Turkey buying air-defenses from China!

[man]

Turkey said in September it had chosen the FD-2000 long-range air and missile defense system from China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp, over rival systems from Russian, U.S. and European firms.

This Chinese firm, CPMIEC, is under U.S. sanctions for violations of the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act. Moreover Turkey is thumping its noise at NATO alliance and is buying a system that is not compatible with other members of NATO of 28 nations alliance of which Turkey is also a member.

Turkey said China's offer met its primary demands on price and the ability to place much of the production in Turkey and that it will soon sign the $3.4 billion deal with CPMIEC even though this firm is under U.S. sanctions

The China deal has sparked speculation of a broader rift between Ankara and Washington, however since Washington always capitulates and kneels before Turkey it indicated there is no rift, Turkey is still a strong partner, only there is concern that the deal undermines allied air defenses. Washington was about to deliver 10 Predator drones to Turkey but because of Chinese infiltration and construction of air defenses of Turkey and the possibility of passing the technical secrets of US drones into the Chinese hands, US halted the delivery of those drones to Turkey.

But in Turkey they have another viewpoint. An October 16 Washington Post article revealed that the Turkish government had exposed to Iranian intelligence authorities the identities of “up to 10 Iranians” that had been meeting inside Turkey with their Mossad case officers. This betrayal of Turkey of Israel by sharing information about Mossad with the Iranian intelligence service, upset the Israeli and Washington and the delivery of 10 Predators to Turkey was stopped.

The future yet may see more chastisements from Washington leveled on Turkey for its betrayal of its partners of the West.

Edited October 25, 2013 by man

[man]

Why Turkey is opting for its air-space defense the Chinese version of US Patriots, Russian S-300, and European SAMP/T ?
Could it be in order to send a message to NATO?

Because China, unlike the West & Russia, offered to co-produce its system, the FD-2000, with Turkish specialists and agreed to transfer the design technology of the system to Turkey. With the design technology on hand, in the future the Turks will not be needing the Chinese. They even can start exporting their own version of those air defenses. The Turkish plans to invade Europe in the future are going according to the schedule.

“The only reason why Turkey didn’t have them [the air defense systems] until now is because they wanted to achieve the technological information and know-how to produce these systems,” A Turkish military source said. “I think Turkey’s choice is a message to its NATO allies in this sense.”

[man]

At the end Turkey will never sign the air defense deal with China; it's all a ploy that the Turks are famous of when bargaining bazaar style whatever they do when buying something. In Istanbul if you are going to buy something from a shop you can lower the price to that half asked by the Turkish seller. What the Turks are trying to achieve now is a bargain deal from France-Italy or US to lower the prices of their own air defenses for Turkey; it's all a Turkish ploy to make the West lower their prices. Currently the price China offered to Turkey is one billion $ cheaper than that of the West, plus the Chinese promised to build free of charge a new technology park close to an Istanbul airport with the deal. But the Turks know that the Chinese system is much less accurate than that of the West and that of Russia, and that the Chinese system may not work at all or work with low margin of success in defending Turkey's air space. Hence all the talks about the deal is a show.

Turkey knows very well that the Chinese weapons cannot be integrated with NATO's radar technology. No NATO country is going to hand over to the Chinese the radar codes that would allow the defensive missiles to detect friend from foe. This may point to an a important fact, if the Chines deal goes thru, that Turkey is considering to secede from NATO in the future in order to expand toward Greece, toward Europe and convert all the infidel gavours in the region to Islam by military conquest.

Turkey's "Zero problems" has become "nothing but problems." for Turkey if we add to that the currant worsening relations with the West.