Stefanos Nikolaidis

Intense reactions to Turkey has caused the placement of the Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidanabout their US engines intended for the New Kaan fighter aircraft.

Specifically, speaking from New York, Fidan said that “We expect engines to start production of Kaan“, A statement that has caused upheavals inside as it contradicts government rhetoric on” domestic and national “program.

The case took a greater dimension when his camera Associated Press fortified by chance private dialogue of two journalists out of White House. The video shows one to comment on his colleague that Fidan “threw the issue of engines deliberately»Due to the intra -party competitions for the succession of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The disclosure of the passage of pro -government has caused disruption to Ankara.

See the video in question and the dialogue:

Journalist: How did the conversations go?

Hussein Gunai, NTV correspondent in Washington: Nice … but we didn’t get anything. We got our a …… A. We didn’t get anything.

Journalist: No they say we got

Hussein Gunai: “Yes we got, but we got P … O. They talked about the caatsa, the F-35s, but they set terms. As if the Palestinians are expelled from their parts, Turkey will take them. He also told him to stop buying gas from Russia and not to pass through China and transfer money to Palestine. We can’t do any of them. “

Journalist: Well, with them Erdogan will die (politically)!

Hussein Gunai: But at this time they are talking about the season after him.

“Erdogan didn’t know that KAAN would fly with US engines”

At the same time, claim Turkish pro -government journalist It causes a great deal of disruption to the neighboring country, as is clear from the discussion below:

Jam Kiuchuk, a journalist: There is a deal for 45 US Kaan aircraft to buy 90 engines. And it has probably been paid an amount. Here the panic and the difficulty (from the Fidan statements) arose because this information was not given to President Erdogan at first. That is, President Erdogan had the impression that the 45 aircraft would fly with a national engine and not with US engines. Did you know that we have signed 90 engines for the 45 aircraft? “

Fuat Ugur, journalist: No, we didn’t know that …

Semil Tayyar, political analyst: No and should have told us!

Nagehan Alzi, a journalist: But that’s what I say, they should inform us correctly. It needs transparency.

Its manager Milliyet; Ozaihe tried to mitigate the impressions, noting that “the use of foreign engines in the first prototypes of war aircraft is an international practice”. However, the disclosure of the off camera dialogue with hints of Erdogan’s succession fueled the scenarios for a rift at the top of Turkish power.

The pro -government Milliyet commented that ‘I wish Fidan had never brought the issue to the timeliness“, While the head of the Department of Defense Industry Halkuk Giurkun He hastened to assure that “Kaan’s future does not depend on a single country engine.” On the contrary, her journalist Cumhuriyet, Baris Tarkoglouargued that the Fidan placement ‘It was true but considered blunder. ” And that the storm that broke out reflects intra -government conflicts.

At the same time the well -known commentator Jam Kiuchuk of TGRT He claimed that Erdogan himself had received ‘Incorrect information“For the program, believing that the first 45 fighters would already bring”domestic engines” According to him, Ankara has closed agreement on 90 US engines F110 used in F-16.

Syrigos: Rumors of Erdogan’s departure have long been flashing

Commenting on the latest developments, Professor of International Law and New Democracy MP, Angel Syrigosstressed by speaking to skai.gr that Hakan Fidan’s reference to Kaan’s engines It was only by chance, it was not, as it is associated with the scenarios in circulation in Turkey for Possible in the Move -Retirement of Recep Tayyip Erdogan by power.

As he noted, according to these scenarios, the Erdogan will move himself procedures to retire, with the Fidan to be considered one of the basic ‘suicides’ of succession. In this context, the Turkish Foreign Minister, referring to the Kaan fighter, left the inability to produce domestic engines.

“Fidan did not accidentally make this position »Mr. Syrigos said, while reminding that in the past few months they had seen the light of publicity publications who questioned the authenticity of degree of. “In Turkey, without a university title one cannot run for the Presidency, and there were articles that argued that his / her own degree is fake“, He added.

‘A dolphin is the Fidana second is the Bilal Erdoganthe son of the Turkish president who is largely considered the natural successor. But I consider that the strongest candidate of everyone is the Curtainsthe President of the Turkish National Assembly. Keep that he is the only one elected by the three, which gives him special power. In essence, it does not depend on Erdogan in this way. “