Turkey's government has decided to allocate some $800 million on creating national air defenses and plans to buy four air defense systems as a first phase of the effort, a local newspaper wrote Tuesday.
According to New Anatolian, Turkey's independent English-language daily, Tayyip Erdogan's government is expected to announce a tender.
The government, which is said to have made the funding decision late last week, tasked the military industry department with preparing a feasibility study and proposing tender terms.
The Turkish media wrote that Ankara was to choose among U.S.-made Patriot systems, Russia's S-300 (Favorit) complexes, and American-Israeli Arrow-2 systems.
Russia's state-owned arms exporter Rosoboronexport, which earlier announced plans to take part in the tender, is preparing bids at the moment.
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