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I said assets, and I said partially. I didn't say state-owned, there are differences. You know the states interfere with their foreign sales and all, so they are partially state-controlled too.

As of 2023, the Turkish state gets 25% corporate tax from companies. So even if they are private sector companies they are actually partially state assets.

Nice office, nice map.

We need to hear a word about Gökhan too, we haven't heard from him in ages.

It is fortunate that Türkiye is having a good harvest of wheat this year.

AFAIK this company has a partnership in India to address regional markets.

It will probably be way easier to build a variety of tanks with the knowledge gained from the Altay tank development process. The elements that go into making a tank are pretty much all there so we should go for all those experimental concepts. Not just for ourselves but for the many nations...

MKE website pistols section needs a remake; you can not filter in a smart way, still shows unavailable calibers when filtered. Also, some calibers that Turkish manufacturers are making are not sold on the website. We need better gun options in Türkiye.

I wouldn't sell Akınıcı for less than $40mn without ammo. It turns out to be the medicine for underpowered adversaries.

They must be using prepregs and molds like everyone else to cast their parts.

They will probably make the airframe on location and source everything else ready-made.

You are accusing Erdoğan of setting it up, that's the stupidest thing. I wonder who encouraged MBS to do that, who is the mastermind, who wants to jeopardize KSA Türkiye relations and own KSA in its sole hands, I bet it is outside the KSA, more like the CIA. MBS and instigators wanted to blame...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is on board as a Bayraktar operator with Akıncı mega purchase.

Kaşıkçı incident is a tiny bit in our relationships. Those who set it up must be wishing for all bad outcomes for us but we must navigate away from all those calculated negative outcomes and maximize our benefit from our international relationships. No sentiment lasts forever if you see positive...

Those voters will be here to destroy all your dreams.

How do you know? He has won 17 victories in a row, this is love, not hate.

Out of larger countries Philipinnes and Vietnam stand out with a total of 222 million between the two.

Türkiye has been diversifying for a long time already, Turkic Union and Africa expansion are two examples of this. Turkiye has the number 5 largest foreign representative network in the world now. And the below map shows which countries President Erdoğan has never visited so far (colored in green).

The unanswered question now is "Are we still asking for American upgrade kits or anything F16 at all?".

We are not getting into a deal where we are not getting anything. We can't do a take-it-or-leave-it deal. We are doing an auction-style deal where we maximize our gains.