Burak Ege Bekdil
he past couple of weeks have seen a thick layer of fog surrounding Turkey’s controversial, multibillion-dollar program for the procurement of the country’s first long-range air and missile defense shield.
There have been official contradictory statements reminiscent of confusion in the summer of 2013 when a Defense News story claimed that Turkey would select the Chinese bidder in a four-way competition (against U.S., European and Russian rivals). Three months after that story, in September 2013, the Turkish government announced that it selected China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation for the program.
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2017/11/06/turkish-procurement-saga-weighs-russian-s-400-deal-against-pleasing-the-west/
