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Turkey on Aug. 8 agreed to purchase 529 tactical wheeled vehicles as part of a deal with BMC Otomotiv, the government agency tasked with procuring defense equipment has stated.

Turkey on Aug. 8 agreed to purchase 529 tactical wheeled vehicles as part of a deal with BMC Otomotiv, the government agency tasked with procuring defense equipment has stated.

The Undersecretariat for Defense Industries said it had agreed to procure the vehicles from unlisted BMC Otomotiv to meet the military's needs in areas where the armed forces are engaged in intense fighting.

Currently engaged in wide-ranging military cooperation that expands from operations against ISIL to training soldiers together, Turkey and Qatar are now looking to further tighten defense-industry ties, as dozens of Turkish defense companies flocked to Doha on Oct. 6 to display their new products.

High-Tech Port by MÜS?AD, a defense industry fair organized by the Independent Industrialists? and Businessmen?s Association (MÜS?AD), will be held in the Qatari capital of Doha to display products and services of Turkey?s leading defense companies. 

Some 49 percent of Turkish defense company BMC has been sold to a Qatari company with a Qatari diplomat on the company's board, as reported by Turkish daily Cumhuriyet.