Can Turkey’s defense industry deliver strategic autonomy for Ankara? | Brookings

Absent institutionalized defense industrial cooperation with the EU, the gap between Ankara’s strategic autonomy rhetoric and its defense industrial capabilities may widen.

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Serhat Güvenç

Professor of International Relations

- Kadir Has University

June 25, 2026

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