Well im sure if Turkey was to go on with the Chinese HQ-9 anti aircraft missiles or whatever, i dont see it being a problem like our leaders are making it to be. Yes we will make alot of noise(mainly because we want Turkey to sell our own air defence system to Turkey, so its more about money/leverage than anything), but we wont do anything more apart from that. Greece also purchased Russian S-300 missiles, and we did make some noise/pressure them not to, but when they did we just made them know our concerns, but without doing much, it will be the same with Turkey. So i dont see why Turkey wont be able to cooperate with Iran on SLV system, afterall, it will be of great benefit to Turkey and the region as a whole. Yes we will make alot of noise, but no real actions will be taken per se. So its up to Turkey to make its own decisions, afterall its a major country/power in the region, and i suppose its a sovereign/independent country, so why won't it be able to make its own decisions/protect its own interests? huh.....well thats if its really independent.lol
Mate, Greek S-300s are standalone they are not interoperating with NATO radars.
On the other hand we want HQ-9s interoperable with the NATO systems in our country since they are covering half of our air space. NATO objects this since they fear that sensible data can be leaked to Chinese.
We said, as Turkey we will produce a buffer system which will seperate HQ-9 system with Nato Sytems.
Like;
NATO radar --------- > Turkish System <------------- HQ-9 systems.
NATO even declined this and said it's out of question.
“If, say, the Chinese win the competition, their systems will be in interaction, directly or indirectly, with NATO’s intelligence systems, and this may lead to the leak of critical NATO information to the Chinese, albeit inadvertently. So this is dangerous,” said one Western specialist.
“NATO won’t let that happen,” a different Western official said to the Turkish newspaper. “If the Chinese or the Russians win the Turkish contest, their systems will have to work separately. They won’t be linked to NATO information systems.”
NATO warns Turkey Not to Purchase China’s HQ-9 Missile System | China Defense Mashup
The thing is, I used thing that we should press hard on HQ-9 system because of the ToT. Even if means it means to use the system as standalone.
But a few months ago Turkey's Aselsan came up and claimed that They can build a similar anti-air defence system within 7 years. (Eurosam's propasal is also 7 years.)
So, now it's clear that. We are not direly in need of ToT in this deal.
This concludes Turkey's position on HQ-9 system. Now on the "cooperating with Iran for a joint SLV system".
As you know, Iran is under UN sanctions with bars UN countries trading with Iran on specific sectors/industries. US, 2 years ago blacklisted a Chinese company for dealing with Iran.
Passed it, you propose Turkey to violate MTCR
Missile Technology Control Regime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which we are member of it.
Also, we had not been in good relations with Iran for hundreds of years. And they are ahead of us in this front. I don't think they would share their knowledge with Turks in the first place.
