Turkey's President Erdogan says Ankara will boost defence industry investments until the country is completely free from reliance on foreign defence goods
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to eliminate the nation’s dependence on foreign-made defence products.
“We will continue to increase our investments in the defence industry until we completely free our country from foreign dependence,” Erdogan said at the opening ceremony of a maintenance hangar for A400M strategic airlifters in the capital Ankara. Erdogan criticised some countries for rejecting Turkey's requests to purchase weapons, while supplying them to terrorists in Syria through thousands of truck and plane flights under the guise of the fight against the terror group Daesh.
Turkey has long blasted the US for rejecting Turkish efforts to buy Patriot missiles, while giving weapons and training to the terrorist YPG/PKK in Syria, near Turkey’s borders. The US claims the weapons are meant to fight Daesh, while Turkey argues that using one terror group to fight another makes no sense.“We are determined to overcome all the injustices and unlawfulnesses we encounter in the defence of our homeland by taking matters into our own hands,” Erdogan continued.
“Our so-called friends did everything they could to weaken us in the cross-border operations we carried out to ensure the safety of our citizens,” he added, referring to Turkey’s operations into border areas of Syria and northern Iraq to pursue PKK and YPG/PKK terrorists taking shelter there.
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