{"id":4169,"date":"2025-02-25T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/dendias-opposes-meteor-missile-sale-to-turkey-in-meeting-with-british-counterpart\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:44:09","slug":"dendias-opposes-meteor-missile-sale-to-turkey-in-meeting-with-british-counterpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/dendias-opposes-meteor-missile-sale-to-turkey-in-meeting-with-british-counterpart\/","title":{"rendered":"Dendias opposes Meteor missile sale to Turkey in meeting with British counterpart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1262632\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4586018-1-320x200.jpg?v=1740510636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4586018-1.jpg?v=1740510635\" alt=\"Dendias opposes Meteor missile sale to Turkey in meeting with British counterpart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4586018-1-960x600.jpg?v=1740510636\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>[InTimeNews] <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Defense Minister Nikos Dendias expressed his opposition to the potential sale of Meteor air-to-air missiles to Turkey during a meeting with British Defense Minister John Healey in London on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dendias\u2019 visit also aimed to strengthen defense cooperation with the United Kingdom, which Athens considers to have a significant role in European defense planning following Donald Trump\u2019s recent election victory.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Kathimerini reported that Turkey had submitted a request to purchase a significant number of Meteor missiles. The missiles are produced by the European missile consortium MBDA, which is jointly owned by France\u2019s Airbus, Britain\u2019s BAE Systems, and Italy\u2019s Leonardo Finmeccanica.<\/p>\n<p>Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had previously raised the issue with French President Emmanuel Macron in early February.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Ankara may be interested in reverse-engineering Meteor missile technology to advance its domestically developed air-to-air missile.<\/p>\n<p>As Kathimerini has reported, Turkey\u2019s defense industry has been developing the Gokhan missile, which has characteristics similar to the Meteor and is currently in the testing phase. Sources indicate that the Turkish Air Force plans to equip its domestically upgraded F-16s with the Gokhan missile.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/foreign-policy\/1262632\/dendias-opposes-meteor-missiles-sale-to-turkey-in-meeting-with-british-counterpart\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[InTimeNews] Defense Minister Nikos Dendias expressed his opposition to the potential sale of Meteor air-to-air missiles to Turkey during a meeting with British Defense Minister John Healey in London on Tuesday. Dendias\u2019 visit also aimed to strengthen defense cooperation with the United Kingdom, which Athens considers to have a significant role in European defense planning &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Dendias opposes Meteor missile sale to Turkey in meeting with British counterpart\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/dendias-opposes-meteor-missile-sale-to-turkey-in-meeting-with-british-counterpart\/#more-4169\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dendias opposes Meteor missile sale to Turkey in meeting with British counterpart\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4586018-1-960x600.jpg?v=1740510636","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}