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We have recently provided Pakistan with a lot of strategic know-how and infrastructure consultations, we are looking for ways to work together, and it is undeniable that there has been a serious rapprochement in the military bureaucracies of both sides, not just in words but in concrete terms.
Consultation services for restructuring of the Karachi shipyard, the transfer of some know-how related the Milgem project to help them design, classify and build their own frigates, systems engineering and related works support to the Khalid (Agosta 90B) class submarines to provide them with a number of strategic capabilities, and, I think equally important, the agreement on the joint development of air-to-air missiles through the Gökdoğan infrastructure, were all important agenda items that were openly reported and not even discussed in the Turkish social media as much as they were reported in the Indian media. There are even some detailed issues, but I am not sure which is open source information and which is not, so I don't want to speculate.
In short, the opening of the KAAN program to Pakistan has been expected for years, there is nothing surprising in this. In the meantime, -isolating the issue of political instability in Pakistan-, I have the opinion that in general terms, it is extremely compatible with Turkish interests for Pakistan to have a strong military deterrent.
Consultation services for restructuring of the Karachi shipyard, the transfer of some know-how related the Milgem project to help them design, classify and build their own frigates, systems engineering and related works support to the Khalid (Agosta 90B) class submarines to provide them with a number of strategic capabilities, and, I think equally important, the agreement on the joint development of air-to-air missiles through the Gökdoğan infrastructure, were all important agenda items that were openly reported and not even discussed in the Turkish social media as much as they were reported in the Indian media. There are even some detailed issues, but I am not sure which is open source information and which is not, so I don't want to speculate.
In short, the opening of the KAAN program to Pakistan has been expected for years, there is nothing surprising in this. In the meantime, -isolating the issue of political instability in Pakistan-, I have the opinion that in general terms, it is extremely compatible with Turkish interests for Pakistan to have a strong military deterrent.
