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Expert Explains: The Pakistan-Turkey nexus and where India stands
Pakistan has used Turkish-made drones to attack India. Turkey is Pakistan’s second largest arms supplier, and among its closest allies, which has consistently backed it on Kashmir. India has adjusted its own geopolitical partnerships to take on the Pak-Turkey nexus.
Written by Bashir Ali Abbas
New Delhi | Updated: May 10, 2025 11:43 IST
The Pakistan-Turkey nexusTurkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad in February 2025. (AP)
ON Thursday-Friday night, India repulsed a massive Pakistani drone attack on military and civilian infrastructure at 36 locations along its western border. The 300-plus Pak drones likely came from Turkey.
“A forensic examination of the drone debris is currently underway. Preliminary reports indicate that the drones are Turkish-made Asisguard Songar models,” Col Sofiya Qureshi and Wg Cdr Vyomika Singh said in a press briefing on Thursday evening.
A Turkish Ada class anti-submarine corvette docked at Karachi port on May 2, and a Turkish C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft, possibly carrying an arms shipment, landed at Karachi airport on April 27.
Turkey has claimed that these stops were routine, and that the Hercules was not carrying arms. But Turkey maintains an extensive partnership with Pakistan that is in stark contrast to its antagonistic expressions towards India, both rhetorically and substantially.
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