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Why did they reject? And why AH-1W not AH-64 Apache?
They pointed out that 145 USA Marine Cobra's are actively used on Afghanistan. Transfering 12 of them to Turkey may create some weakness to the effectiness of operations so They rejected. That is what They revealed into public but I don't know whether It is the real reason or not...
Actually Turkey requested aprox. 30 SuperCobra attack helicopters as a stopgap solution until T-129 completed but Instead of SuperCobra, USA strongly offered AH-64 Apaches instead of Cobra's. This offer is rejected by Turkey because While development of T-129 is continuing and Army operates Bell Cobra helicopters, 3th type attack helicopter would have created logistic nightmare, new training, new maintenance workload...etc No need to mention How expensive Apache's operational and maintenance costs...