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Here is a simple chronology of events that will eventually make Turkey one of the few most advanced countries in the world that can build their own fighter jets.

2002: (Quoting Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu in January 2015): ?Turkey needs Israel even to just have its battle tanks repaired.?

Video from a US Coast Guard aircraft released Monday captured the drama of a single-engine airplane and its pilot splashing safely onto the Pacific Ocean thanks to a parachute inside its fuselage.
      

Two businessmen who are said to have mediated in the procurement of Super Puma rescue helicopters to the government more than a decade ago were given conditional release on Thursday on 250,000-euro bail payments after defending themselves before an investigating magistrate on charges of bribery and money laundering.

One of five heavy lift choppers that will be ordered by Ankara will be allocated to the Turkish presidency, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

Turkey is planning to buy four more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from the U.S., in addition to the two it had already ordered, the country's defense industry agency said.

A sun-powered plane was loaded onto a cargo carrier in Switzerland late Jan. 5 heading for the Middle East from where it will attempt a revolutionary round-the-world trip.
      

A civil aviation company belonging to Reza Zarrab, the Iranian-Azerbaijani businessman at the center of Turkey's suppressed corruption probe, has purchased a new plane worth $58 million.

Turkey has received its second A400M tactical transport aircraft from the Airbus consortium, the country's top defense industry procurement body has announced.

The Pentagon on Dec. 12 said Italy and Turkey would provide initial heavy maintenance of Lockheed Martin Corp's new F-35 fighter jet and its engine in Europe from 2018, paving the way for billions of dollars in work by companies there.

A Hellenic Navy vessel and a Super Puma helicopter were involved in the search for a missing migrant off the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes over the weekend.

The man was reportedly on board a 30-meter boat along with another 63 undocumented migrants when they were spotted by a cargo ship. The man subsequently fell into the sea and went missing.