{"id":22849,"date":"2026-06-02T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trialoog.taltech.ee\/?p=22849"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:44:50","slug":"saban-ibrahim-goksal-how-turkish-defence-companies-are-bypassing-safe-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trialoog.taltech.ee\/en\/saban-ibrahim-goksal-how-turkish-defence-companies-are-bypassing-safe-exclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Saban Ibrahim G\u00f6ksal: how Turkish defence companies are bypassing SAFE exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s exclusion from the European Union\u2019s SAFE (Security Action for Europe) defence funding programme \u2013 due to the absence of a formal security agreement with Brussels \u2013 has prompted its leading defence companies to adopt a pragmatic \u201clocal bridge\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[727,254,844],"class_list":["post-22849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-defence-industry","tag-european-union","tag-turkey"],"acf":{"postbuilder":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","type":"text","text":"By establishing joint ventures, acquiring facilities or investing directly in European production sites, Turkish firms are creating a European \u201cface\u201d for their technologies. This gives them indirect access to EU markets, supply chains and related funding streams, while delivering tangible benefits to host countries and the wider EU in the form of jobs, industrial capacity and greater security resilience.\r\n\r\nThree high-profile initiatives illustrate this emerging playbook.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<h4>Baykar and Leonardo: LBA Systems, Italy, June 2025<\/h4>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nBaykar and Italy\u2019s Leonardo have formed a 50-50 joint venture headquartered in Italy. LBA Systems focuses on the design, development, production and support of unmanned aerial systems, integrating Baykar\u2019s proven platforms \u2013 including the TB2 family, Ak\u0131nc\u0131 and K\u0131z\u0131lelma \u2013 with Leonardo\u2019s sensors, payloads, certification expertise and integrated mission systems.\r\n\r\n<strong>Objectives for Italy<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe partnership is expected to revitalise Italy\u2019s aerospace sector through the acquisition and expansion of Piaggio Aerospace facilities in Villanova d\u2019Albenga, Genoa and other sites. It secures and expands high-skilled local employment, transfers advanced UAV manufacturing know-how and localises production, maintenance and supply chains.\r\n\r\nItalian officials have described the initiative as a major step towards strengthening national operational and technological capabilities, while embedding cutting-edge innovation within Italy\u2019s industrial base.\r\n\r\n<strong>Contribution to European security<\/strong>\r\n\r\nLBA Systems helps close Europe\u2019s capability gap in tactical and strategic drones relative to the United States and China. It promises certifiable platforms built to NATO and EU standards, strengthening multi-domain operations, AI-enabled capabilities and supply-chain resilience \u2013 all critical amid heightened regional threats.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dual-use innovation<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe collaboration also enhances flexibility for dual-use applications. Beyond military roles, the systems can support training, logistics, civil protection, disaster response and surveillance missions, demonstrating how military-grade unmanned aerial systems can deliver civilian value while meeting strict European certification standards.\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">LBA Systems helps close Europe\u2019s capability gap in tactical and strategic drones relative to the United States and China.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","image":null,"align":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":22866},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","type":"text","text":"<ul>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<h4>ARCA Savunma and ARCA Baltic, Estonia, April 2026<\/h4>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nARCA Savunma won a strategic tender in Estonia\u2019s P\u00f5hja-Kivi\u00f5li defence industrial park. The company is investing approximately \u20ac300 million to establish ARCA Baltic, a major <a href=\"https:\/\/estonianworld.com\/security\/northern-estonia-to-get-a-e300-million-ammo-factory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">artillery ammunition production<\/a> facility. Production is scheduled to begin in 2028, with the potential to create up to 1,000 new jobs.\r\n\r\n<strong>Objectives for Estonia<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAs a frontline NATO member on the alliance\u2019s eastern flank, Estonia is seeking to build a domestic defence industrial base, retain more defence spending within the country and reduce its heavy reliance on distant imports.\r\n\r\nThe ARCA project represents one of the largest foreign direct investments in Estonia\u2019s emerging defence sector. It will create high-skilled jobs in Ida-Viru County, a former industrial region undergoing economic renewal, while boosting local tax revenues and supporting long-term industrial growth.\r\n\r\nBy establishing sovereign munitions production on Estonian soil, the initiative strengthens national supply security and positions Estonia as a net contributor to allied defence capabilities, rather than solely a consumer of them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Contribution to European security<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe factory will significantly bolster NATO\u2019s eastern flank by providing a reliable, regionally located source of 155mm and other artillery munitions. In an era of sustained high-intensity conflict, as demonstrated by the war in Ukraine, local production depth enhances readiness, deterrence, rapid resupply and overall alliance resilience.\r\n\r\nIt also directly supports the Baltic states and broader European collective defence, reducing dependence on transatlantic or far-eastern logistics.\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By establishing sovereign munitions production on Estonian soil, the initiative strengthens national supply security and positions Estonia as a net contributor to allied defence capabilities, rather than solely a consumer of them.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","image":null,"align":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":22864},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","type":"text","text":"<ul>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<h4>TUSA\u015e and BAE Systems: uncrewed air systems collaboration, United Kingdom, November 2025<\/h4>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nTurkish Aerospace, also known as TUSA\u015e, signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK defence company BAE Systems to explore joint opportunities in uncrewed aerial systems, including fixed-wing, rotary-wing and hybrid configurations.\r\n\r\n<strong>Objectives for the UK<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe memorandum of understanding brings together complementary strengths: TUSA\u015e\u2019s platform expertise and BAE Systems\u2019 combat-air systems know-how. The aim is to accelerate innovation, create cost-effective solutions and open new market opportunities.\r\n\r\nThe agreement builds on existing bilateral defence ties, including the Eurofighter programme, and positions the UK as a hub for next-generation uncrewed aerial systems development.\r\n\r\n<strong>Contribution to European security<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe partnership strengthens NATO interoperability and collective capability in uncrewed systems. By combining British and Turkish expertise, it supports the development of advanced systems for surveillance, strike and multi-domain operations, enhancing Europe\u2019s overall deterrence and operational edge.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dual-use innovation<\/strong>\r\n\r\nUncrewed systems are inherently dual-use. The collaboration targets technologies that can serve both defence and civilian needs, including border security, maritime patrol, environmental monitoring and emergency response.\r\n\r\nIt also supports innovation in autonomy, artificial intelligence and sensor fusion, with potential benefits for both military and commercial applications.\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By combining British and Turkish expertise, it supports the development of advanced systems for surveillance, strike and multi-domain operations, enhancing Europe\u2019s overall deterrence and operational edge.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","image":null,"align":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":22862},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","type":"text","text":"<h4>The common thread and strategic impact<\/h4>\r\nAlthough the products differ \u2013 from advanced unmanned aerial systems and drones to precision artillery munitions \u2013 the underlying strategic logic is the same.\r\n\r\nFaced with Turkey\u2019s exclusion from the EU\u2019s SAFE defence funding programme, Turkish companies are proactively creating localised European entities through joint ventures and direct investments. These \u201cEuropean faces\u201d deliver immediate and long-term value to host countries: high-quality jobs, technology transfer, expanded production capacity and stronger supply-chain security on European soil.\r\n\r\nIn return, Europe gains more resilient and diversified industrial bases, significantly stronger defence capabilities along its vulnerable eastern and southern flanks and faster innovation that supports both collective security and long-term economic competitiveness.\r\n\r\nBy embedding Turkish expertise within established European industrial ecosystems, these partnerships reduce strategic dependencies and build genuine interoperability.\r\n\r\nThis \u201clocal bridge\u201d model has quickly emerged as the standard route for Turkish defence expansion across Europe. It represents a pragmatic, mutually beneficial approach that not only works around political barriers, but also fosters deeper transatlantic and intra-European defence industrial cooperation \u2013 a trend likely to shape NATO and EU strategies for years to come.\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By embedding Turkish expertise within established European industrial ecosystems, these partnerships reduce strategic dependencies and build genuine interoperability.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","image":null,"align":""}],"related_authors":[{"author":22852,"position":"Early stage researcher"}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saban Ibrahim G\u00f6ksal: how Turkish defence companies are bypassing SAFE exclusion - Trialoog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Saban Ibrahim G\u00f6ksal explains how Turkish defence firms are using European partnerships to overcome SAFE exclusion and boost EU security.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/trialoog.taltech.ee\/en\/saban-ibrahim-goksal-how-turkish-defence-companies-are-bypassing-safe-exclusion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saban Ibrahim G\u00f6ksal: how Turkish defence companies are bypassing SAFE exclusion - 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