The delivery of A-400M military transport aircraft, which is seen as one of the biggest projects in the history of Turkish defense industry, will begin within 2009, Turkeyʼs state-run Anatolian agency reports.
Production of the aircrafts will be launched by eight European countries including Turkey. The production programmed will be completed by 2012.
Turkey, which is among the launch-customer countries, will have a total of ten A-400M from 2009 to 2021. According to the program, France will be delivered the first A-400M in 2009, and the second one will be given to Turkey in 2010.
Germany will have 60, France 50, Spain 27, Turkey 10, Britain 25, Luxembourg and Belgium will have 7 aircrafts.
Turkey had signed the partnership contract to receive A-400M in 2003.
Having both tactical and strategic capabilities, A-400M has 37 tons of load capacity, and its total range is 8695 km.
Денес 8 турски авиони ,четири - F16 и четири F-4 Phantom од 15:55 па се до 16:16 прелетувале на Фурнус.Ова е 21-пат како турците навлегуваат во гејскиот воздушен простор- пишуваат гејците.
European court fines Turkey in Greek Orthodox case
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Tue Mar 3, 2009 12:00pm EST
By Ayla Jean Yackley
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights Tuesday ruled Turkey had violated the property rights of a Greek Orthodox foundation by seizing its land and ordered the government to pay damages.
In September, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in a separate case that Turkey had violated the property rights of the patriarchate by seizing a 100-year-old orphanage on an island off of Istanbul and ordered its return.
It has also ruled that Turkey illegally took control of other properties in Istanbul owned by Greek foundations.
About 25 mostly elderly ethnic Greeks live on Bozcaada, part of a community of 2,500 Greeks in Turkey, which is 99 percent Muslim. Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, is also home to about 15,000 Jews and 60,000 Armenians.
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Judges said Turkey had breached the European Convention on Human Rights by barring the foundation from registering its title to a church and surrounding lands on the Aegean island of Bozcaada, a statement from the court said.
It is the latest ruling by the Strasbourg-based court against Turkey for violating the property rights of its ethnic Greek minority. The European Union, which Turkey seeks to join, has called on the government to return seized properties to minorities and expand their religious and cultural freedoms.
The European Court of Human Rights fined Turkey 105,000 euros ($131,880) for damages and expenses after it ruled authorities had illegally prevented the rightful owner of the Kimisis Teodoku Greek Orthodox Church from registering its property, the statement said.
The foundation was denied the right to register its title to three pieces of land and a building on the island after the state land registry was reorganized in 1991, the statement said.
Turkish courts had ruled against the foundation because it had missed an initial deadline to re-register its deed and had ordered the property be turned over to the state Treasury.
The Istanbul-based Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, spiritual leader of 250 million faithful worldwide, has filed more than two dozen cases with the European Court of Human Rights to recover some of the thousands of properties it says it has lost.
