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Sputnik International
Dec 29 2020 03:50 Gmt+3
Last Updated On: Dec 29 2020 03:52 Gmt+3
Turkey’s military procurement agency will lead a project to develop a lightweight torpedo to replace two U.S.-made ones, India-based DefenseWorld.net reported on Monday.
The project will eliminate Turkey’s external dependence on lightweight torpedoes, it said.
İsmail Demir, head of the Presidency of Defence Industries, announced the project to develop the Orka torpedo in a Twitter post on Sunday.
The torpedo will be designed and manufactured by defence contractor Roketsan and subcontracted by ASELSAN, a Turkish defence giant, DefenseWorld said.
Roketsan said that the development project was launched to ensure the safety of the Blue Homeland, according to DefenseWorld.net. The “Blue Homeland” is a Turkish naval expansion doctrine which lays claim to wide-ranging territorial waters in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas – resulting in a series of territorial violations with Greece.
Last Updated On: Dec 25 2020 01:23 Gmt+3
Turkey’s relationships with the West are set for a complicated start in the new year.
On December 11, the European Union announced that it would be expanding its list of Turkish officials and entities subject to sanctions for Turkey’s drilling activities in waters off the coast of member states Greece and Cyprus. There were no new names mentioned at the time of the announcement.
The following week kicked off with a second sanctions announcement from across the Atlantic. On December 14, the United States declared it would be sanctioning the Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB) head Ismail Demir and several other executives for the purchase of the S-400 missile defence system from Russia.
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On December 14, 2020, the United States
imposed sanctions on the Republic of Turkey s
Presidency of Defense Industries ( SSB ), the
country s defense procurement agency, and four senior officials
at the agency, for knowingly engaging in a significant
transaction with Rosoboronexport ( ROE ),
Russia s main arms export entity, in procuring the S-400
surface-to-air missile system. These measures were a long-time
coming under
Section 231 of the Countering America s
Adversaries Through Sanctions Act ( CAATSA ) of 2017, the
President has been
required to impose sanctions
on any person determined to have knowingly engage[d] in a