Import Corporation

Last week, the news fell like a bombshell. Defense Minister ?smet Y?lmaz declared at the Turkish parliament that Turkey?s new defense missile system, to be purchased most probably from China, would not be integrated with NATO?s system. This kicked off a hot discussion on whether Turkey is changing its strategic affiliation and might ultimately withdraw from NATO.

Turkey's new defense missile system, for which Ankara is in talks on a $3.4 billion deal with a Chinese company, will not be integrated with one used by NATO, Defense Minister ?smet Y?lmaz has said.

Turkey will go ahead with plans to order a $3.4 billion missile defense system from China, Defense Minister ?smet Y?lmaz has said, while admitting that Ankara will not be able to integrate the system with that used by NATO.

Turkey is planning to buy four more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from the U.S., in addition to the two it had already ordered, the country's defense industry agency said.

Turkey could scrap a controversial plan to buy missile defense systems from China that alarmed the United States and its Western allies, Turkish and European sources said on Nov. 12.
      

Turkey has resumed talks with France on purchasing a new missile system after negotiations on a controversial deal with a US-blacklisted Chinese company hit a rock, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was reported Sept. 7 as saying.