York were not the ciphers who often occupy temporary-member places in the ring of council seats. They can [...]
The Information and Communication Technologies Authority, or BTK, and the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, or TÜBİTAK, has organized a field exercise on national cyber security with participation of 41 companies. The exercise crew will make systematic cyber attacks on the participating firms’ data systems and file a report on their system vulnerabilities. [...]
The Undersecretariat for Defense Industries and the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce are preparing to launch a technopark project. The investment, with an initial construction budget of $100 million, is set to bring together hundreds of defense companies in the city. The site will target strategic fields like aviation, maritime, electronics, information technology, nanotechnology, energy and [...]
Turkey is seriously reconsidering the myriad agreements it has signed with the US, as well as its participation in an international consortium for the procurement of new generation fighter jets, due to rising costs and persisting problems originating from the American side. Turkey is now seeking new ways to sidestep difficulties in the procurement of [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will join leaders of Qatar and Syria on Monday for a summit meeting aimed at finding a solution to the political crisis in Lebanon, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Sunday. The 14-month-old unity government of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri collapsed on Wednesday after ministers from the Hezbollah movement [...]
Iran showed its Natanz uranium enrichment plant to a group of U.N. nuclear watchdog ambassadors as a sign of transparency over its nuclear activities, state television reported on Sunday. Â Envoys from mainly non-aligned developing nations were on the tour. Counterparts from the West, Russia and China were either not invited or rejected Iran’s gesture. Natanz [...]
A helicopter manufacturer from the United States, competing with an Italian rival for a Turkish tender to jointly produce 109 mostly military-utility helicopters worth around $4 billion, sweetened its bid over the weekend. A senior official from Sikorsky Aircraft told the HĂĽrriyet Daily News & Economic Review that his company would guarantee that Turkey would [...]
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has unveiled a new unmanned helicopter dubbed “Mosquito”, TRDEFENCE sources reported on Friday. Mosquito was developed in a very short time frame in order to meet the existing tactical weaponized hovering vehicle requirements of the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) in hard-to-reach mountainous areas. First test flight of the helicopter saw it climb to [...]
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