As the current ACAS(Strategy) is an ex-trucky (AVM Simon Edwards) there is an informed voice at the top table.
Turkey is in the process of modernizing the avionics of 19 C-130Bs and Es which will continue to operate along side its A400Ms and CN-235s.
Erdoğan's policies are about 'Making Turkey Great (and Islamic) Again' and he would clearly cut ties to NATO and particularly the US, if he no longer saw them as necessary. According to the pro-government Daily Sabah he appears to be open to friendly relations with the Taliban. Adding them to friendships with other unsavoury governments. Pakistan is clearly happy with the change (and not just the military); to quote The Guardian from last week: 'In Pakistan – long accused of aiding the Afghan Taliban – the prime minister, Imran Khan, said the Taliban had “broken the chains of mental slavery in Afghanistan”. The leader of a key religious political party said the “Taliban has freed their country from superpowers”.'
https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/...in-afghanistan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ce-afghanistan
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