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Thursday, April 04, 2013

Israel defense firms court Turkish military

F-4E Phantom |In the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's apology to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the flotilla fatalities, Israeli defense systems manufacturers have been trying to renew their lucrative cooperation with the Turkey military.

These contacts had yielded hundreds of millions of dollars in procurement and upgrade contracts in the years before relations collapsed.

An article in the US journal "Defense News" entitled "Thaw could restore Turk-Israeli arms trade" quotes an official at a major Israeli defense company who expresses the hope for the renewal of defense cooperation.

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