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In Özal's time, the F-16 was shown as a domestic fighter jet on election posters, if you know what I mean. Since there is above average industrial knowledge here, I think we will understand each other without writing everything clearly. In a nutshell, I think ToT is a good marketing statement against buyers who are not well consulted or for some reason weak buyers. Periodically scan the defense forums and social media of countries that aspire to Turkiye's model, they hang on this 'ToT' a lot, but no one is interested in the content. They can't analyze how we are going through certain paths, because even that is a process... You can appear to give a lot and give nothing, or you can appear to give nothing and give a lot. It depends on the infrastructure capacity of the receiving industry, its manpower and its ability to plan.
As for Egypt, my view is that it is one of the countries that we need on our side. The two countries can achieve great things together. I'm talking about a win-win model, not a one-way model, and a fair cooperation. So when two countries support each other industrially, it indirectly has a multiplier effect on the diplomatic influence of both countries. For example, Egypt becoming less dependent on the western defense bureaucracy can serve our interests as well as the interests of the Egyptian people. In a future where we are the main supplier and solution partner of the Egyptian army, no one can acts against Egyptian and Turkish interests in the eastern Mediterranean. But the first sentences of this story should be a compromise on the basic principles in my previous message and a full resolution of some main issues.
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