Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has again extended the deadline of its ballistic missile defense tender. The Defense Industry Undersecretariat, known as SSM, extended the deadline for the procurement of a BMD system by another two months. Hours before the expiration, SSM, which selected a Chinese platform, informed bidders that the deadline was moved […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey, which is under intense pressure from NATO over its procurement of a China’s ballistic missile defense battery, might copy it and claim it as an indigenous system. Western diplomats said NATO has assessed that Ankara could indefinitely delay signing an agreement for China’s HQ-9 BMD system. Instead, the government […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has been blocked by rising civil unrest from reaching decisions on major defense procurement and development programs. Turkish sources said the government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has been unable to maintain deadlines for military and security force programs. The sources cited the failure of the Defense Industry Executive […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey and the United States have been preparing a defense summit. Officials said U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel would arrive in Turkey and meet the leadership in late January. They said Hagel, deemed a supporter of Ankara, would seek to resolve a range of bilateral and multilateral issues, particularly Turkey’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — China, selected for the first major defense project in a NATO member, has long cooperated with Turkey in the development of ballistic missiles. The Center for Strategic and International Studies said Turkey, with the second largest military in NATO, has been working with Beijing for nearly 20 years on missile […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The government of Turkey is facing increasing pressure from its key NATO allies, especially the United States, and may abandon its earlier decision to buy a Chinese-made missile defense system that would have cost $3.44 billion. Such a move was strongly indicated last week when Turkey’s Defense Industry […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Congress has urged Turkey to reverse its decision to acquire a ballistic missile defense system from China. “It is in no one’s interest that Turkey choose a system which could never be integrated with the rest of NATO’s defense capabilities,” Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services Strategic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com The U.S. government has sent NATO ally Turkey a message expressing “serious concerns” over Ankara’s decision to choose a Chinese state-run weapons firm to co-produce an air and missile defense system known as the Red Flag-9 or HQ-9. China is still under sanctions by the U.S. and most European Union nations. […]