Ukraine today stands out as Turkey’s chief partner in a series of critical military technologies

Ukraine today stands out as Turkey’s chief partner in a series of critical military technologies such as turbo prop and diesel engines, avionics, drones, anti-ship and cruise missiles, radar and surveillance systems, space and satellite technologies, robotic systems, active and passive armor protection systems and rocket engines and guidance systems,” writes Gurcan, who served as a Turkish military advisor in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Iraq before writing his Phd dissertation on Turkey’s changing military. “Technological cooperation between the two sides has dramatically increased over the past two years, laying the ground for a techno-scientific alliance with far-reaching implications for the geopolitical balance of power in the Black Sea basin.”