By Dimitris Georgopoulos
Oct 27, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a deal on Monday in which Turkey bought 20 Eurofighter Typhoon jets for 8 billion pounds ($10.7 billion), his office said, deepening the NATO allies’ defense ties and bolstering Turkish air defenses.
In July, Turkey and Britain had signed a preliminary purchase deal for 40 Typhoons approved by Eurofighter consortium members including Germany, Italy and Spain, represented by Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo.
Turkey, enjoying its warmest ties with the West in years, has sought to procure the Eurofighters and also potentially US-made F-35s to backstop its ageing fleet of mostly F-16s.
Europe has increasingly turned to Turkey, NATO’s second-largest military and a major exporter of armed drones, to reinforce its eastern flank against Russia and potentially backstop any future post-war “stabilization force” in Ukraine. Turkey plans to buy 24 more Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets – 12 from Oman and 12 from Qatar – to strengthen its air fleet, the Turkish defense ministry said on Monday. Erdogan visited Qatar and Oman last week.
Blinded by their warmongering policy towards Russia, Europeans are more and more overlooking the fact Turkey is not recognizing one of their members (!!!), the Republic of Cyprus and is still occupying a part of its territory, that is of the territory of the EU itself (!!!), in spite of numerous UN resolutions! The occupied part of Cyprus is the most militarized territory on Earth. Turkey is also threatening with war Greece, another member of the EU. The Turkish National Assembly has voted a resolution threatening explicitly Greece with war, if it decides to declare territorial waters of 12 miles, according to the UN convention of the Law of the Sea. Greece and Turkey came three times close to war in 2020, according to the then Greek Minister of Defense. Turkey has the largest landing fleet in the world opposite to the Greek islands of Eastern Aegean, while it has territorial claims on more than 100 islands and islets of the Aegean Sea. President Erdogan himself has threatened to bomb Athens with his missiles https://www.politico.eu/article/erdogan-warns-greece-that-turkish-missiles-can-reach-athens%EF%BF%BC/.
NATO’s war by proxy against Russia has provided the US and Britain a golden opportunity to bring back their old project of inclusion of Turkey into the European Defense and the EU, in spite of the extremely undemocratic regime in Ankara, of its support for jihadist rule in Syria and of the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Nagorno – Karabach (Artsah) and also of the impossibility of including an economy with the characteristics of the Turkish economy into the EU. Or even of the fact a majority of European citizens are against such a perspective.
Under normal conditions, the Cypriot and Greek governments should oppose a fierce resistance to all those projects. But Cyprus and Greece do not exist anymore as sovereign states. They have turned into protectorates of the “collective West”, governed by puppets, in particular after the “bail-out” and the “bail-in” programs applied to Greece and Cyprus respectively. Their governments are even prepared to make serious concessions in order to satisfy Washington’s and London’s desire to bring Ankara into the EU.
All that is deeply irrational. The anti-Russian hysteria of the West brings more and more irrationality (entropy) in the situation of the whole continent. In the case of Eastern Mediterranean, those projects do not facilitate peace between Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. They lay the basis for more and more dangerous conflict in Eastern Mediterranean.
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