Turkey has about 2550 armored personnel carriers, of which 99% are American made, as are all but two of its 170 fixed wing aircraft.
Less than 1% of Turkey’s 760 "towed" artillery are homemade; the rest, again, are manufactured in the US.
80% of its 990 "self-propelled" artillery pieces are made in the U.S.A.
Less than 2% of Turkey’s 3,250 "Main Battle Tanks" are manufactured there; 53% are American made; another 24% are joint U.S./Israel products. (The rest come from Germany.)
In short, the Turkish military doesn’t function without the U.S. weapons industry
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/10/11/turkey-kurds-and-lots-and-lots-us-weapons
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