Turkey buy Typhoon jets from UK

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a deal in which Turkey bought 20 Eurofighter Typhoon jets for around 10.7 billion US dollars.

Starmer met President Tayyip Recep Erdogan in Ankara to sign an agreement, which comes as Turkey seeks to leverage the advanced warplanes to make up ground with regional rivals.

Europe has increasingly turned to Turkey, NATO's second-largest military and a major exporter of armed drones, to reinforce its eastern flank and potentially backstop any future post-war stabilisation force in Ukraine.

Air attacks by Israel on Turkey's neighbours Iran and Syria, as well as on Lebanon and Qatar, have unnerved Ankara over the past year and persuaded it to revamp its defences.