Acknowledgements
This paper is a part of ‘National Defence Industry: From an Enabler of Turkiye’s Pursuit of Strategic Autonomy to a Bridge Between Turkiye and Europe’, a joint project between the Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research (CFPPR) and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). The project is supported by the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS).

Disclaimers
The views outlined in this paper are exclusively those of the authors and do not represent institutional views of the CFPPR or the IISS.

The Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research (CFPPR) aims to develop agendas and promote policies that contribute to the peaceful resolution of international and inter-communal conflicts, particularly in the regions surrounding Turkiye, through analyzing and interpreting contemporary policies from a critical, comparative, but also constructive and peace-oriented perspective. Together with All Azimuth, it provides a platform for Turkish international relations and foreign policy research conceptualizations.

The Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin is funded by Stiftung Mercator and the Federal Foreign Office. CATS is the curator of the CATS Network, an international network of think tanks and research institutions working on Turkey. ‘National Defence Industry: From an Enabler of Turkiye’s Pursuit of Strategic Autonomy to a Bridge between Turkiye and Europe’ is a project of the CATS Network.