Turkey, which is beginning to realize that it will not be able to get exactly what it wants from the USA, has started looking for alternatives for the supply of fighters, emphasizes SKAI’s Istanbul correspondent Manolis Kostidis. In this matter, the surprise announcement came from the Minister of Defense Yasar Guler. Defense Minister Güler in the Turkish Parliament Committee answered questions from MPs and said that work is being done for the supply of Eurofighter Typhoon.

The Turkish minister emphasized that the specific fighters are related to Britain, Spain and Germany. Great Britain and Spain are positive now trying to convince Germany. Great Britain and Spain tell us that we will solve the problem. If the matter goes ahead we plan to acquire 40 Eurofighters. The Spanish and the British have the desire to sell Eurofighters to Turkey.

“If a comparison has to be made, the Eurofighter is an equal aircraft to the Rafale of France, and it has better performance in maneuvers, in speed. Greece, with the 20 Rafales it acquired, has gained air superiority in the airspace of the Aegean over the Turkish airspace. F-16. Thus, it is considered that Turkey, in order to respond to the Greek Rafale, is making this move and is attempting to buy the European Eurofighters”, it is emphasized in the Turkish media. However, Ankara continues to claim 40 new F-16s and modernize its existing F-16s, but realizes that this is difficult to do.

At the same time, Turkish analysts also remembered… Tayfun missiles. Mesu Haki Chasin, a military analyst, characteristically reported that the Tayfun “they will change the fate of war conflicts. They have a range of 250 and 500 kilometers. When launched it hits targets in the rear of Greece. It reaches even the Adriatic. If you place them on Smyrna and launch them, it goes over and hits the targets and they can’t escape. Do you know what this is? It’s how we get rid of the system that used to tell us, “take this, if you don’t do the other, I won’t give you this.” The Americans used to give us weapons systems for $2 billion. Now we gave them $2.5 billion and they don’t give us fighters”.

According to the Anatoli agency, the statements of the Turkish ambassador in London and the Turkish edition of the Bloomberg agency, Turkey and Britain are on the verge of a very large free trade agreementessentially updating it with the aim of expanding it to such an extent as to help the development of both countries.

“It will cover exports – imports of goods, trade in services, investments, e-commerce,” the Turkish ambassador said. London and Ankara they are developing a defense alliance, but also a trade alliance, as two major states outside the EU» commented Manolis Kostidis.