Daily Sabah
December 12, 2022
Erdoğan says ballistic missile Tayfun scares Greece, warns against militarization
Greece is scared of Turkish ballistic missile Tayfun, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday, warning Athens….
“Now we have started to build our missiles. Of course, this production frightens the Greeks. When you say ‘Tayfun’ (Typhoon), the Greek is scared. They (Greece) say it will hit Athens. Of course, it will hit it,” Erdoğan said at an event in northern Samsun province.
“If you try to buy something (to arm yourselves) from here and there, from America to the islands, a country like Türkiye will not be a bystander. It has to do something,” Erdoğan continued.
In October, Türkiye test-fired the domestically produced short-range ballistic missile Tayfun over the Black Sea. The missile can hit a target at a distance of 561 kilometers (349 miles) in 456 seconds.
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Relations deteriorated after Erdoğan said Mitsotakis “no longer exists” for him, when the Greek premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis lobbied to block sales of F-16 fighter jets to Türkiye during a visit to the United States….In May, Erdoğan cut ties with Mitsotakis and declared all other channels of communication between the countries closed.
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Anadolu Agency
December 12, 2022
Türkiye’s latest drone Kizilelma will take the country’s defense industry to new heights, according to its manufacturer Baykar.
Speaking to Türkiye Innovation Week, organized by the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM) in Istanbul, Haluk Bayraktar said the aircraft, with low detectability and hypersonic speed, is a very critical and strategic project.
The dependence on foreign countries in the defense sector is a problem, he said, adding that technologies such as Kizilelma will ensure self-sufficiency.
He further said the project is a private project being developed with support from Baykar’s export revenue.
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