Interesting development. But considering how stressful engine development is for the Chinese (and an failure for the Indians), sure the Turks must find some difficulty in jet engines. I mean the PRC is practically planning to spend 25 billion dollars on it's WS series engines.
Does Turkey have the capability of building an indigenous turbofan jet and create good materials to create super-alloys and ceramics to withstand heat for the turbine blades.
Despite it's young origin, the Chinese engine industry is catching up quite fast. But why did it take an bit long to mature? Was it the complexity to develop super-alloys needed to develop an heat resistant turbine blade? I though China (and E.Asia in general) were quite advance in Ceramics and...
But it would be cool to see an LHD in, lets say, the Indian Ocean or the Red Sea, operating with T-129s and TH-70s (TAI version of UH-60 BH) in these type of crisis. But your right, the French Air Force would probably be near...
Damn Japan is declining. @Sinan What do make of turkey's result in this olympiad score? Last year your country scored 8th! Still better than UK though.
Hence forth why China is now trying to relay on the domestic markets recently, as they accumulated capital from all those years of FDI and export revenues. And GDP per Capita of 9,000 with 700 million people, and an middle class the size of the US population is an formidable market.