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Baykar drones at heart of Turkish-Emirati reconciliation

Bayraktar TB2 drone exhibited at Saha Expo 2021 in Istanbul. © Twitter @BaykarTech

Turkey and the UAE are committed to normalising their relations and hope to see a fruitful economic relationship emerge based on defence investments. All this depends, however, on the two countries being able to take the sting out of certain sticking points, not least the matter of Mohamed Dahlan, protected by Abu Dhabi and targeted by Ankara. [...] (592 words)

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Abbas Kamel
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Abu Fadi
Ali bin Mohammed Al Shamsi
Baykar Makina
Hakan Fidan
Hamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Kemal Eskintan
Mahmoud Abbas
MIT
Mohamed Dahlan
Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Sedat Peker
Selçuk Bayraktar
Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nayan
Turkish Aircraft Industries

Hakan Fidan, the unstoppable reformer of Turkish intelligence

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Hakan Fidan, head of Turkey's National Intelligence Agency MIT.

AZERBAIJAN ISRAEL TURKEY 19/05/2022

Baku makes drones central to its regional cooperation ambitions

Drawing lessons from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev is counting on his regional partners to beef up his military capabilities. Developing a drone industry lies at the heart of his strategy.

The president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

TURKEY UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 13/05/2022

Aselsan, Baykar, TOGG: Abu Dhabi eyes acquisition of Turkey's military industry

The UAE's busy national security adviser Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan has designs on Turkey's defence industry and is looking to acquire a stake in Aselsan, while keeping one eye on the reconciliation between Riyadh and Ankara.

SYRIA TURKEY 02/05/2022

Turkish and Syrian spymasters making furtive moves to prepare for future normalisation

Though far from singing the praises of Bashar Al Assad's regime, Ankara recognises that the regime's continued existence points to a need to restore dialogue between the two countries. Turkey's intelligence service, the MIT, is taking the first steps towards this.

BALKANS TURKEY 27/04/2022

Drone exports: Havelsan and STM zoom in on Bosnia to compete with rival Baykar

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TURKEY UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 01/04/2022

Turkey's Abu Dhabi cyber charm offensive flops at GISEC

Ankara is trying to lay the foundations of a Turkish-Emirati partnership in cyber defence, but the plan is hampered by lingering mutual mistrust.

TURKEY 07/03/2022

Turkey highlights safe satellite communication capacity to promote drone exports

Ankara has taken a step towards an independent and exporting defence industry with the deployment of a new secure military satellite communications system. This comes after criticism of its drones being highly vulnerable to detection.

FRANCE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 27/01/2022

Technip loses its case against its former agent in Abu Dhabi

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ISRAEL TURKEY UNITED STATES 20/12/2021

Alexander Machkevich, the financier diplomat helping Turkey reconcile with Israel

Despite their ongoing differences, Ankara has reached out to Tel Aviv as it continues to patch up relations with its regional neighbours, helped by advocates of the reconciliation in both Turkey and Israel. These proponents of a warming of relations include Mendy Chitrik, head of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States that receives funding from Kazakh oligarch Alexander Machkevich.

IRAN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 14/12/2021

Abu Dhabi puts aside inter-Emirati differences for rapprochement with Tehran

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UAE National Security Advisor Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Iranian President Ebrahim Raissi in Tehran on 6 December 2021.

FRANCE TURKEY 10/12/2021

French small businesses court Turkish drone industry

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Spy chief Majed Faraj presses his case to succeed Abbas in Dubai

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Head of the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Service, Majed Faraj.

TURKEY UKRAINE 11/11/2021

Ukraine's use of Turkish drones highlights flourishing bilateral defence relationship

When Kyiv used its Bayraktar drones against pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, Ankara raised a contrary eye, but the increasingly strong Turco-Ukrainian military partnership appears to have come out unscathed.

Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu tried to officially disassociate Ankara from the operation.

TURKEY UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 01/09/2021

Intelligence action behind Turkey-UAE rapprochement

Recep Tayyip Erdogan's official meeting with UAE's national security advisor Tahnoon bin Zayed and renewed ties with Abu Dhabi is the fruit of behind-the-scenes regional intelligence operations. While there is still a deep political divide between the two countries, the Turkish president hopes to encourage future Emirati investment.

UAE national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan (left) and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, 18 August 2021.

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Abbas Kamel
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Abu Fadi
Ali bin Mohammed Al Shamsi
Baykar Makina
Hakan Fidan
Hamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Kemal Eskintan
Mahmoud Abbas
MIT
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Sedat Peker
Selçuk Bayraktar
Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nayan
Turkish Aircraft Industries

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Hakan Fidan, the unstoppable reformer of Turkish intelligence

Baku makes drones central to its regional cooperation ambitions

Aselsan, Baykar, TOGG: Abu Dhabi eyes acquisition of Turkey's military industry

Turkish and Syrian spymasters making furtive moves to prepare for future normalisation

Drone exports: Havelsan and STM zoom in on Bosnia to compete with rival Baykar

Turkey's Abu Dhabi cyber charm offensive flops at GISEC

Turkey highlights safe satellite communication capacity to promote drone exports

Technip loses its case against its former agent in Abu Dhabi

Alexander Machkevich, the financier diplomat helping Turkey reconcile with Israel

Abu Dhabi puts aside inter-Emirati differences for rapprochement with Tehran

French small businesses court Turkish drone industry

Spy chief Majed Faraj presses his case to succeed Abbas in Dubai

Ukraine's use of Turkish drones highlights flourishing bilateral defence relationship

Intelligence action behind Turkey-UAE rapprochement

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