Draft:Ukrainian-Turkish military-technical cooperation

Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar discussed with his Italian counterpart on July 13, bilateral and regional security issues and the latest developments in Afghanistan, Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean, according to the Turkish National Defense Ministry.

The meeting between Akar and Lorenzo Guerini in Istanbul was constructive and positive, it said.

Among the new cooperation projects in the field of the defense industry between Turkey and Azerbaijan are unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UAVs), which have proven their capabilities after being used in several recent regional conflicts such as the Nagorno-Karabakh war.

The Turkish defense minister on June 19 discussed bilateral security and regional issues with his U.S. counterpart over the phone.

According to Turkey's Defense Ministry, Hulusi Akar and Lloyd James Austin had "a positive and constructive" conversation.

The exchange comes days after a NATO summit in Brussels on June 14.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 16 that Turkey and Ukraine have a trade turnover of $ 5.5 billion and "we want to double it." 

Ukraine has "a good relations with Turkey today," Zelensky said in an exclusive interview with French daily newspaper Le Figaro when asked about his recent visit to Turkey and meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Turkey and Britain share views on many important issues, and joint action would promote these shared interests, as confirmed by a visit by Turkey's defense chief to the U.K., said an official statement on April 9. 

Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar met with Britain's Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace in London on April 8.

Wallace welcomed the visiting Turkish minister at the Horse Guards building in Embankment, before Akar inspected troops.

Wallace and Akar, later on, walked to the Defense Ministry offices to hold bilateral talks.

The defense chiefs of Turkey and the U.S. held a phone call on April 1, discussing regional security and bilateral defense cooperation.

Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin exchanged views and underlined the significance of strategic relations during the talk, according to Turkey's National Defense Ministry.

Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina signed a military financial cooperation agreement on March 3 in the Turkish capital Ankara.

The defense ministers of the two countries signed the deal following talks on bilateral and regional defense, security, and cooperation in the defense industry, according to a statement by the Turkish National Defense Ministry, 

Russia and Turkey are preparing a bilateral agreement for cooperation in the space industry, according to the Russian space agency on Feb. 10. 

The agreement is expected to lay "a solid foundation for the further successful cooperation between countries in the field of space," the Russian TASS news agency quoted Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities as saying.