Why did Türkiye join the “European Air Defense”?

– International news – Tasnim News Agency, Turkish government officials and especially the defense and security members of Erdogan’s team seem happy these days. Because there is no ban on sending F-16 zero-kilometer American fighter jets to Turkey. But this is not the only important defense news of Turkey, and this country has officially joined the member countries of the European Air Defense System.

When General Yashar Güler, the Minister of Defense of Erdogan’s cabinet, officially signed the relevant documents, it showed that joining the coalition of members of this air system has clear political meanings. According to political experts, Turkey’s joining the European defense system shows that Ankara has special considerations about playing a role in NATO and the West and cannot always be with Russia. Because basically, the main purpose of creating a new system to defend the airspace of European countries is to line up against possible Russian attacks.

Germany took the lead, Turkey entered too

The European Air Defense System, otherwise known as the “European Sky Shield”, is actually a defense initiative launched in 2022 by German Chancellor Olaf Schultz in order to The strengthening of European air defenses was launched in the midst of the war in Ukraine.

Even a neutral country like Switzerland joined this system and Austria was one of the countries that Zod supported the initiative of the Germans. This project relies on the German short-range air defense system known as Iris-T, mid-range air defense with the help of the American Patriot system, and long-range air defense based on the American-Israeli anti-aircraft system called ARROW-3is.

Very soon countries like England, countries in the The Baltic Sea, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway and Sweden agreed to join this alliance, and Greece and Turkey were also present in this group, and the number of members present in this initiative reached 21 countries.

Boris Pistorius, the Minister of Defense of Germany, has officially announced that Turkey and Greece have participated in the European Sky Shield Project (ESSI) and this The action has made the said group more powerful. The objective of European Sky Shield or ESSI is to create a joint air defense system with anti-ballistic missile capability in Europe.

If you are with America, welcome to us

It was a long time ago that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a message to the Germans in various ways and said, “We would like to be present in the shield of Europe.” But Germany was waiting for America’s green light. European barriers were also removed and General Yashar Güler signed the membership document in Berlin and returned to his country in an easy journey of a few hours. The European shield is considered an important step, and in practice, it will strengthen Ankara’s relations with NATO allies. ESSIDesigned for the use of multilayer defense systems against missiles with different ranges, including the medium range (35 km) IRIS-T SLMGermany, long range (100 km) made by USA Patriot and very long range (100+ km/out of atmosphere) made by USA-Zionist regime including systems like Arrow-3 is.

Turkey’s strange contradiction in the shield of Europe

As he said A new missile defense group has been created in Europe, with the aim that the member states have defense measures against possible threats from Russia. However, Turkey became a member of this group while it purchased the S-400 air defense systems from Russia in 2019, and this tremendous deal caused Turkey to be subject to an arms embargo by the United States and its allies. The purchase of the Russian S-400 also caused Turkey to be removed from the list of producers and buyers of the advanced F-35 fighter.

Previously, it was predicted that Turkey is preparing to buy Russian Sukhoi and will completely stand by this country and move further and further away from NATO. In the last month, new events have happened that have invalidated all those predictions. The most important events can be categorized as follows:

1. Despite many excuses and delays, agree to Sweden’s membership in the NATO military alliance.

2. The Americans also agreed to remove the obstacles to the sale of the F-16 fighter to the Turkish Air Force in response to Erdogan’s compliance with NATO’s request.

3.Victoria Noland, Political Deputy Secretary of State of the United States, on a trip to Turkey and in an interview with CNN Turkey announced that if Turkey passes the S-400 missile, it can return to the list of F-35 fighters.

4.Turkey froze many differences with Greece and joined the European shield.

5. Ankara authorities have pulled the plug on supporting the division of the island of Cyprus and emphasizing the two-state structure of Cyprus.

6. The authorities of European countries participating in the production of the Eurofighter fighter plane, including England, Spain, Germany and Italy, are not reluctant to sell planes to Turkey.

All these events happened while Turkey is a middle policy in the Russia-Ukraine war case. has chosen During the war, it exported more than 10 unmanned armed drones to Ukraine, and on the other hand, it has a close friendship with Putin, and the presence of big Russian tycoons and owners of Russian financial institutions in the market has raised the voice of America.

To Ankara, whether defense and security cooperation between Turkey and Russia will continue in the future or not.

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