Turkey: The Troubled Acquisition of Israeli UAVs

For Turkey, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an important role in its ongoing campaign against the Kurdistan Workers' Party on both sides of the Turkish-Iraqi border — a campaign that is intensifying following the deaths of 11 Turkish soldiers at a border outpost. Yet recent tensions between Turkey and Israel may result in the withdrawal of Israeli personnel supporting Turkey’s newest UAVs, which are made by Israel Aerospace International.