Turkiye Invites Azerbaijan To Cooperation In Defense Sector
(MENAFN- AzerNews)
Fatima Hasanova read more Turkish Presidency of Defence Industries head Ismail Demir
invited Azerbaijan to participate in the production of a Turkish
combat aircraft, Azernews reports, citing the Turkish media.
“We offer our products to local security forces as well as
friendly countries and our allies. We want to make a call to them.
We want to carry out large projects jointly with friendly countries
and our allies. These countries include Indonesia, Pakistan,
Malaysia, Azerbaijan,' Ismail Demir said at a press conference on
the topic 'Defence industry goals for 2023'.
Demir pointed out that such a collaboration would be
advantageous for all parties.
“Embargoes will continue. Some of those embargoes have been
eased but we are not really interested in this anymore. We reject
becoming dependent on any of the critical and strategic products.
We have learned our lessons,” he stressed.
Recall that an open or covert embargo on arms supplies to
Turkiye was introduced by some NATO member countries that are
allies of Ankara in the alliance.
The US has sanctioned some Turkish defense officials and removed
Turkiye from the Washington-led F-35 fighter jet program after
Ankara bought Russia's S-400 air defense systems.
In addition, Canada canceled export licenses for unmanned
technology to Turkiye in April 2021 after discovering that the
equipment was being used by an Azerbaijani ally in a conflict with
Armenian forces in Karabakh.
Also in 2019, some NATO countries, including France, Britain,
and Germany, suspended the export of weapons to Turkiye after
Ankara launched an operation in northeast Syria against the
YPG.
On December 27, 2021, US President Joe Biden authorized the
National Defense Authorization Act, which places limitations on the
use of American components to build Turkish unmanned aerial
vehicles and includes a section on monitoring Turkey's combat drone
development program.
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