Debating defence budgets: Why military purchasing power parity matters
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/debating-defence-budgets-why-military-purchasing-power-parity-matters
This puts the whole debate about Turkey's defense expenditures, budgets and funds in perspective.
As a matter of fact...
Personally, I'd prefer the merger of Turkish and South Korean programs.
The second best option would be to include a financially potent country like Saudi Arabia.
The third best option is the inclusion of a partner like Pakistan which would order a very high number of TFX planes.
Azerbaijan is NOT rich - by no means!!! This is a myth, a false perception rooted in the fact that Azerbaijan exports natural resources.
The average Azeri is much, much poorer than the average Turkish citizen. Know your facts before you make a claim.
To stay on topic, Azerbaijan has no tech...
This is a military forum. Your minimum requirement for a potential partner is 'to be a developed country'. So, Pakistan with nuclear weapons, high range missiles, existing experience in the aviation industry due to cooperation with China and arguably the best trained military in South Asia is...
Don't defend Inönü. He started the destruction of Atatürk's legacy. When people dislike Atatürk in private exchanges, 9 out of 10 times they actually mean İnönü's policies.
Personally, I can't wrap my head around the fact that CHP in 2022 is still described as 'Atatürk's party'. Just...
Western media inaccurately reported that the Iranian regime abolished its morality patrol on December 4.[1] The regime has not made such a concession. Western outlets misinterpreted remarks from Prosecutor General Mohammad Javad Montazeri on December 3. Montazeri noted in response to a...
I have two questions on my mind:
Does it make sense to team up with Korea to build a reliable turbine engine?
Even more, couldn't Türkiye and South Korea join hands in developing a 6th gen fighter jet?
I don't quite understand the issue yet. The Brits are willing to allow Turkey third party sales without any kind of objections from London but we're insisting on owning the Intellectual Property Rights of the engine, too?
Orthodox fascists on the Balkan peninsula consider Muslims as Turks. Ofc, it's not correct to use both terms as synonym but that's an ideological argument of Serbian and Greek racists.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turk_(term_for_Muslims)
His criticism is unfounded and obviously politically motivated.
He picked out the one good thing about our economy and that is our diversified industrial production capacity. Even our worst critics agree that Turkey is in fact a producing nation. No doubt, we have major issues and shortcomings...
