Turkey 'pretending' to make its own UAV's
On Tuesday, I reported that Turkey had 'suspended' its contract to purchase UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicles) from Israel. A senior Israeli defense ministry source, however, has told YNet that the contract is continuing and that the Turkish army is 'pretending' that it is capable of producing UAV's directly to please Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish military is still using Israel-made UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), a senior source in the defense establishment said Monday, following a report in the Turkish daily Zaman, suggesting Ankara has ceased using such UAVs in favor of Turkish made ones.I'd rather Israel not be supplying advanced military technology to a country on the verge of becoming an enemy. But isn't it amazing how the Turks are capable of lying to themselves?
"Anyone paying attention to what is written in the report can immediately see that it's false," said the source. "There is no such thing as Turkish-made UAVs, simply because they do not manufacture any unmanned aerial vehicles.
"If the Turks were able to manufacture UAVs, they wouldn’t be buying them from Israel; and even if they started manufacturing them, they can't just dispose of an Israeli UAV, which they paid a fortune for, and spent months learning how to operate, and just change it," he said.
The Turks, he added, "Would have no problem stripping the UAV from its Israeli trademarks, giving it a new paint job, sticking the Turkish flag on it, and staging a photo op.
"This is all just a show for (Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip) Erdogan. Their prime minister is causing them a lot of grief. The military doesn’t like his policies – so he replaces generals.
"They need to take part in the show called 'we hate Israel' and pretend to boycott Israel. It's the same in Israel. As things stand, I meet with many high-ranking Turkish officials and both sides know that the relationship will continue."
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:35 AM
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Sorry, Carl, but this really says more about the stupid Jews than about the lying Turks.
Having to hide the truth from the power is probably the essential reason why Germany lost WWII.
One also recalls June 5, 1967 and the next couple of days, when reportage of the war had Israel taking massive losses. Oh they denied it but the Arabs wouldn't lie would they? Yes of course they would, because authoritarian regimes are built on lies from the ground up. Nasser probably believed he was winning at first.
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