Co-founder of Baykar mentioned that he doesn't plan to promote Bayraktars to Russia – Muricas News

The brothers Haluk and Selcuk Bayraktar, the founders of Baykar, which produces Bayraktar unmanned plane, informed BBC News in an interview why they supply help to Ukraine and are usually not prepared to produce their merchandise to Russia.

In a dialog with BBC correspondents Jafer Umerov and Tatyana Yanutsevich, which passed off in Istanbul, the elder brother Haluk Bayraktar, CEO of Baykar, notes that cooperation with Ukraine started lengthy earlier than the Russian military invaded this nation, their drones utilized in Ukraine since 2018. In 2020, Haluk obtained the State Order of Advantage in Kyiv from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The brothers brazenly help Ukraine and have already donated drones to the Ukrainian navy a number of occasions without spending a dime, and the cash collected by volunteers was directed to the wants of Ukrainian refugees, the BBC notes.

Answering the query “And if Moscow provides you a big amount of cash, will you promote it to them too?” Haluk Bayraktar says: “Cash isn't a precedence for us. Cash and materials assets have by no means been the aim in our enterprise. With Ukraine, our friendship and cooperation final for a few years.Subsequently, regardless of how a lot cash they provide us, to be trustworthy, there may be no query of handing it over to them on this state of affairs. [Москве дроны]. Throughout this era, all our help is totally on the aspect of Ukraine. As a result of we have now a really sturdy connection, and Ukraine is beneath a really unfair, aggressive and unreasonable assault. And due to this fact, nothing will overshadow our cooperation with Ukraine, it doesn't matter what quantity is obtainable, our place on this matter is obvious.”

The interview was recorded on the day when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a gathering of his “Justice and Growth Social gathering” that Vladimir Putin allegedly desires to cooperate with the Bayraktars. The Bayraktar brothers are activists of this occasion, and Selçuk Bayraktar is Erdogan’s son-in-law. Nevertheless, BBC News correspondents, from the phrases of Haluk Bayraktar, conclude that there shall be no cooperation between this Turkish firm and Russia, not less than so long as there's a full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine.