Opinion is BAF should approached Turkey for TAI Hürkuş for BAF Training, it would be a good head start in cooperation and relations.
I was more interested in Turkish developed 'real' weapons, as in anti tank missiles like UMTAS, OMTAS, CIRIT, whatever they are called. No restrictions, no strings attached and such. Trainers or such? Don't care either way, because nobody can hold BD hostage by blocking supply of some trainer aircrafts, I reckon, and Hurkus is a primary trainer not some light attack aircraft like Yak-130 either, so that would not be the foremost item on my shopping list from 'Turkish shopping centre'. Of course, different ppl may think differently.
How far has Turkey progressed with its anti-ship, anti-submarine, land attack cruise missiles? Those are things we can also look into, because those are developed in Turkey, I think, so no restrictions again. But unlike some other members, I am not much interested in Milgem or Type-209 or some other so called Turkish submarine (actually German submarine, license produced in Turkey probably, like they do in Korea as well). The reason is, most of the major subsystems are foreign (Western), and again, your entire 'supply line' is at the mercy of the West in times of crisis.
I would much rather go with direct procurement of ships and subs from China at this stage at cheap, friendship prices, and possibly develop indigenous frigates sometime later with Chinese cooperation if given the choice. The Chinese also 'control' the entire supply line, are closer to us geographically, is a much larger manufacturing power, and shares a common enemy as well (that helps).
From Turkey, things like anti-tank, land attack cruise missiles etc will be on my personal list (others can differ on this issue), and if/when they develop some potent SAM, AAM, we can look into those, I think. From Iran, I would look into designs and technology transfer for SSM, but no complete system transfer (then foreign intel can track them much more easily), but they had better be done quite secretively, if Iran agrees of course.
We should not procure something just because it has the label of favoured country X, Y or Z on it. We need to ensure the supply line is secured, the producer is entirely independent, it will not budge in times of crisis under foreign pressure, threats or whatever else, and preferably, that they would be able to transfer the systems at favourable rates.
Also, given that for oil rich desert dwellers, Turkey under Erdogan is all the new rage, maybe Erdogan should ask those oil rich desert kingdoms, using his diplomatic skills, to set up a common OIC-wide defence fund, where the cash surplus and wealthy countries (let's say, countries with GDP/capita in excess of $20,000) would pool a certain tiny % of their annual surplus earning and those funds will be used for the procurement of weapons systems for OIC countries short of huge reserves.
Just imagine if the surplus wealth of some OIC countries were coupled with the surplus populations and huge domestic markets of some other OIC countries, how much benefits the entire OIC could derive from such synergistic cooperation?
I think this is an avenue that Erdogan and Abdullah Gul should pursue to help strengthen the defences of all the resource-poor countries in the OIC, and in future, create similar funds to help bolster different sectors like education, S&T research, food production (because many OIC countries are just desert and produce very little food), and all other vital sectors.
Win-win cooperation for all (OIC members).
