The Turkish Gambit

... procurement has its roots in the peculiar politics of Recep Erdogan, where the purchase of Russia’s S-400 “Triumf” air defence missile systems came to be a turning point... ... tell, it accidentally resulted from a series of concurrent, though unrelated events. Turkey’s armed forces are rather large and well-armed. The Turkish army is often claimed... ... increasingly striving to provide itself with domestically-produced weapons, including hi-tech arms. There remain major “gaps,” however, particularly in the most sophisticated...