Published February 22,2024
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at a neighborhood election rally organized by the ruling Justice and Development [AK] Party within the Aegean province of Denizli.
During his speech at a neighborhood election rally in Türkiye’s Denizli province on Thursday, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan underlined the aim of integrating the Turkish-made fighter jet KAAN into our army fleet by the top of 2028.
Erdoğan laid out the following keynotes in his speech:
“We have aligned our nation with the bold growth venture of the primary century of our republic, the 2023 targets. Similarly, we will even obtain the imaginative and prescient of the second century of our republic, the Turkish Century. The most vital factor we have to do for that is to protect our unity, solidarity, and brotherhood. We see the upcoming elections as the primary steps to arrange our cities for the Turkish Century with this understanding.
One of a very powerful pillars of our imaginative and prescient for the Turkish Century is to raise our nation to the highest league in protection trade and know-how. Despite many obstacles and covert embargoes, we’re continually enhancing ourselves on this subject. In simply the previous 12 months, now we have formally launched dozens of initiatives in air, land, and sea platforms. We have elevated the share of home manufacturing from round 20% once we took workplace to round 80%. We put an finish to the nation that used to acquire most of its weapons from overseas even for combating terrorism. Now, all the pieces is ours; we produce them ourselves. We can now produce nearly all of the weapons we’d like with our personal capabilities. Moreover, we will export them to pleasant and brotherly international locations.
Last 12 months, we achieved $5.5 billion in protection exports. We are one of many 10 international locations on this planet that construct our personal warships. Not solely can we design and produce our ships ourselves, however we additionally develop many applied sciences from weapon methods to radars. Unmanned aerial automobiles UAVs, UCAVs, AKINCI, and now our newest KAAN. But now we have one other essential step. We despatched our astronaut into area. With the service entry of KIZILELMA and ANKA-3, we’re breaking new floor on this subject and have additionally launched our KAAN into the sky. Our fifth era fighter plane KAAN efficiently accomplished its maiden flight. KAAN, the results of about 15 years of effort and willpower, handed one other essential threshold with yesterday’s take a look at. God keen, we plan to combine KAAN into our air drive by the top of 2028.
Despite the painful interval the international financial system and our area are going by means of, we’re mobilizing the sources of our state for our folks. The closest witness to the honest wrestle we’re waging to stop our staff and retirees from being crushed by inflation is our nation itself. For the 12 months 2024, now we have made will increase above the inflation charges for minimal wage earners, public servants, and retirees. We don’t flip a deaf ear to the grievances of any of our folks. We try to fulfill the calls for of our residents even on the expense of pushing the bounds of our finances. Hopefully, as inflation begins to say no quickly by the top of this 12 months, we are going to all breathe extra simply collectively.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr