Sikorsky bags 109 helicopter deal by Turkey
Turkey has signed a contract with U.S. firm Sikorsky on Thursday worth $3.5 billion to supply 109 military helicopters, with the added possibility that, over the course of the next 10 years, nearly 500...
View ArticleSerbia-Turkey sign military cooperation plan for 2011
The bilateral military cooperation plan for 2011 has been signed by representatives of the Serbian and Turkish Defense Ministries in Ankara on last Tuesday. This was confirmed by the website of the...
View ArticleTurkey says no military shipment to Syria
Turkish authorities today clarified that arms dealers from their country are not involved in arming the government troops loyal to Bashir al Assad in Syria. The Today’s Zaman, one of the two English...
View ArticleTurkish prosecutors complete Mavi Marmara investigation
Today’s Zaman, the leading Turkish English language newspaper has reported that the public prosecutors have completed their investigation in to the incidents which lead to the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid....
View ArticleUS Congressmen not in favour of Turkish drone deal
The Turkish state news agency Anadolu Agency (AA) reported that the proposed sale of General Atomics MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to Turkey is highly unlikely to find enough support from...
View ArticleIsrael’s growing naval presence in the Eastern Mediterranean irritates Turkey
The tensions between Israel and Turkey over the former’s decision to hold oil and natural gas drilling in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea show no signs of cooling down. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF)...
View ArticleIraq protests Turkish oil deal with Iraqi Kurdistan
The Iraqi central government issued a warning yesterday that Turkey’s recent oil deal with the Iraqi Kurdistan Autonomous Region can harm the diplomatic and trade relations between the two nations....
View ArticleTurkey closes its border with Syria, as fighting rages in Aleppo
An official with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today confirmed that Turkey has closed its volatile border with Syria. Last week, the Free Syrian Army rebels...
View ArticleTurkey undertakes military exercises close to its Syrian border
A state run news agency has reported that the Turkish army has started a major tank exercise along the Turkish-Syrian border yesterday. Earlier Turkey had sent additional deployments to the area,...
View ArticleMore than 9,000 Syrian refugees stranded at Turkish border
Some 9,000 refugees from Syria were stranded at the Syrian side of the border, after Turkey denied them entry in to its territory. A Turkish official was quoted on yesterday as saying that the refugees...
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