Ankara and Riyadh could pursue a joint investment in Turkey’s development of a 5th-generation warplane called Kaan, a report in Turkey’s Daily Sabah on Thursday said.
The report comes after Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, led a high-level delegation to Saudi Arabia for meetings. The Turkish leader then went to Egypt.
“Kaan is not just a fighter jet. Kaan is a symbol of Turkey’s engineering capabilities and independent defense will,” Erdogan said.
Over the last few decades, his country has been modernizing its armed forces and building a large domestic defense industry. It has invested heavily in drones, for instance.
Significantly, Turkey is a member of NATO.
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