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Türkiye and Azerbaijan sign defence contracts worth over $500 million at ADEX in Baku

Turkish defence firms signed four supply contracts and one memorandum with Azerbaijan at the ADEX 2026 exhibition in Baku on 30 September, Türkiye's defence-industry chief Haluk Görgün said, putting the package at more than $500 million. TUSAŞ will deliver 14 Hürkuş-II trainers this year, Baykar sells Mızrak loitering munitions and Antidot systems, Roketsan the Barbaros coastal defence system. ASELSAN signed a memorandum on ALP-100 radars.

By CAW Staff1 October 2026
A row of folded paper planes on a drafting table, one amber plane turned out of line.

Görgün announced the package on his social-media account, APA reported from Baku, and listed the documents: a supply contract with TUSAŞ for Hürkuş aircraft, a memorandum of understanding with ASELSAN on the ALP-100 radar, supply contracts with Baykar for the Mızrak smart loitering munition and the Antidot system, and a supply contract with Roketsan for the Barbaros coastal defence system. Their total value, he said, exceeds $500 million. TRT World added the count and the timing for the aircraft: 14 Hürkuş-II trainers, to be delivered this year alongside the aircraft going to Türkiye's own air force.

"We will train our engineers together with brotherly Azerbaijan," Görgün said. "Local production and joint projects will be steps that strengthen our bonds of brotherhood."

TRT World added the count and the timing for the aircraft: 14 Hürkuş-II trainers, to be delivered this year alongside the aircraft going to Türkiye's own air force.

Local production has an address. ASELSAN and the Azerbaijani company NOVASIS have reached a preliminary agreement to set up a plant in Nakhchivan, Görgün said in the same series of posts, without naming the products or a date, APA reported at 18:43. Earlier in the day Azerbaijan's defence minister, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov, received Görgün at the Baku Expo Centre, discussed the state of joint projects and toured the ASELSAN, Baykar, Roketsan and TUSAŞ stands, the ministry said.

Görgün heads the Defence Industries Presidency, the procurement agency under the Turkish presidency, which is how TRT World and the Azerbaijani defence ministry's readout style him. APA's Azerbaijani service calls him Türkiye's defence industry minister. The documents themselves come from the companies, so the title does not change what was signed.

ADEX, in its sixth edition, is where Baku buys. The Hürkuş-II order makes Azerbaijan a launch export customer for a trainer that Turkish Aerospace is still delivering to its own air force, and the Barbaros system puts a Turkish coastal-defence battery on the Caspian.

The Nakhchivan plant is the item to follow. A factory in the exclave would be the first Turkish defence production line on Azerbaijani soil, and Görgün's wording, a preliminary agreement, leaves the investment, the product and the opening date for a later announcement.

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