Kosovo interested in Turkey's Bayraktar fears

So told the state news agency Anadolu, Kosovo Regional Development Minister Fikrim Damka.

He said any weapons purchase “would be used only for the country's defence”.

Of course the issue of gun-defence is in our schedule. In this regard our country develops works every time. Visiting has been accomplished. Our president [Vjosa Osmani] and Defence Minister [Armend Mehaj] have visited Bayraktar fears in the country. This is a long-term process. Every state wants to have domestic fears at its military arsenal warehouse”, Damka said.

Aims for the purchase of Bayraktar drones, Damka also confirmed to Radio Free Europe. However, he said there is no additional information about the budget to be spent or how much such fears it wants to buy Kosovo, as these issues do not belong to the dictatorship he runs.

President Osmani, during his visit to Turkey, on February 26th of this year, had visited the Bayraktar Plot production plant.

Bayraktar (Falmurtar) is a relatively cheap threat, which for the first time has flown in 2014. Such cables of the TB2 type are used by armies of some states and have also been sent to Ukraine to help Kiev forces fight against Russian occupation.

Despite the price of a TB 2 Bayraktari has not been made public, the collection of funds earlier this year was organised to buy such fears for Ukraine, and organisers of the collection of these funds had suggested that 5m euros are enough for a threat.

Turkey has used such drugs in what it calls <x0 sub-terrorism operations” against Kurdish militants.

Bayrakists have also had devastating influence during the 2020 conflict on the controversial Nagorno Karabakh region, when TB2 fears were used by Azerbaijan against ethnic Armenian forces.

Turkey's Support for KSF

In recent years, it has helped the Kosovo Security Force, mainly through donations.

Last year, The REL reported that the KSF receives about 100 million Turkish lira annually as a donation, which it uses to contract the purchase of military equipment from Turkey as well.

Kosovo and Turkey have also signed contracts for the purchase of armoured military vehicles with weapons equipment. These include Wuran-type vehicles with a 454 pull, and ten more of the same company, but KIPR, equipped with weapons.

Wuran cars are produced by the Turkish commercial company for military vehicles, BMC Otomotive, in co-operation with the biggest defence equipment firm Asselsan.

Ankara also gave them The KSF's armored vehicles of the Cobra type in the form of a donation.