foreign
there is no hiding turkish officials annoyance over greece's acquisition of french-made rafale
fighter jets although they tried to downgrade and devalue the supply of the only fourth generation
aircraft in the region their constant statements attest to their concern about this development
responding to a reporter's question the president of the turkish defense industry smail demur stated
that with the purchase of the rafale greece is doing nothing but increasing its spending
the newspaper added that the balance of power has always been in turkey's favor
referring to the 2022 target for the country's defense industry dimmer noted
that modernization of the f-16 continues to be a priority in turkey has appropriate technology
regarding the acquisition of the f-35 he described it as illegal unilaterally
withdrawing from the production plan saying that with the u.s negotiations will continue
as for the domestic fighter he announced that will leave the hangar on march 18 2023 he also referred
to the recent cancellation of the purchase of 30 t-129 atak helicopters from pakistan due to the
inability of the turkish aerospace industry to procure lhte ccts 800 to 4a engines from the us