Hold up there, you've seemed to have confused the timeline of events leading up to start of HISAR-U project. Let me get you up to speed;
Turkish officials never contemplated the idea of developing long range air defense missile, the idea was always to buy off the shelf with maximum offsets. China seemed to offer the best deal, but geopolitics and disagreements started around it, especially with NATO. While all that fuss was going on, Turkish Defense Industry showed officials capabilities of developing Indigenous. Infact, Turkish Defense Industry saw the gap, took the initiative and were working on HISAR-U project long before. Officials were impressed with work completed so far and cancelled agreement with china.
NATO. I know it's not an ideal solution, but let's be real. There's no short term procurement, especially with complex systems such as MEADS. The only short term viable defense is NATO setting up patriots, as they have done..
