Without APS any currently availible Tank is easy prey for ATGM especially if they have top attack capabilities, that is a fact.
If Pulat is not integrated on that modernization programm then it's a pretty useless modernization.
Leopard2A4 with Roketsan T1 armor and Pulat for sure is up-to-date, more than any available modern Tank without APS.
If 360° protection is needed AKKOR can be added, this Altay turret proposal would become to expensive we are modernizing decade old Tanks.
Living standard of people is bad because the Lira is weak therefore resulting inflation and Politics. But thanks for your honest empathy.
R&D is never a waste of money, those drilling ships were pretty cheap but feeding millions of unwanted people is, sending billions of foreign aid every year...
Again what is the connection between Turkish Defence Industry and Freedom of Speech and Press in Turkey?
Do you have to give up one of these in order to have the other? -> LOL.
If Sincar/Duhok region is not under Turkish control it will turn into a endless cleaning operation.
You don‘t need to clean Northern Syria you have to fuel ethnic clashes, Arabs will turn in their own lands to peasants of US backed Syrian PKK/Kurds. Use that.