{"id":477,"date":"2015-01-08T11:56:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T11:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=477"},"modified":"2017-11-20T17:23:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T17:23:48","slug":"turkey-to-purchase-f-35-fighter-jets-and-helicopters-from-us-turkish-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/turkey-to-purchase-f-35-fighter-jets-and-helicopters-from-us-turkish-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to purchase F-35 fighter jets and helicopters from US: Turkish PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has announced plans by his country to purchase four more F-35 fighter jets and an additional five helicopters from the US.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is planned that Turkey will buy 100 F-35 warplanes in the project. We previously ordered two in this framework. We have now decided to order four more,\u201d Davutoglu said on Wednesday following a meeting of Turkey\u2019s Under-secretariat for Defense Industries concerning defense purchases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Turkish premier also said five more CH-47F Chinook heavy transport helicopters will be purchased from the US, increasing the total number of the helicopters bought so far to 11.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Davutoglu added that the decision was in line with Turkey\u2019s planned long-range missile system project, which seeks to replace country\u2019s aging F-4 and F-16 fleet with the 100 F-35s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the acquisition of the total order has been hampered by increasing costs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hi-tech F-35 jet fighters, manufactured by the US Lockheed Martin Company for the US military and allies in a $399-billion project, are reportedly the Pentagon\u2019s most expensive weapons program ever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2012, Turkey announced its plans to purchase 100 F-35 jet fighters from the United States at a cost of $16 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has announced plans by his country to purchase four more F-35 fighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[6,252,356,5,82,7],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-defense","tag-f-35","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-turkey","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Turkey-F35-Jet.jpg?fit=615%2C359&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-7H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5444,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/5444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}