{"id":671759,"date":"2026-01-03T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671759\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:17:12","slug":"turkeys-erdogan-hails-2-6-billion-euro-jet-deal-with-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671759\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey’s Erdogan hails 2.6 billion euro jet deal with Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Spain’s acquirement of 30 HURJET aircraft from Turkey is valued at around 2.6 billion euros [Getty\/file photo]<\/p>\n

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> on Saturday welcomed an agreement under which Spain <\/a>will procure Turkish-made HURJET training aircraft, describing it as evidence of Turkey’s “pioneering role” in defence and aviation industry.<\/p>\n

Under the deal, signed this week, the Spanish Air Force will acquire 30 HURJET aircraft from Turkey in a contract valued at around 2.6 billion euros, according to Turkish officials.<\/p>\n

Speaking at an event in Istanbul, Erdogan said Turkey had become a globally recognised player in the defence and aviation sectors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Most recently, the agreement we concluded with Spain has confirmed our country’s pioneering role in this field,” Erdogan said.<\/p>\n

He added that the inclusion of HURJET in the inventory of a European Union and NATO member state would further expand Turkey’s opportunities in the coming years.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Haluk Gorgun, head of Turkey’s defence industry agency, described the agreement as more than a simple aircraft sale.<\/p>\n

“This is not merely a training aircraft deal,” Gorgun said. “It is a comprehensive package that includes ground systems, simulation systems, maintenance and sustainment services, as well as a cooperation model.”<\/p>\n

He added that the agreement underscored the deepening of defence industry and high-technology cooperation between Turkey and Spain, noting that the aircraft configuration would be updated over time to meet Spain’s specific operational requirements.<\/p>\n

Turkey has steadily expanded its defence exports in recent years, including drones <\/a>that have been sold to multiple countries.<\/p>\n

Erdogan said Turkey’s defence exports, which stood at $248 million in 2002, had increased nearly 40 fold to reach $9.8 billion in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain’s acquirement of 30 HURJET aircraft from Turkey is valued at around 2.6 billion euros [Getty\/file photo] President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[28829,19289,2000,299,104,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-671759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-air-defence","9":"tag-deal","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-spain","13":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115832779067833292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}