The UK signed an £8 billion ($10.7 billion) deal to sell 20 Typhoon fighter jets to Turkey, an order which Prime Minister Keir Starmer portrayed as a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin about NATO’s long-term unity.
The agreement reached by Starmer and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Monday is the first new order for BAE Systems-made Typhoons since 2017. It is Britain’s biggest fighter-jet deal for almost two decades, and Turkey’s first purchase of combat aircraft from a country other than the US.
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