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Istanbul-based shipbuilder Sedef has been contracted by the Undersecretary for Defense Industries (SSM) to build the country's amphibious landing platform dock (LPD) warship for the Turkish Naval Forces. 

The deal was signed at the International Defense Industries Fair (IDEF) in Istanbul on May 7. The cost of the scheme was not disclosed.

Many new, locally-produced defense products and technologies have been exhibited in the 12th International Defense Industries Fair (IDEF), which will run until May 8. 

A Turkish army-affiliated software company has introduced a new warning system boasting an integrated drone at a new technologies fair in Germany.

The Turkish Armed Forces Foundation-affiliated software and systems company, HAVELSAN, introduced at the 2015 CeBIT Fair the Sezgin, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) integrated early warning system on late March 18.

Turkey has again extended by two months the deadline for bids for a multi-billion dollar anti-missile defense system tender, despite having provisionally awarded the deal to China, a Turkish official has told the Hürriyet Daily News.

Ezgi Başaran wrote in daily Radikal this week that the results coming from ballot boxes were collected at the Supreme Election Board (YSK) with software that does not have a proper certificate.

The issues she pointed out are these: