KediKesenFare3
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Unfortunately, like every military man in the Middle East the Turkish generals, too, preferred for a long time Western weapons over homegrown alternatives.I don't know about Turkish politics but I believe that military R&D in aviation was stepped up exponentially in 2001 or 2002.
There were some developments in the 90's but the current state of our defense industry is probably the biggest achievement of AKP.
This doesn't mean that AKP didn't make mistakes - some of the choices they made were flat out wrong but in general and to answer the question of the opening post: it was the civil government that has developed the Turkish defense industry.