Turkey Forges Ahead on Defense Ambitions

Turkey’s NATO membership means that it has access to the same technologies as its allied partners.

While the nation is involved in a number of large-scale projects—the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) being a…

This is the result of a push from the government for Turkey to bolster its defense manufacturing capability.

Progress is being made in many areas, but there is a still a reliance on guidance from partner nations that have a…

This can both work in Turkey’s favor as well as against it, however, as it looks toward conflicting partners for this guidance.

While involvement in the…