Türkiye seeks to increase the value of arms exports

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Turkey is gradually on the list There are countries that are looking for a single-digit position in the list of arms and military equipment exporters.

Official statistics and figures of the Defense Industries Organization under the orders of the Turkish Presidency indicate that This country has been able to export nearly 6 billion dollars of its military industry products in 2023.

Turkey in The 11th place in the world’s arms sales

The official report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on global arms exports shows that Turkey is the 11th largest exporter Weapons in the world have become. The other top 10 exporters from bottom to top are: Italy, South Korea, China, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Israel, Russia, France and the United States.

Based on News DW Turkey, in the last 10 years, Europe’s arms imports have almost doubled, US and French exports have increased, and Russian exports have decreased sharply. . The volume of global arms trade decreased by 3.3 percent, but Turkey was recognized in the report as a country that increased arms sales. Turkey has increased its arms exports by 106% in 4 years, from 2019 to 2023.

The total volume of global arms trade decreased by 3.3% and this situation may be influenced by factors

Despite this reduction, the increase in Turkish arms exports has made significant progress, especially with sales to countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Pakistan.

p dir=”RTL”>The increase in American arms exports is one of the other important findings mentioned in this report. US arms exports have increased significantly and its share in total world arms exports has increased from 34% to 42%.

This shows that the US is strengthening Its role is as a global supplier of weapons and supplies more weapons to more countries than in previous periods. In the sale of weapons and ammunition, they will have a 72% golden bite. That too in the situation where global sanctions have caused Russia to lose the possibility of exporting weapons.

Turkey’s high income in Arms export

Haluk Gorgun, the head of Turkish defense industry, announced that the Baykar UAV company owned by Seljuk Beirqdar, son-in-law of Erdoğan, was the 2023 export champion in the defense industry. . Turkey’s defense industry exports, which amounted to 4.364 billion dollars in 2022, will reach 5.5 billion dollars in 2023 with a 27% increase.

Turkey’s defense industries in the last 10 years It has exported 230 types of products to 185 countries in different geographies. The ranking of Turkish defense industry companies that recorded the most exports in 2023 is as follows:

1- Baykar: 1 billion and 766 million dollars

2- Turkish aerospace industry: 864 million dollars

3- Machinery and chemical industry: 439 million dollars

4- TAI Motor (TEI) 337 million dollars

5- BMC 255 million dollars

6- Roketsan: 161 million dollars

7- Rome foreign trade: 160 million dollars

8- Turkish Airlines 111 million dollars

9. Aslesan: 108 million dollars

10- Defense of Vatan Samson: 104 million dollars

The interesting point is that Baykar UAV group, the largest tax The donor was in Turkey in 2023.

Turkey in the Persian Gulf

In 2023, Kuwait joined the countries that have signed an agreement to purchase drones with Turkey. Although Qatar was the first Arab country in the Persian Gulf to buy this weapon produced by Turkey, now Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have also become Turkey’s new customers.

which was signed between Baykar Turkey and the Ministry of Defense of Saudi Arabia, a joint UAV production factory will be built in Jeddah and Turkish experts and engineers will be stationed there. The signing of this contract in the middle of 2023 drew the attention of the American media.

Associated Press news agency as well as the American Defense news site, the Turkish-Saudi contract as ice. They considered it an important break and beginning. In addition to Baykar, two other Turkish arms companies, Aslesan and Raketsan, have also signed contracts with the Saudis, which are related to the orders of ammunition and electronic warfare equipment.

that Turkey has committed to transfer technology to Saudi Arabia and this means a positive effect for the realization of the goals of the 2030 vision of Mohammed bin Salman. He admitted that the Saudis were supposed to first America and China should negotiate, but after several rounds of negotiations, they have come to the conclusion that Turkey is a more suitable option for military cooperation with Saudi Arabia.

One ​​of the American military experts in a note An analysis in Breaking Defense announced that the agreements signed by Baykar will create a long-term relationship between the defense industries of Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and this will increase Turkey’s cooperation with other countries in the Persian Gulf in the field of defense industries.

5 target areas for Turkish production weapons

For the past few years, Erdogan’s government has tried to sell its defense industry products and achievements in four important areas. Of course, in the meantime, he sometimes donates or donates his products and focuses on these five geographical areas:

1. Caucasus and Central Asia: Turkey after the Republic of Azerbaijan, It has also signed an agreement for the sale of drones with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

2. Persian Gulf and nearby geography: Turkey has sold weapons to Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and initial negotiations with Iraq and the United Arab Emirates have also reached preliminary results.

3. Black Sea and Eastern Europe: The first and most important customer of Turkish weapons in this region is Ukraine, but Poland and Hungary are also buyers. joined and Romania and Bulgaria are also on the list of targets.

4. Balkans: Albania and Serbia are two important clients of Turkey in this region.

5. Africa: In the past few years, it has sold drones to 11 African countries, including Morocco, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tunisia and Angola, and nearly 23 countries of the Black Continent are customers of individual weapons, personnel carriers and Turkish police equipment.

Turkey continues to export defense industries and all kinds of weapons and military and police equipment to different countries, and it is expected that the amount of exports will reach 30 billion dollars by 2030.

At the end, it should also be pointed out that Turkey in several cases, including Syria and Iraq, relying on its weapons power and confiscating the favorable security conditions of these two countries, with measures such as occupation, presence without permission and the arming of illegal groups has caused significant problems and has been accused of war-mongering and helping to develop war and insecurity in Libya.

On the other hand, Turkey in production Weapons and defense industries and military equipment never mention the share of imported sensitive parts and in many cases, it presents an unrealistic image about self-sufficiency in the production of weapons.

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