The man behind the development of the Turkish drone industry, Ozdemir Bayraktar planted the seeds of the country’s success 20 years ago.
Turkey’s latest drone takes its defence industry into the big leagues, among “the top three combat drone manufacturers in the world,” President Erdogan says.
After recent agreements with Poland and Ukraine, Albania will become the next buyer of Turkish combat drones, which are high in demand.
Poland becomes the first NATO country to purchase Turkish UAVs, which have proved their mettle in various high-intensity conflicts.
Poland will purchase 24 Bayraktar TB2 drones from Turkey's Baykar Defence, in what will be "the first time in its history" for Turkey to make such a sale to a NATO and EU member state, said Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The deal worth millions is set to bring the two countries closer and marks another step in the growing international market for Turkish drones.
Turkey’s major drone manufacturer says Canada’s cancellation of drone technology export permits to Turkey will not harm Baykar.
Renowned international relations scholar Francis Fukuyama says Ankara has been able to shape outcomes in the region more than Russia, China and the US thanks to the development of its own domestic drones.
Andair, a British aerospace company, says it suspended sending drone parts to Baykar, a Turkish arm manufacturer, on the request of the Armenian embassy.
Turkey's homegrown Bayraktar drones have changed battleground equations in several conflicts, so Western countries like the UK are on the path of emulating Ankara's drone program.
Indigenously built, Bayraktar TB-2 is a medium altitude long endurance tactical unmanned aerial vehicle capable of conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as armed attack missions.
Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles took off from an airbase in Dalaman, Turkey and touched down at the Gecitkale airport in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
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